1 Notmuch 0.19~rc2 (2014-11-09)
2 =============================
7 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
9 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
10 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
11 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
12 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
13 script callers should still check the return value.
15 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
17 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
18 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
19 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
20 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
21 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
22 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
23 and returning success even if indexing fails).
25 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
27 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
28 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
29 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
31 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
33 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
34 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
35 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
36 have at least `N` files associated with them.
41 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
43 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
44 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
45 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
48 Expanded default saved search settings
50 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
51 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
53 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
55 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
56 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
57 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
62 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
64 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
65 Representing these independently of the database version number will
66 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
67 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
69 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
71 Previously, library users were required to call
72 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
73 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
74 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
75 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
76 too out of date for that API.
78 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
80 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
81 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
82 atomic section will be aborted.
84 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
85 notmuch_database_destroy
87 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
89 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
90 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
91 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
92 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
93 messages into the same thread.
98 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
99 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
100 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
101 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
102 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
103 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
108 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
109 from the config file. Use something like:
113 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
114 "footer": "</body></html>",
123 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
128 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
129 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
130 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
132 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
133 ===========================
138 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
140 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
142 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
144 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
145 structure for signatures changed slightly.
147 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
149 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
152 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
153 ===========================
155 This is a bug fix and portability release.
160 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
162 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
164 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
166 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
168 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
174 Use --quick when starting emacs
176 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
178 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
180 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
182 Command-Line Interface
183 ----------------------
185 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
186 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
191 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
193 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
194 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
196 Fix for phrase indexing
198 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
199 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
200 will affect only newly indexed messages.
205 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
207 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
208 unintentionally removed.
210 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
211 =========================
216 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
217 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
218 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
219 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
220 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
221 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
222 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
223 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
224 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
230 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
232 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
233 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
234 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
235 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
236 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
237 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
238 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
239 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
241 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
243 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
244 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
245 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
246 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
249 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
251 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
252 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
253 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
254 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
255 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
256 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
257 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
262 Notmuch database upgrade
264 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
265 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
266 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
267 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
268 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
269 released version of Notmuch before now.
271 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
273 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
274 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
275 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
276 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
278 Message header parsing changes
280 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
281 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
282 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
283 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
284 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
285 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
287 Command-Line Interface
288 ----------------------
290 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
292 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
294 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
296 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
298 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
300 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
301 user does not want it.
303 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
305 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
306 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
307 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
308 support formatted output.
310 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
312 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
313 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
314 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
322 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
323 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
324 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
325 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
326 `~/.emacs` with these.
328 Changed format for saved searches
330 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
331 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
332 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
333 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
336 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
337 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
338 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
339 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
341 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
342 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
343 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
345 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
346 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
347 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
348 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
349 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
351 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
353 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
354 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
355 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
357 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
359 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
360 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
361 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
362 message had been unread).
364 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
365 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
366 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
367 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
369 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
370 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
371 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
373 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
374 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
375 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
376 to tags already present.
380 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
381 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
382 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
383 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
384 these differ from each other.
385 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
387 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
389 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
390 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
391 for these Emacs versions.
393 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
395 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
396 newlines before calling notmuch count.
398 Bug fixes for sender identities
400 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
401 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
402 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
404 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
406 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
407 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
408 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
409 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
411 Reply pushes mark before signature
413 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
414 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
415 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
417 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
419 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
420 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
426 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
427 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
429 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
430 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
431 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
432 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
434 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
435 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
436 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
437 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
438 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
440 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
442 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
443 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
445 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
446 =========================
448 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
449 ---------------------------------------
451 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
452 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
453 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
454 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
455 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
456 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
457 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
461 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
462 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
464 Command-Line Interface
465 ----------------------
467 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
469 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
470 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
471 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
472 print for each message.
474 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
475 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
476 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
477 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
479 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
481 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
482 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
483 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
485 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
487 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
488 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
489 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
490 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
492 `notmuch compact` command
494 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
495 functionality through a more convenient interface than
496 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
497 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
498 move the compacted database into place.
