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.
38 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
40 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
41 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
42 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
43 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
44 count of duplicate addresses.
49 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
51 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
52 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
53 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
56 Improved handling of the unread tag
58 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
59 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
60 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
61 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
62 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
63 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
64 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
66 Expanded default saved search settings
68 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
69 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
71 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
73 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
74 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
75 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
77 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
79 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
80 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
81 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
82 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
83 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
84 the variable for details.
89 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
91 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
92 Representing these independently of the database version number will
93 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
94 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
96 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
98 Previously, library users were required to call
99 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
100 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
101 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
102 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
103 too out of date for that API.
105 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
107 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
108 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
109 atomic section will be aborted.
111 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
112 notmuch_database_destroy
114 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
116 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
117 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
118 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
119 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
120 messages into the same thread.
125 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
126 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
127 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
128 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
129 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
130 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
135 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
136 from the config file. Use something like:
140 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
141 "footer": "</body></html>",
150 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
155 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
156 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
157 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
159 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
160 ===========================
165 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
167 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
169 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
171 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
172 structure for signatures changed slightly.
174 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
176 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
179 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
180 ===========================
182 This is a bug fix and portability release.
187 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
189 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
191 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
193 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
195 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
201 Use --quick when starting emacs
203 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
205 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
207 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
209 Command-Line Interface
210 ----------------------
212 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
213 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
218 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
220 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
221 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
223 Fix for phrase indexing
225 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
226 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
227 will affect only newly indexed messages.
232 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
234 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
235 unintentionally removed.
237 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
238 =========================
243 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
244 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
245 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
246 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
247 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
248 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
249 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
250 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
251 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
257 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
259 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
260 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
261 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
262 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
263 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
264 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
265 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
266 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
268 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
270 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
271 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
272 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
273 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
276 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
278 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
279 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
280 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
281 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
282 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
283 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
284 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
289 Notmuch database upgrade
291 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
292 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
293 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
294 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
295 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
296 released version of Notmuch before now.
298 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
300 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
301 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
302 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
303 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
305 Message header parsing changes
307 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
308 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
309 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
310 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
311 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
312 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
314 Command-Line Interface
315 ----------------------
317 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
319 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
321 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
323 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
325 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
327 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
328 user does not want it.
330 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
332 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
333 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
334 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
335 support formatted output.
337 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
339 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
340 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
341 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
349 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
350 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
351 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
352 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
353 `~/.emacs` with these.
355 Changed format for saved searches
357 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
358 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
359 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
360 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
363 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
364 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
365 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
366 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
368 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
369 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
370 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
372 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
373 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
374 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
375 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
376 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
378 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
380 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
381 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
382 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
384 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
386 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
387 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
388 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
389 message had been unread).
391 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
392 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
393 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
394 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
396 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
397 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
398 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
400 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
401 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
402 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
403 to tags already present.
407 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
408 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
409 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
410 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
411 these differ from each other.
412 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
414 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
416 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
417 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
418 for these Emacs versions.
420 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
422 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
423 newlines before calling notmuch count.
425 Bug fixes for sender identities
427 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
428 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
429 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
431 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
433 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
434 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
435 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
436 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
438 Reply pushes mark before signature
440 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
441 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
442 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
444 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
446 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
447 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
453 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
454 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
456 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
457 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
458 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
459 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
461 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
462 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
463 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
464 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
465 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
467 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
469 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
470 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
472 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
473 =========================
475 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
476 ---------------------------------------
478 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
479 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
480 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
481 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
482 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
483 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
484 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
488 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
489 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
491 Command-Line Interface
492 ----------------------
494 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
496 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
497 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
498 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
499 print for each message.
501 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
502 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
503 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
504 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
506 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
508 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
509 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
510 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
512 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
514 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
515 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
516 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
517 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
519 `notmuch compact` command
521 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
522 functionality through a more convenient interface than
523 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
524 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
525 move the compacted database into place.
