1 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
2 ===========================
7 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
9 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
14 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
19 Use `env` to locate perl.
24 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
26 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
28 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
30 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
32 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
33 =========================
40 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
41 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
43 Limited support for S/MIME messages
45 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
46 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
47 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
52 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
53 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
54 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
56 Command Line Interface
57 ----------------------
59 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
61 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
66 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
71 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
73 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
74 parts are now included in replies.
76 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
77 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
78 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
79 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
81 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
83 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
85 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
87 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
88 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
89 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
90 forwards only the current message.
92 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
94 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
95 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
96 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
97 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
98 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
99 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
100 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
101 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
104 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
105 longer generate empty buffers
107 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
108 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
109 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
110 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
111 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
113 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
115 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
118 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
120 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
123 Address completion improvements
125 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
126 you previously configured one, customize the variable
127 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
128 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
129 interactive address completion.
131 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
133 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
134 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
135 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
140 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
141 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
142 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
148 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
149 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
150 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
151 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
152 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
153 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
155 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
156 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
157 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
158 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
159 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
160 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
162 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
163 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
165 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
166 =========================
171 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
174 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
176 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
177 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
178 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
180 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
181 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
183 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
184 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
185 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
187 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
189 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
190 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
191 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
192 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
193 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
194 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
199 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
200 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
203 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
206 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
208 Command Line Interface
209 ----------------------
211 Database revision tracking
213 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
214 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
215 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
216 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
218 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
220 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
221 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
222 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
223 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
224 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
225 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
226 manual page for further information.
231 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
233 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
234 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
236 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
238 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
239 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
240 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
242 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
244 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
246 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
247 customization as well.
249 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
251 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
253 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
255 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
257 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
258 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
259 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
260 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
262 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
264 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
265 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
266 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
267 this variable to 10000.
272 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
273 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
275 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
277 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
278 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
279 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
280 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
281 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
282 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
283 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
284 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
285 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
288 Database revision tracking
290 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
291 query parser and the new function
292 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
294 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
298 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
299 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
300 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
301 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
306 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
308 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
309 ===========================
314 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
316 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
317 ===========================
322 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
324 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
325 =========================
327 Command-Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
332 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
333 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
334 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
336 Path to gpg is now configurable
338 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
339 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
344 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
346 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
351 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
356 Support messages without Message-IDs.
361 Undeprecate single message mboxes
363 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
364 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
366 New error logging facility
368 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
369 output formerly printed to stderr.
371 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
373 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
375 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
377 Fix for rounding of seconds
382 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
384 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
385 docmumentation has been removed.
387 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
389 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
390 some material from the relicensed wiki.
395 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
396 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
397 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
402 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
403 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
404 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
405 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
406 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
407 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
410 git checkout config origin/config
412 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
414 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
415 =========================
420 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
421 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
422 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
423 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
424 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
425 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
426 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
428 Command-Line Interface
429 ----------------------
431 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
433 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
434 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
435 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
436 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
437 script callers should still check the return value.
439 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
441 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
442 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
443 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
444 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
445 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
446 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
447 and returning success even if indexing fails).
449 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
451 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
452 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
453 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
455 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
457 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
458 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
459 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
460 currently unmaintained.
462 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
464 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
465 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
466 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
467 have at least `N` files associated with them.
469 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
471 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
472 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
473 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
474 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
475 count of duplicate addresses.
480 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
482 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
483 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
484 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
487 Improved handling of the unread tag
489 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
490 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
491 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
492 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
493 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
494 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
495 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
497 Expanded default saved search settings
499 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
500 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
502 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
504 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
505 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
506 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
508 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
510 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
511 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
512 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
513 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
514 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
515 the variable for details.
520 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
522 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
523 Representing these independently of the database version number will
524 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
525 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
527 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
529 Previously, library users were required to call
530 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
531 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
532 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
533 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
534 too out of date for that API.
536 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
538 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
539 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
540 atomic section will be aborted.