503 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
505 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
506 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
507 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
508 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
509 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
510 and multiple threads.
514 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
516 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
517 search, show and tree mode itself)
519 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
522 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
523 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
525 Customising `notmuch-tree`
527 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
528 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
529 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
530 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
531 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
532 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
533 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
535 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
537 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
538 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
539 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
540 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
541 thread when the search was performed.
543 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
545 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
546 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
547 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
549 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
551 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
552 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
555 Built-in help improvements
557 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
558 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
559 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
561 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
563 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
564 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
565 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
567 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
569 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
570 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
572 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
574 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
575 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
576 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
577 to move some of them to the common keymap.
579 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
581 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
582 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
583 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
584 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
586 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
588 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
589 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
590 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
592 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
594 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
595 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
596 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
598 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
600 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
601 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
602 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
603 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
604 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
606 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
608 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
609 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
610 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
611 the body part of the message.
616 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
617 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
618 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
620 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
621 =========================
623 Command-Line Interface
624 ----------------------
626 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
628 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
629 folder and notmuch index.
631 `notmuch count --batch` option
633 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
634 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
636 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
638 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
639 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
640 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
643 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
645 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
646 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
647 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
648 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
649 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
652 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
654 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
655 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
657 Top level option to specify configuration file
659 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
660 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
662 Bash command-line completion
664 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
665 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
666 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
667 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
668 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
669 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
670 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
671 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
672 bash-completion package.
674 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
679 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
681 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
682 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
683 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
684 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
685 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
686 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
687 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
688 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
690 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
692 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
693 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
694 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
696 Key bindings for next/previous thread
698 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
699 previous thread in the search results.
701 Better handling of errors in search buffers
703 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
704 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
706 Faster search and show
708 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
709 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
710 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
711 threads should show faster.
715 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
716 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
717 in question was now removed from this release.
722 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
723 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
728 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
730 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
731 ===========================
736 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
738 Internal test framework changes
739 -------------------------------
741 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
744 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
745 ===========================
747 Internal test framework changes
748 -------------------------------
750 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
751 build failures in non-interactive environments.
753 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
754 =========================
759 Date range search support
761 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
762 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
763 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
764 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
765 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
768 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
770 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
771 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
772 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
773 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
774 but may be removed in a future release.
776 Command-Line Interface
777 ----------------------
779 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
781 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
782 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
784 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
786 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
787 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
788 officially deprecated.
790 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
792 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
793 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
794 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
796 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
798 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
799 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
802 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
803 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
806 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
808 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
809 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
810 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
812 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
814 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
815 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
816 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
818 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
820 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
821 output separated by null characters rather than newline
822 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
823 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
828 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
830 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
831 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
832 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
833 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
835 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
837 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
838 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
839 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
840 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
841 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
842 the behavior of this, see
843 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
844 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
846 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
847 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
848 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
850 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
852 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
853 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
856 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
858 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
859 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
860 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
861 simply displayed in place of the message.
863 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
865 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
866 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
868 Improved text/calendar content handling
870 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
871 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
872 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
873 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
875 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
877 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
878 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
879 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
880 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
882 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
884 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
885 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
886 for HTML email containing images.
888 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
890 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
892 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
894 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
897 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
899 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
900 the point where it was.
902 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
904 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
905 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
906 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
907 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
908 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
910 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
912 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
913 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
914 thread instead of the message id.
916 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
917 -----------------------------
919 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
920 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
921 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
922 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
923 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
924 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
925 further details and installation.
930 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
932 Internal test framework changes
933 -------------------------------
935 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
937 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
938 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
939 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
940 can result in buggy behavior.
942 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
943 =========================
948 Maildir tag synchronization
950 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
951 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
952 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
953 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
954 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
955 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
958 Command-Line Interface
959 ----------------------
961 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
962 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
963 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
964 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
965 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
971 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
973 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
975 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
976 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
977 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
979 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
981 It is now possible to embed newlines in
982 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
985 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
987 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
988 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
989 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
990 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
991 inside the result or message.