530 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
532 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
533 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
534 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
535 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
536 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
537 and multiple threads.
541 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
543 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
544 search, show and tree mode itself)
546 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
549 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
550 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
552 Customising `notmuch-tree`
554 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
555 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
556 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
557 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
558 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
559 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
560 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
562 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
564 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
565 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
566 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
567 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
568 thread when the search was performed.
570 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
572 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
573 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
574 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
576 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
578 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
579 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
582 Built-in help improvements
584 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
585 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
586 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
588 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
590 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
591 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
592 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
594 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
596 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
597 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
599 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
601 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
602 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
603 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
604 to move some of them to the common keymap.
606 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
608 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
609 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
610 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
611 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
613 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
615 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
616 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
617 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
619 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
621 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
622 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
623 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
625 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
627 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
628 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
629 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
630 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
631 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
633 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
635 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
636 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
637 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
638 the body part of the message.
643 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
644 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
645 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
647 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
648 =========================
650 Command-Line Interface
651 ----------------------
653 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
655 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
656 folder and notmuch index.
658 `notmuch count --batch` option
660 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
661 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
663 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
665 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
666 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
667 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
670 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
672 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
673 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
674 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
675 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
676 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
679 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
681 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
682 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
684 Top level option to specify configuration file
686 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
687 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
689 Bash command-line completion
691 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
692 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
693 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
694 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
695 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
696 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
697 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
698 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
699 bash-completion package.
701 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
706 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
708 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
709 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
710 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
711 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
712 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
713 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
714 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
715 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
717 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
719 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
720 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
721 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
723 Key bindings for next/previous thread
725 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
726 previous thread in the search results.
728 Better handling of errors in search buffers
730 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
731 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
733 Faster search and show
735 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
736 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
737 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
738 threads should show faster.
742 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
743 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
744 in question was now removed from this release.
749 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
750 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
755 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
757 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
758 ===========================
763 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
765 Internal test framework changes
766 -------------------------------
768 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
771 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
772 ===========================
774 Internal test framework changes
775 -------------------------------
777 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
778 build failures in non-interactive environments.
780 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
781 =========================
786 Date range search support
788 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
789 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
790 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
791 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
792 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
795 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
797 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
798 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
799 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
800 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
801 but may be removed in a future release.
803 Command-Line Interface
804 ----------------------
806 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
808 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
809 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
811 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
813 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
814 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
815 officially deprecated.
817 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
819 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
820 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
821 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
823 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
825 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
826 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
829 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
830 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
833 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
835 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
836 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
837 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
839 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
841 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
842 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
843 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
845 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
847 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
848 output separated by null characters rather than newline
849 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
850 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
855 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
857 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
858 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
859 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
860 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
862 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
864 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
865 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
866 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
867 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
868 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
869 the behavior of this, see
870 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
871 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
873 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
874 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
875 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
877 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
879 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
880 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
883 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
885 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
886 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
887 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
888 simply displayed in place of the message.
890 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
892 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
893 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
895 Improved text/calendar content handling
897 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
898 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
899 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
900 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
902 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
904 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
905 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
906 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
907 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
909 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
911 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
912 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
913 for HTML email containing images.
915 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
917 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
919 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
921 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
924 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
926 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
927 the point where it was.
929 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
931 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
932 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
933 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
934 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
935 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
937 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
939 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
940 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
941 thread instead of the message id.
943 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
944 -----------------------------
946 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
947 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
948 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
949 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
950 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
951 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
952 further details and installation.
957 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
959 Internal test framework changes
960 -------------------------------
962 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
964 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
965 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
966 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
967 can result in buggy behavior.
969 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
970 =========================
975 Maildir tag synchronization
977 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
978 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
979 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
980 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
981 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
982 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
985 Command-Line Interface
986 ----------------------
988 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
989 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
990 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
991 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
992 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
998 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1000 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1002 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1003 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1004 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1006 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1008 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1009 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1010 span multiple lines.