542 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
543 `notmuch_database_destroy`
545 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
547 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
548 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
549 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
550 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
551 messages into the same thread.
556 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
557 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
558 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
559 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
560 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
561 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
566 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
567 from the config file. Use something like:
571 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
572 "footer": "</body></html>",
581 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
586 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
587 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
588 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
590 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
591 ===========================
596 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
598 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
600 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
602 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
603 structure for signatures changed slightly.
605 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
607 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
610 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
611 ===========================
613 This is a bug fix and portability release.
618 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
620 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
622 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
624 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
626 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
632 Use --quick when starting emacs
634 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
636 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
638 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
640 Command-Line Interface
641 ----------------------
643 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
644 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
649 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
651 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
652 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
654 Fix for phrase indexing
656 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
657 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
658 will affect only newly indexed messages.
663 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
665 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
666 unintentionally removed.
668 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
669 =========================
674 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
675 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
676 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
677 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
678 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
679 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
680 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
681 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
682 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
688 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
690 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
691 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
692 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
693 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
694 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
695 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
696 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
697 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
699 There is a new `path:` search prefix
701 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
702 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
703 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
704 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
707 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
709 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
710 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
711 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
712 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
713 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
714 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
715 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
720 Notmuch database upgrade
722 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
723 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
724 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
725 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
726 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
727 released version of Notmuch before now.
729 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
731 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
732 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
733 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
734 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
736 Message header parsing changes
738 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
739 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
740 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
741 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
742 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
743 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
745 Command-Line Interface
746 ----------------------
748 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
750 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
752 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
754 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
756 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
758 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
759 user does not want it.
761 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
763 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
764 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
765 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
766 support formatted output.
768 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
770 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
771 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
772 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
780 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
781 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
782 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
783 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
784 `~/.emacs` with these.
786 Changed format for saved searches
788 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
789 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
790 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
791 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
794 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
795 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
796 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
797 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
799 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
800 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
801 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
803 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
804 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
805 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
806 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
807 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
809 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
811 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
812 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
813 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
815 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
817 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
818 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
819 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
820 message had been unread).
822 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
823 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
824 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
825 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
827 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
828 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
829 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
831 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
832 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
833 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
834 to tags already present.
838 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
839 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
840 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
841 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
842 these differ from each other.
843 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
845 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
847 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
848 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
849 for these Emacs versions.
851 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
853 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
854 newlines before calling notmuch count.
856 Bug fixes for sender identities
858 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
859 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
860 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
862 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
864 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
865 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
866 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
867 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
869 Reply pushes mark before signature
871 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
872 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
873 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
875 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
877 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
878 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
884 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
885 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
887 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
888 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
889 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
890 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
892 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
893 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
894 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
895 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
896 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
898 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
900 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
901 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
903 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
904 =========================
906 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
907 ---------------------------------------
909 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
910 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
911 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
912 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
913 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
914 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
915 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
919 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
920 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
922 Command-Line Interface
923 ----------------------
925 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
927 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
928 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
929 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
930 print for each message.
932 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
933 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
934 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
935 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
937 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
939 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
940 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
941 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
943 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
945 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
946 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
947 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
948 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
950 `notmuch compact` command
952 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
953 functionality through a more convenient interface than
954 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
955 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
956 move the compacted database into place.
961 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
963 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
964 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
965 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
966 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
967 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
968 and multiple threads.
972 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
974 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
975 search, show and tree mode itself)
977 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
980 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
981 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
983 Customising `notmuch-tree`
985 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
986 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
987 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
988 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
989 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
990 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
991 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
993 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
995 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
996 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
997 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
998 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
999 thread when the search was performed.
1001 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1003 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1004 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1005 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1007 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1009 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1010 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1013 Built-in help improvements
1015 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1016 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1017 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1019 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1021 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1022 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1023 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1025 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1027 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1028 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1030 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1032 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1033 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1034 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1035 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1037 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1039 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1040 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1041 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1042 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1044 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1046 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1047 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1048 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1050 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1052 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1053 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1054 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1056 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1058 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1059 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1060 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1061 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1062 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1064 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1066 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1067 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1068 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1069 the body part of the message.