993 Search now uses the JSON format internally
995 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
996 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
998 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
999 user-specified formatting
1001 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1002 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1003 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1004 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1005 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1007 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1008 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1010 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1011 ===========================
1016 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1017 compilation error for this contrib package.
1019 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1020 ===========================
1025 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1027 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1028 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1029 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1030 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1032 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1033 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1036 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1037 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1038 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1039 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1042 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1044 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1047 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1048 =========================
1050 Command-Line Interface
1051 ----------------------
1055 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1056 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1057 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1058 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1060 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1061 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1062 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1063 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1067 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1068 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1070 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1071 tag in your query, for example:
1073 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1075 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1076 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1078 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1079 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1081 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1083 Raw show format changes
1085 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1086 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1087 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1088 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1089 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1090 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1091 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1092 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1094 Listing configuration items
1096 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1102 Changes to tagging interface
1104 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1105 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1106 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1107 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1108 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1109 for more information.
1111 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1112 may need to update in custom configurations.
1114 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1116 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1117 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1118 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1119 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1122 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1123 -----------------------------
1125 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1126 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1127 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1128 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1129 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1130 contrib/ from now on.
1135 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1136 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1138 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1139 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1141 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1142 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1143 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1145 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1146 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1148 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1149 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1150 returning the new database object or directory object.
1157 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1158 compatible with go 1.
1160 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1161 =========================
1163 Command-Line Interface
1164 ----------------------
1168 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1169 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1170 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1171 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1173 Mail store folder/file ignore
1175 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1176 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1177 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1179 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1180 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1182 Unified help and manual pages
1184 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1185 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1188 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1190 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1191 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1199 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1200 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1201 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1202 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1204 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1206 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1207 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1209 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1212 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1213 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1214 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1216 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1218 should be changed to:
1220 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1222 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1224 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1225 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1227 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1229 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1230 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1231 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1232 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1233 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1234 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1238 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1239 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1240 of Mailing List Archives.
1242 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1244 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1245 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1248 Show view archiving key binding changes
1250 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1251 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1252 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1253 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1254 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1257 Support text/calendar MIME type
1259 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1262 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1264 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1265 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1266 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1267 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1269 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1271 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1272 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1273 messages blue by default in the search view.
1277 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1278 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1285 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1288 Python bindings changes
1289 -----------------------
1291 Python 3.2 compatibility
1293 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1295 Added missing unicode conversions
1297 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1298 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1299 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1304 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1306 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1307 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1308 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1309 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1310 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1312 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1313 ===========================
1318 Fix error handling in python bindings
1320 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1321 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1322 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1323 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1325 Quote MML tags in replies
1327 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1328 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1329 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1330 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1331 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1332 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1333 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1334 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1336 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1337 =========================
1339 Command-Line Interface
1340 ----------------------
1344 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1345 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1346 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1347 importing new messages into the database.
1349 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1351 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1352 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1353 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1358 Automatic tag query optimization
1360 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1361 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1362 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1364 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1366 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1367 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1368 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1373 Reduction of memory leaks
1375 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1376 and fixed in this release.
1383 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1384 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1385 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1388 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1390 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1391 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1392 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1395 Improvements in saved search management
1397 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1398 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1399 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1401 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1403 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1404 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1405 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1407 New face for crypto parts headers
1409 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1410 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1411 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1414 Use space as default thousands separator
1416 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1417 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1418 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1420 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1421 buttonized id: links
1423 New function notmuch-show-advance
1425 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1426 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1427 be bound to SPC with:
1429 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1431 Various performance improvements
1436 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1437 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1440 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1441 ===========================
1446 Fix crash in python bindings
1448 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1449 for some, but not all users.
1451 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1452 ===========================
1457 Fix `--help` argument
1459 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1460 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1461 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1463 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1464 =========================
1466 New build and testing features
1467 ------------------------------
1469 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1470 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1471 prerequisites is improved.