1012 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1014 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1015 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1016 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1017 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1018 inside the result or message.
1020 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1022 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1023 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1025 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1026 user-specified formatting
1028 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1029 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1030 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1031 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1032 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1034 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1035 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1037 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1038 ===========================
1043 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1044 compilation error for this contrib package.
1046 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1047 ===========================
1052 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1054 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1055 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1056 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1057 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1059 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1060 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1063 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1064 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1065 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1066 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1069 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1071 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1074 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1075 =========================
1077 Command-Line Interface
1078 ----------------------
1082 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1083 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1084 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1085 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1087 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1088 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1089 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1090 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1094 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1095 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1097 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1098 tag in your query, for example:
1100 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1102 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1103 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1105 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1106 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1108 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1110 Raw show format changes
1112 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1113 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1114 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1115 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1116 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1117 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1118 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1119 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1121 Listing configuration items
1123 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1129 Changes to tagging interface
1131 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1132 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1133 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1134 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1135 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1136 for more information.
1138 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1139 may need to update in custom configurations.
1141 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1143 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1144 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1145 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1146 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1149 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1150 -----------------------------
1152 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1153 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1154 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1155 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1156 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1157 contrib/ from now on.
1162 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1163 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1165 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1166 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1168 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1169 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1170 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1172 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1173 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1175 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1176 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1177 returning the new database object or directory object.
1184 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1185 compatible with go 1.
1187 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1188 =========================
1190 Command-Line Interface
1191 ----------------------
1195 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1196 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1197 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1198 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1200 Mail store folder/file ignore
1202 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1203 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1204 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1206 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1207 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1209 Unified help and manual pages
1211 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1212 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1215 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1217 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1218 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1226 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1227 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1228 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1229 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1231 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1233 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1234 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1236 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1239 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1240 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1241 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1243 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1245 should be changed to:
1247 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1249 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1251 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1252 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1254 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1256 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1257 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1258 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1259 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1260 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1261 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1265 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1266 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1267 of Mailing List Archives.
1269 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1271 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1272 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1275 Show view archiving key binding changes
1277 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1278 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1279 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1280 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1281 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1284 Support text/calendar MIME type
1286 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1289 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1291 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1292 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1293 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1294 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1296 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1298 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1299 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1300 messages blue by default in the search view.
1304 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1305 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1312 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1315 Python bindings changes
1316 -----------------------
1318 Python 3.2 compatibility
1320 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1322 Added missing unicode conversions
1324 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1325 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1326 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1331 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1333 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1334 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1335 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1336 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1337 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1339 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1340 ===========================
1345 Fix error handling in python bindings
1347 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1348 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1349 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1350 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1352 Quote MML tags in replies
1354 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1355 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1356 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1357 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1358 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1359 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1360 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1361 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1363 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1364 =========================
1366 Command-Line Interface
1367 ----------------------
1371 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1372 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1373 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1374 importing new messages into the database.
1376 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1378 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1379 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1380 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1385 Automatic tag query optimization
1387 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1388 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1389 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1391 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1393 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1394 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1395 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1400 Reduction of memory leaks
1402 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1403 and fixed in this release.
1410 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1411 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1412 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1415 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1417 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1418 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1419 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1422 Improvements in saved search management
1424 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1425 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1426 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1428 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1430 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1431 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1432 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1434 New face for crypto parts headers
1436 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1437 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1438 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1441 Use space as default thousands separator
1443 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1444 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1445 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1447 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1448 buttonized id: links
1450 New function notmuch-show-advance
1452 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1453 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1454 be bound to SPC with:
1456 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1458 Various performance improvements
1463 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1464 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1467 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1468 ===========================
1473 Fix crash in python bindings
1475 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1476 for some, but not all users.
1478 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1479 ===========================
1484 Fix `--help` argument
1486 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1487 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1488 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1490 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1491 =========================
1493 New build and testing features
1494 ------------------------------
1496 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1497 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1498 prerequisites is improved.