1074 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1075 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1076 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1078 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1079 =========================
1081 Command-Line Interface
1082 ----------------------
1084 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1086 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1087 folder and notmuch index.
1089 `notmuch count --batch` option
1091 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1092 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1094 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1096 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1097 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1098 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1101 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1103 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1104 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1105 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1106 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1107 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1110 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1112 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1113 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1115 Top level option to specify configuration file
1117 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1118 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1120 Bash command-line completion
1122 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1123 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1124 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1125 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1126 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1127 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1128 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1129 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1130 bash-completion package.
1132 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1137 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1139 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1140 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1141 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1142 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1143 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1144 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1145 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1146 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1148 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1150 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1151 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1152 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1154 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1156 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1157 previous thread in the search results.
1159 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1161 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1162 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1164 Faster search and show
1166 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1167 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1168 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1169 threads should show faster.
1173 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1174 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1175 in question was now removed from this release.
1180 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1181 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1186 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1188 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1189 ===========================
1194 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1196 Internal test framework changes
1197 -------------------------------
1199 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1200 being unimplemented.
1202 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1203 ===========================
1205 Internal test framework changes
1206 -------------------------------
1208 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1209 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1211 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1212 =========================
1217 Date range search support
1219 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1220 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1221 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1222 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1223 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1226 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1228 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1229 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1230 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1231 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1232 but may be removed in a future release.
1234 Command-Line Interface
1235 ----------------------
1237 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1239 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1240 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1242 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1244 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1245 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1246 officially deprecated.
1248 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1250 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1251 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1252 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1254 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1256 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1257 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1260 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1261 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1262 dump/restore format.
1264 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1266 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1267 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1268 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1270 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1272 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1273 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1274 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1276 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1278 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1279 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1280 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1281 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1286 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1288 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1289 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1290 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1291 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1293 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1295 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1296 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1297 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1298 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1299 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1300 the behavior of this, see
1301 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1302 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1304 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1305 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1306 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1308 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1310 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1311 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1314 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1316 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1317 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1318 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1319 simply displayed in place of the message.
1321 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1323 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1324 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1326 Improved text/calendar content handling
1328 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1329 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1330 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1331 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1333 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1335 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1336 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1337 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1338 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1340 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1342 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1343 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1344 for HTML email containing images.
1346 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1348 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1350 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1352 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1355 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1357 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1358 the point where it was.
1360 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1362 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1363 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1364 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1365 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1366 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1368 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1370 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1371 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1372 thread instead of the message id.
1374 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1375 -----------------------------
1377 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1378 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1379 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1380 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1381 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1382 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1383 further details and installation.
1388 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1390 Internal test framework changes
1391 -------------------------------
1393 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1395 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1396 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1397 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1398 can result in buggy behavior.
1400 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1401 =========================
1406 Maildir tag synchronization
1408 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1409 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1410 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1411 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1412 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1413 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1416 Command-Line Interface
1417 ----------------------
1419 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1420 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1421 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1422 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1423 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1429 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1431 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1433 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1434 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1435 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1437 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1439 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1440 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1441 span multiple lines.
1443 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1445 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1446 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1447 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1448 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1449 inside the result or message.
1451 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1453 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1454 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1456 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1457 user-specified formatting
1459 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1460 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1461 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1462 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1463 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1465 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1466 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1468 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1469 ===========================
1474 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1475 compilation error for this contrib package.
1477 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1478 ===========================
1483 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1485 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1486 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1487 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1488 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1490 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1491 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1494 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1495 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1496 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1497 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1500 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1502 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1505 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1506 =========================
1508 Command-Line Interface
1509 ----------------------
1513 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1514 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1515 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1516 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1518 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1519 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1520 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1521 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1525 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1526 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1528 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1529 tag in your query, for example:
1531 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1533 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1534 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1536 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1537 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1539 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1541 Raw show format changes
1543 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1544 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1545 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1546 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1547 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1548 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1549 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1550 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1552 Listing configuration items
1554 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1560 Changes to tagging interface
1562 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1563 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1564 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1565 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1566 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1567 for more information.