1473 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1475 New command-line features
1476 -------------------------
1478 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1480 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1481 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1484 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1486 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1487 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1488 favour of using stdout.
1490 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1492 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1493 limit the number of results shown.
1495 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1497 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1498 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1501 New emacs UI features
1502 ---------------------
1504 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1506 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1507 starting with "tag:".
1509 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1511 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1512 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1514 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1516 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1518 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1520 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1521 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1526 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1528 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1530 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1531 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1532 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1533 requires a database rebuild:
1535 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1536 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1538 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1540 New collection of add-on tools
1541 ------------------------------
1543 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1544 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1545 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1548 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1550 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1551 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1552 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1554 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1555 ========================
1557 New, general features
1558 ---------------------
1560 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1562 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1563 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1564 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1565 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1566 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1573 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1574 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1576 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1580 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1581 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1582 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1585 Python bindings changes
1586 -----------------------
1588 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1590 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1591 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1592 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1593 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1594 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1595 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1597 Ruby bindings changes
1598 ---------------------
1600 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1601 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1602 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1603 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1608 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1610 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1611 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1613 Reply formatting cleanup
1614 ------------------------
1616 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1617 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1619 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1620 ========================
1622 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1624 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1625 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1626 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1627 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1630 Improved Build system portability
1632 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1633 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1634 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1636 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1638 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1640 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1642 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1643 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1644 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1646 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1647 ========================
1649 Vim interface improvements
1650 --------------------------
1652 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1654 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1655 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1656 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1657 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1658 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1660 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1662 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1663 * fix compose temp file name
1665 Python Bindings changes
1666 -----------------------
1668 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1670 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1671 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1673 Build-System improvements
1674 -------------------------
1676 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1678 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1681 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1682 ==========================
1687 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1689 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1690 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1692 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1693 =======================
1695 New, general features
1696 ---------------------
1698 Folder-based searching
1700 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1701 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1702 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1706 For example, one might use things such as:
1712 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1713 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1715 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1716 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1717 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1718 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1720 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1721 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1722 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1725 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1726 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1728 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1730 Support for PGP/MIME
1732 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1733 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1734 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1736 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1738 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1739 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1741 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1742 notmuch will receive these tags.
1744 New command-line features
1745 -------------------------
1747 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1749 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1750 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1752 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1754 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1755 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1756 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1758 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1760 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1761 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1762 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1763 which parts a signature part applies).
1765 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1767 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1768 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1769 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1770 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1771 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1774 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1776 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1777 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1778 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1779 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1780 by translating it internally to the new call.
1782 Performance improvements
1783 ------------------------
1785 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1787 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1788 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1789 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1791 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1792 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1794 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1796 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1797 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1798 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1800 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1801 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1802 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1803 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1805 Faster initial indexing
1807 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1808 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1809 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1811 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1813 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1814 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1815 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1816 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1818 New emacs-interface features
1819 ----------------------------
1821 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1823 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1824 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1825 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1826 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1827 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1828 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1830 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1832 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1833 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1834 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1835 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1837 User-selectable From address
1839 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1840 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1841 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1842 will prompt for the from address to use.
1844 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1845 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1846 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1848 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1849 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1850 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1853 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1855 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1856 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1858 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1860 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1862 ----- Original Message -----
1864 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1865 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1866 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1867 citations work much like conventional citations.
1869 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1871 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1872 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1873 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1874 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1875 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1877 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1878 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1880 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1882 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1883 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1884 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1886 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1888 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1889 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1890 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1891 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1892 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1894 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1896 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1899 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1901 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1903 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1905 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1908 Vim interface improvements
1909 --------------------------
1911 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1913 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1914 * Implementing archive in show view
1915 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1916 * Add delete commands
1919 Bindings improvements
1920 ---------------------
1922 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1924 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1925 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1927 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1929 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1933 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1934 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1935 `list(Messages)` works now
1936 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1938 These allow, for example:
1940 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1942 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1944 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1950 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1952 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1955 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1957 New build-system features
1958 -------------------------
1960 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1962 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1963 the configure script from some other directory:
1970 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1972 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1973 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1974 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1975 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1976 manual invocation of configure.