1500 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1502 New command-line features
1503 -------------------------
1505 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1507 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1508 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1511 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1513 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1514 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1515 favour of using stdout.
1517 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1519 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1520 limit the number of results shown.
1522 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1524 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1525 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1528 New emacs UI features
1529 ---------------------
1531 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1533 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1534 starting with "tag:".
1536 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1538 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1539 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1541 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1543 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1545 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1547 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1548 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1553 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1555 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1557 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1558 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1559 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1560 requires a database rebuild:
1562 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1563 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1565 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1567 New collection of add-on tools
1568 ------------------------------
1570 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1571 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1572 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1575 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1577 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1578 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1579 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1581 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1582 ========================
1584 New, general features
1585 ---------------------
1587 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1589 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1590 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1591 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1592 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1593 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1600 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1601 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1603 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1607 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1608 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1609 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1612 Python bindings changes
1613 -----------------------
1615 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1617 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1618 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1619 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1620 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1621 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1622 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1624 Ruby bindings changes
1625 ---------------------
1627 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1628 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1629 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1630 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1635 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1637 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1638 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1640 Reply formatting cleanup
1641 ------------------------
1643 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1644 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1646 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1647 ========================
1649 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1651 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1652 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1653 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1654 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1657 Improved Build system portability
1659 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1660 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1661 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1663 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1665 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1667 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1669 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1670 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1671 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1673 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1674 ========================
1676 Vim interface improvements
1677 --------------------------
1679 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1681 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1682 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1683 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1684 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1685 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1687 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1689 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1690 * fix compose temp file name
1692 Python Bindings changes
1693 -----------------------
1695 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1697 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1698 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1700 Build-System improvements
1701 -------------------------
1703 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1705 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1708 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1709 ==========================
1714 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1716 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1717 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1719 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1720 =======================
1722 New, general features
1723 ---------------------
1725 Folder-based searching
1727 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1728 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1729 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1733 For example, one might use things such as:
1739 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1740 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1742 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1743 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1744 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1745 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1747 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1748 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1749 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1752 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1753 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1755 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1757 Support for PGP/MIME
1759 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1760 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1761 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1763 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1765 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1766 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1768 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1769 notmuch will receive these tags.
1771 New command-line features
1772 -------------------------
1774 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1776 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1777 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1779 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1781 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1782 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1783 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1785 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1787 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1788 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1789 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1790 which parts a signature part applies).
1792 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1794 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1795 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1796 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1797 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1798 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1801 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1803 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1804 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1805 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1806 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1807 by translating it internally to the new call.
1809 Performance improvements
1810 ------------------------
1812 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1814 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1815 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1816 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1818 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1819 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1821 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1823 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1824 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1825 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1827 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1828 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1829 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1830 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1832 Faster initial indexing
1834 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1835 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1836 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1838 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1840 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1841 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1842 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1843 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1845 New emacs-interface features
1846 ----------------------------
1848 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1850 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1851 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1852 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1853 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1854 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1855 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1857 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1859 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1860 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1861 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1862 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1864 User-selectable From address
1866 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1867 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1868 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1869 will prompt for the from address to use.
1871 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1872 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1873 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1875 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1876 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1877 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1880 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1882 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1883 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1885 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1887 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1889 ----- Original Message -----
1891 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1892 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1893 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1894 citations work much like conventional citations.
1896 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1898 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1899 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1900 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1901 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1902 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1904 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1905 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1907 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1909 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1910 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1911 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1913 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1915 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1916 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1917 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1918 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1919 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1921 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1923 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1926 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1928 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1930 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1932 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1935 Vim interface improvements
1936 --------------------------
1938 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1940 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1941 * Implementing archive in show view
1942 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1943 * Add delete commands
1946 Bindings improvements
1947 ---------------------
1949 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1951 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1952 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1954 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1956 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1960 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1961 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1962 `list(Messages)` works now
1963 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1965 These allow, for example:
1967 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1969 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1971 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1977 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1979 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1982 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1984 New build-system features
1985 -------------------------
1987 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1989 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1990 the configure script from some other directory:
1997 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1999 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2000 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2001 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2002 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2003 manual invocation of configure.