1569 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1570 may need to update in custom configurations.
1572 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1574 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1575 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1576 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1577 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1580 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1581 -----------------------------
1583 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1584 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1585 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1586 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1587 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1588 contrib/ from now on.
1593 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1594 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1596 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1597 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1599 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1600 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1601 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1603 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1604 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1606 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1607 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1608 returning the new database object or directory object.
1615 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1616 compatible with go 1.
1618 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1619 =========================
1621 Command-Line Interface
1622 ----------------------
1626 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1627 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1628 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1629 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1631 Mail store folder/file ignore
1633 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1634 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1635 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1637 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1638 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1640 Unified help and manual pages
1642 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1643 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1646 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1648 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1649 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1657 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1658 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1659 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1660 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1662 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1664 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1665 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1667 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1670 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1671 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1672 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1674 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1676 should be changed to:
1678 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1680 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1682 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1683 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1685 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1687 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1688 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1689 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1690 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1691 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1692 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1696 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1697 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1698 of Mailing List Archives.
1700 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1702 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1703 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1706 Show view archiving key binding changes
1708 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1709 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1710 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1711 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1712 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1715 Support text/calendar MIME type
1717 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1720 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1722 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1723 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1724 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1725 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1727 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1729 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1730 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1731 messages blue by default in the search view.
1735 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1736 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1743 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1746 Python bindings changes
1747 -----------------------
1749 Python 3.2 compatibility
1751 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1753 Added missing unicode conversions
1755 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1756 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1757 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1762 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1764 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1765 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1766 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1767 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1768 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1770 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1771 ===========================
1776 Fix error handling in python bindings
1778 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1779 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1780 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1781 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1783 Quote MML tags in replies
1785 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1786 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1787 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1788 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1789 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1790 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1791 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1792 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1794 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1795 =========================
1797 Command-Line Interface
1798 ----------------------
1802 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1803 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1804 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1805 importing new messages into the database.
1807 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1809 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1810 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1811 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1816 Automatic tag query optimization
1818 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1819 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1820 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1822 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1824 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1825 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1826 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1831 Reduction of memory leaks
1833 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1834 and fixed in this release.
1841 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1842 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1843 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1846 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1848 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1849 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1850 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1853 Improvements in saved search management
1855 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1856 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1857 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1859 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1861 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1862 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1863 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1865 New face for crypto parts headers
1867 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1868 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1869 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1872 Use space as default thousands separator
1874 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1875 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1876 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1878 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1879 buttonized id: links
1881 New function notmuch-show-advance
1883 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1884 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1885 be bound to SPC with:
1887 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1889 Various performance improvements
1894 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1895 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1898 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1899 ===========================
1904 Fix crash in python bindings
1906 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1907 for some, but not all users.
1909 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1910 ===========================
1915 Fix `--help` argument
1917 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1918 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1919 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1921 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1922 =========================
1924 New build and testing features
1925 ------------------------------
1927 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1928 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1929 prerequisites is improved.
1931 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1933 New command-line features
1934 -------------------------
1936 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1938 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1939 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1942 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1944 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1945 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1946 favour of using stdout.
1948 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1950 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1951 limit the number of results shown.
1953 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1955 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1956 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1959 New emacs UI features
1960 ---------------------
1962 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1964 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1965 starting with "tag:".