1978 New test-suite feature
1979 ----------------------
1981 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1983 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1984 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1985 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1986 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1987 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1990 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
1992 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
1993 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
1994 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
1995 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
1996 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
1997 are updated to take advantage of this.
1999 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2001 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2002 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2003 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2004 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2010 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2012 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2013 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2014 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2016 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2018 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2020 to:user@elsewhere.com
2022 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2024 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2026 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2028 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2029 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2030 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2033 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2034 from the Received headers in some cases
2036 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2037 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2039 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2041 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2043 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2045 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2046 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2047 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2049 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2050 -------------------------
2052 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2054 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2055 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2056 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2058 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2060 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2061 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2062 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2065 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2067 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2068 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2069 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2070 fixed to avoid this bug.
2072 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2074 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2075 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2077 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2078 ========================
2080 New, general features
2081 ---------------------
2083 Maildir-flag synchronization
2085 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2086 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2095 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2097 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2098 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2099 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2100 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2102 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2103 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2104 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2105 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2108 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2110 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2111 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2112 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2114 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2115 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2117 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2118 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2120 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2121 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2122 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2124 New library features
2125 --------------------
2127 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2129 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2130 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2131 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2132 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2134 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2135 message with the new function:
2137 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2139 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2140 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2141 over all available filenames for a given message.
2143 New command-line features
2144 -------------------------
2146 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2148 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2149 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2150 access to the mail store itself.
2152 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2153 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2154 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2155 name of a script containing:
2157 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2159 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2160 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2166 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2168 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2170 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2172 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2173 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2174 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2175 now produces nothing).
2177 Emacs interface improvements
2178 ----------------------------
2180 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2182 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2184 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2186 Display current thread subject in a header line
2188 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2190 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2192 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2193 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2194 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2195 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2196 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2197 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2198 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2200 Vim interface improvements
2201 --------------------------
2203 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2205 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2206 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2212 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2214 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2215 ========================
2217 New command-line features
2218 -------------------------
2220 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2222 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2223 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2224 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2226 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2227 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2228 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2229 scripts. For example:
2231 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2232 <operations-on> "$file"
2235 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2237 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2238 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2239 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2240 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2241 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2242 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2244 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2246 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2247 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2248 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2249 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2251 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2253 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2254 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2255 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2256 default rather than Bcc.
2258 New library features
2259 --------------------
2261 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2263 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2264 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2269 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2271 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2272 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2273 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2274 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2275 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2276 notmuch customize interface.
2278 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2280 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2281 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2282 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2283 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2285 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2287 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2288 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2289 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2290 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2292 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2294 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2295 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2296 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2297 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2298 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2299 notmuch customize interface.
2301 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2303 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2304 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2305 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2306 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2307 notmuch customize interface.
2309 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2311 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2312 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2313 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2314 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2317 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2319 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2320 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2321 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2324 New build-system features
2325 -------------------------
2327 Various portability fixes have been applied
2329 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2330 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2331 more portable than ever before.
2333 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2335 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2336 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2337 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2339 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2340 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2341 automatically run ldconfig.
2343 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2344 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2345 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2347 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2348 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2349 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2350 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2352 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2354 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2355 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2356 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2357 used in the resulting Makefile.
2359 New test-suite features
2360 -----------------------
2362 New modularization of test suite
2364 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2365 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2366 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2367 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2368 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2369 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2370 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2371 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2373 New testing of emacs interface
2375 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2376 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2377 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2378 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2379 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2380 database via the FCC setting.
2385 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2387 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2388 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2389 persistent error of the form:
2391 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2393 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2394 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2396 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2398 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2399 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2400 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2402 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2404 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2405 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2406 parsing the notmuch results).