2005 New test-suite feature
2006 ----------------------
2008 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2010 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2011 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2012 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2013 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2014 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2017 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2019 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2020 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2021 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2022 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2023 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2024 are updated to take advantage of this.
2026 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2028 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2029 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2030 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2031 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2037 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2039 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2040 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2041 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2043 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2045 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2047 to:user@elsewhere.com
2049 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2051 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2053 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2055 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2056 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2057 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2060 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2061 from the Received headers in some cases
2063 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2064 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2066 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2068 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2070 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2072 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2073 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2074 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2076 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2077 -------------------------
2079 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2081 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2082 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2083 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2085 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2087 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2088 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2089 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2092 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2094 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2095 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2096 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2097 fixed to avoid this bug.
2099 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2101 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2102 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2104 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2105 ========================
2107 New, general features
2108 ---------------------
2110 Maildir-flag synchronization
2112 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2113 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2122 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2124 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2125 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2126 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2127 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2129 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2130 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2131 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2132 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2135 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2137 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2138 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2139 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2141 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2142 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2144 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2145 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2147 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2148 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2149 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2151 New library features
2152 --------------------
2154 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2156 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2157 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2158 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2159 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2161 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2162 message with the new function:
2164 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2166 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2167 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2168 over all available filenames for a given message.
2170 New command-line features
2171 -------------------------
2173 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2175 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2176 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2177 access to the mail store itself.
2179 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2180 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2181 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2182 name of a script containing:
2184 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2186 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2187 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2193 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2195 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2197 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2199 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2200 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2201 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2202 now produces nothing).
2204 Emacs interface improvements
2205 ----------------------------
2207 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2209 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2211 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2213 Display current thread subject in a header line
2215 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2217 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2219 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2220 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2221 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2222 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2223 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2224 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2225 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2227 Vim interface improvements
2228 --------------------------
2230 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2232 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2233 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2239 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2241 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2242 ========================
2244 New command-line features
2245 -------------------------
2247 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2249 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2250 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2251 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2253 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2254 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2255 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2256 scripts. For example:
2258 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2259 <operations-on> "$file"
2262 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2264 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2265 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2266 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2267 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2268 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2269 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2271 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2273 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2274 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2275 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2276 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2278 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2280 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2281 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2282 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2283 default rather than Bcc.
2285 New library features
2286 --------------------
2288 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2290 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2291 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2296 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2298 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2299 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2300 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2301 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2302 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2303 notmuch customize interface.
2305 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2307 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2308 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2309 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2310 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2312 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2314 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2315 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2316 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2317 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2319 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2321 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2322 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2323 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2324 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2325 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2326 notmuch customize interface.
2328 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2330 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2331 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2332 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2333 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2334 notmuch customize interface.
2336 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2338 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2339 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2340 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2341 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2344 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2346 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2347 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2348 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2351 New build-system features
2352 -------------------------
2354 Various portability fixes have been applied
2356 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2357 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2358 more portable than ever before.
2360 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2362 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2363 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2364 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2366 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2367 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2368 automatically run ldconfig.
2370 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2371 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2372 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2374 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2375 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2376 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2377 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2379 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2381 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2382 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2383 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2384 used in the resulting Makefile.
2386 New test-suite features
2387 -----------------------
2389 New modularization of test suite
2391 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2392 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2393 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2394 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2395 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2396 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2397 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2398 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2400 New testing of emacs interface
2402 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2403 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2404 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2405 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2406 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2407 database via the FCC setting.
2412 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2414 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2415 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2416 persistent error of the form:
2418 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2420 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2421 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2423 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2425 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2426 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2427 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2429 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2431 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2432 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2433 parsing the notmuch results).