1967 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1969 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1970 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1972 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1974 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1976 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1978 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1979 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1984 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1986 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1988 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1989 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1990 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1991 requires a database rebuild:
1993 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1994 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1996 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1998 New collection of add-on tools
1999 ------------------------------
2001 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2002 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2003 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2006 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2008 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2009 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2010 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2012 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2013 ========================
2015 New, general features
2016 ---------------------
2018 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2020 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2021 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2022 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2023 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2024 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2031 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2032 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2034 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2038 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2039 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2040 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2043 Python bindings changes
2044 -----------------------
2046 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2048 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2049 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2050 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2051 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2052 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2053 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2055 Ruby bindings changes
2056 ---------------------
2058 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2059 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2060 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2061 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2066 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2068 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2069 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2071 Reply formatting cleanup
2072 ------------------------
2074 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2075 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2077 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2078 ========================
2080 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2082 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2083 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2084 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2085 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2088 Improved Build system portability
2090 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2091 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2092 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2094 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2096 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2098 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2100 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2101 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2102 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2104 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2105 ========================
2107 Vim interface improvements
2108 --------------------------
2110 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2112 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2113 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2114 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2115 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2116 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2118 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2120 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2121 * fix compose temp file name
2123 Python Bindings changes
2124 -----------------------
2126 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2128 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2129 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2131 Build-System improvements
2132 -------------------------
2134 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2136 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2139 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2140 ==========================
2145 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2147 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2148 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2150 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2151 =======================
2153 New, general features
2154 ---------------------
2156 Folder-based searching
2158 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2159 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2160 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2164 For example, one might use things such as:
2170 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2171 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2173 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2174 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2175 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2176 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2178 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2179 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2180 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2183 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2184 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2186 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2188 Support for PGP/MIME
2190 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2191 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2192 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2194 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2196 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2197 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2199 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2200 notmuch will receive these tags.
2202 New command-line features
2203 -------------------------
2205 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2207 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2208 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2210 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2212 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2213 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2214 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2216 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2218 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2219 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2220 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2221 which parts a signature part applies).
2223 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2225 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2226 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2227 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2228 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2229 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2232 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2234 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2235 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2236 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2237 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2238 by translating it internally to the new call.
2240 Performance improvements
2241 ------------------------
2243 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2245 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2246 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2247 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2249 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2250 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2252 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2254 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2255 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2256 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2258 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2259 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2260 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2261 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2263 Faster initial indexing
2265 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2266 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2267 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2269 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2271 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2272 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2273 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2274 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2276 New emacs-interface features
2277 ----------------------------
2279 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2281 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2282 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2283 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2284 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2285 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2286 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2288 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2290 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2291 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2292 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2293 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2295 User-selectable From address
2297 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2298 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2299 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2300 will prompt for the from address to use.
2302 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2303 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2304 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2306 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2307 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2308 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2311 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2313 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2314 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2316 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2318 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2320 ----- Original Message -----
2322 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2323 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2324 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2325 citations work much like conventional citations.
2327 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2329 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2330 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2331 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2332 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2333 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2335 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2336 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2338 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2340 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2341 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2342 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2344 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2346 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2347 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2348 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2349 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2350 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2352 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2354 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2357 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2359 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2361 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2363 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2366 Vim interface improvements
2367 --------------------------
2369 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2371 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2372 * Implementing archive in show view
2373 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2374 * Add delete commands
2377 Bindings improvements
2378 ---------------------
2380 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2382 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2383 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2385 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2387 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2391 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2392 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2393 `list(Messages)` works now
2394 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2396 These allow, for example:
2398 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2400 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2402 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2408 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2410 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2413 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2415 New build-system features
2416 -------------------------
2418 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2420 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2421 the configure script from some other directory:
2428 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2430 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2431 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2432 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2433 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2434 manual invocation of configure.
2436 New test-suite feature
2437 ----------------------
2439 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2441 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2442 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2443 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2444 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2445 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2448 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2450 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2451 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2452 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2453 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2454 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2455 are updated to take advantage of this.
2457 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2459 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2460 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2461 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2462 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2468 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2470 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2471 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2472 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2474 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2476 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2478 to:user@elsewhere.com
2480 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2482 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2484 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2486 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2487 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2488 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2491 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2492 from the Received headers in some cases
2494 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2495 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2497 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2499 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2501 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2503 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2504 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2505 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2507 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2508 -------------------------
2510 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2512 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2513 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2514 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2516 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2518 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2519 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2520 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2523 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2525 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2526 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2527 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2528 fixed to avoid this bug.