2408 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2410 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2413 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2414 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2415 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2420 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2422 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2423 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2424 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2425 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2426 the emacs interface.
2428 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2430 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2431 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2432 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2434 Python-binding fixes
2435 --------------------
2437 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2439 Debian-specific fixes
2440 ---------------------
2442 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2444 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2445 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2446 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2449 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2450 ==========================
2455 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2457 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2458 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2459 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2460 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2462 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2464 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2465 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2466 want notmuch to crash.
2471 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2473 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2474 directory does not exist
2479 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2481 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2482 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2484 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2485 ========================
2487 New command-line features
2488 -------------------------
2490 User-configurable tags for new messages
2492 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2493 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2494 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2495 to specify this value.
2497 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2499 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2500 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2501 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2503 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2505 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2506 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2508 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2510 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2511 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2512 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2513 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2514 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2517 Indication of author names that match a search
2519 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2520 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2521 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2522 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2523 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2524 messages in the thread are listed first.
2526 New: Python bindings
2527 --------------------
2529 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2530 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2531 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2532 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2534 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2535 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2536 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2539 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2540 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2541 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2543 Emacs interface improvements
2544 ----------------------------
2546 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2548 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2549 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2550 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2551 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2552 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2553 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2554 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2555 but without any of the disadvantages).
2557 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2558 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2559 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2562 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2563 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2564 instead running something like:
2566 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2568 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2569 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2570 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2573 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2575 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2576 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2577 tweaked by the user.
2579 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2580 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2581 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2584 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2585 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2586 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2589 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2591 This support currently relies on an external program,
2592 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2593 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2594 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2595 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2596 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2599 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2600 notmuch) is available via:
2602 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2604 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2605 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2606 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2608 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2610 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2611 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2612 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2613 making this automatic in a future release.
2615 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2617 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2618 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2619 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2620 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2621 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2622 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2625 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2627 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2628 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2629 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2631 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2633 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2634 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2635 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2637 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2638 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2639 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2640 other representation.
2642 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2643 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2646 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2648 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2649 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2650 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2652 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2653 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2654 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2656 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2658 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2659 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2660 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2661 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2662 to display the search result.
2664 More flexible handling of header visibility
2666 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2667 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2668 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2669 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2670 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2671 with the 'h' keybinding.
2673 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2674 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2675 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2677 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2679 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2681 Customizable formatting of search results
2683 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2684 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2685 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2687 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2689 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2691 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2696 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2698 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2699 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2700 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2701 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2707 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2709 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2710 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2712 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2714 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2715 accept are now all accepted.
2720 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2722 Better display of output from failed tests
2724 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2725 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2727 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2728 ========================
2730 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2731 detailed release notes this time!
2733 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2734 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2736 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2737 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2738 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2739 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2746 Better guessing of From: header
2748 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2749 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2750 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2751 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2752 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2755 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2757 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2758 guaranteed to match all messages.
2760 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2762 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2763 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2764 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2765 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2766 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2769 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2772 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2773 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2774 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2775 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2780 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2782 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2783 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2784 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2785 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2787 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2789 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2791 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2792 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2793 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2795 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2797 Previously, the user might see:
2799 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2803 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2805 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2806 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2807 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2808 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2810 Emacs client features
2811 ---------------------
2813 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2815 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2816 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2817 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2818 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2819 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2821 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2824 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2825 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2826 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2827 search with the '*' binding.
2829 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2831 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2832 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2835 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2837 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2838 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2839 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2841 Build-system features
2842 ---------------------
2844 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2846 Add support to configure for many standard options
2848 We include actual support for:
2850 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2852 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2854 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2855 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2857 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2858 separate "make install-emacs"
2860 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2862 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2863 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2864 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2866 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2869 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2870 ========================
2872 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2874 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2875 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2877 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2878 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2879 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2880 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2881 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2882 tags from messages in a thread.
2889 indent-tabs-mode: nil