2435 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2437 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2440 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2441 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2442 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2447 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2449 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2450 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2451 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2452 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2453 the emacs interface.
2455 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2457 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2458 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2459 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2461 Python-binding fixes
2462 --------------------
2464 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2466 Debian-specific fixes
2467 ---------------------
2469 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2471 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2472 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2473 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2476 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2477 ==========================
2482 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2484 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2485 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2486 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2487 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2489 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2491 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2492 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2493 want notmuch to crash.
2498 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2500 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2501 directory does not exist
2506 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2508 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2509 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2511 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2512 ========================
2514 New command-line features
2515 -------------------------
2517 User-configurable tags for new messages
2519 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2520 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2521 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2522 to specify this value.
2524 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2526 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2527 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2528 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2530 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2532 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2533 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2535 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2537 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2538 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2539 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2540 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2541 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2544 Indication of author names that match a search
2546 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2547 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2548 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2549 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2550 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2551 messages in the thread are listed first.
2553 New: Python bindings
2554 --------------------
2556 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2557 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2558 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2559 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2561 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2562 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2563 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2566 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2567 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2568 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2570 Emacs interface improvements
2571 ----------------------------
2573 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2575 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2576 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2577 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2578 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2579 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2580 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2581 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2582 but without any of the disadvantages).
2584 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2585 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2586 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2589 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2590 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2591 instead running something like:
2593 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2595 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2596 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2597 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2600 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2602 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2603 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2604 tweaked by the user.
2606 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2607 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2608 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2611 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2612 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2613 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2616 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2618 This support currently relies on an external program,
2619 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2620 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2621 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2622 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2623 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2626 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2627 notmuch) is available via:
2629 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2631 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2632 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2633 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2635 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2637 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2638 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2639 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2640 making this automatic in a future release.
2642 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2644 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2645 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2646 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2647 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2648 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2649 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2652 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2654 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2655 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2656 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2658 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2660 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2661 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2662 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2664 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2665 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2666 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2667 other representation.
2669 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2670 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2673 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2675 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2676 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2677 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2679 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2680 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2681 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2683 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2685 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2686 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2687 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2688 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2689 to display the search result.
2691 More flexible handling of header visibility
2693 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2694 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2695 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2696 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2697 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2698 with the 'h' keybinding.
2700 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2701 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2702 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2704 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2706 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2708 Customizable formatting of search results
2710 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2711 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2712 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2714 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2716 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2718 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2723 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2725 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2726 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2727 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2728 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2734 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2736 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2737 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2739 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2741 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2742 accept are now all accepted.
2747 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2749 Better display of output from failed tests
2751 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2752 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2754 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2755 ========================
2757 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2758 detailed release notes this time!
2760 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2761 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2763 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2764 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2765 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2766 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2773 Better guessing of From: header
2775 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2776 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2777 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2778 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2779 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2782 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2784 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2785 guaranteed to match all messages.
2787 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2789 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2790 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2791 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2792 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2793 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2796 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2799 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2800 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2801 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2802 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2807 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2809 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2810 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2811 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2812 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2814 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2816 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2818 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2819 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2820 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2822 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2824 Previously, the user might see:
2826 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2830 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2832 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2833 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2834 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2835 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2837 Emacs client features
2838 ---------------------
2840 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2842 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2843 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2844 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2845 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2846 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2848 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2851 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2852 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2853 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2854 search with the '*' binding.
2856 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2858 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2859 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2862 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2864 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2865 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2866 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2868 Build-system features
2869 ---------------------
2871 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2873 Add support to configure for many standard options
2875 We include actual support for:
2877 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2879 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2881 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2882 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2884 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2885 separate "make install-emacs"
2887 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2889 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2890 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2891 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2893 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2896 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2897 ========================
2899 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2901 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2902 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2904 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2905 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2906 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2907 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2908 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2909 tags from messages in a thread.
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