2530 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2532 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2533 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2535 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2536 ========================
2538 New, general features
2539 ---------------------
2541 Maildir-flag synchronization
2543 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2544 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2553 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2555 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2556 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2557 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2558 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2560 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2561 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2562 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2563 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2566 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2568 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2569 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2570 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2572 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2573 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2575 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2576 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2578 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2579 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2580 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2582 New library features
2583 --------------------
2585 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2587 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2588 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2589 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2590 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2592 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2593 message with the new function:
2595 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2597 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2598 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2599 over all available filenames for a given message.
2601 New command-line features
2602 -------------------------
2604 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2606 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2607 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2608 access to the mail store itself.
2610 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2611 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2612 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2613 name of a script containing:
2615 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2617 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2618 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2624 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2626 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2628 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2630 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2631 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2632 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2633 now produces nothing).
2635 Emacs interface improvements
2636 ----------------------------
2638 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2640 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2642 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2644 Display current thread subject in a header line
2646 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2648 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2650 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2651 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2652 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2653 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2654 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2655 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2656 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2658 Vim interface improvements
2659 --------------------------
2661 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2663 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2664 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2670 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2672 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2673 ========================
2675 New command-line features
2676 -------------------------
2678 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2680 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2681 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2682 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2684 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2685 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2686 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2687 scripts. For example:
2689 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2690 <operations-on> "$file"
2693 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2695 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2696 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2697 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2698 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2699 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2700 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2702 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2704 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2705 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2706 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2707 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2709 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2711 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2712 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2713 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2714 default rather than Bcc.
2716 New library features
2717 --------------------
2719 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2721 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2722 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2727 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2729 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2730 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2731 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2732 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2733 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2734 notmuch customize interface.
2736 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2738 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2739 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2740 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2741 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2743 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2745 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2746 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2747 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2748 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2750 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2752 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2753 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2754 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2755 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2756 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2757 notmuch customize interface.
2759 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2761 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2762 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2763 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2764 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2765 notmuch customize interface.
2767 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2769 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2770 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2771 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2772 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2775 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2777 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2778 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2779 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2782 New build-system features
2783 -------------------------
2785 Various portability fixes have been applied
2787 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2788 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2789 more portable than ever before.
2791 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2793 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2794 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2795 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2797 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2798 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2799 automatically run ldconfig.
2801 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2802 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2803 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2805 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2806 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2807 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2808 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2810 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2812 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2813 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2814 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2815 used in the resulting Makefile.
2817 New test-suite features
2818 -----------------------
2820 New modularization of test suite
2822 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2823 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2824 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2825 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2826 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2827 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2828 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2829 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2831 New testing of emacs interface
2833 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2834 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2835 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2836 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2837 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2838 database via the FCC setting.
2843 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2845 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2846 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2847 persistent error of the form:
2849 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2851 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2852 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2854 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2856 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2857 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2858 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2860 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2862 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2863 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2864 parsing the notmuch results).
2866 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2868 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2871 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2872 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2873 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2878 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2880 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2881 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2882 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2883 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2884 the emacs interface.
2886 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2888 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2889 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2890 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2892 Python-binding fixes
2893 --------------------
2895 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2897 Debian-specific fixes
2898 ---------------------
2900 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2902 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2903 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2904 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2907 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2908 ==========================
2913 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2915 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2916 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2917 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2918 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2920 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2922 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2923 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2924 want notmuch to crash.
2929 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2931 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2932 directory does not exist
2937 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2939 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2940 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2942 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2943 ========================
2945 New command-line features
2946 -------------------------
2948 User-configurable tags for new messages
2950 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2951 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2952 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2953 to specify this value.
2955 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2957 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2958 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2959 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2961 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2963 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2964 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2966 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2968 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2969 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2970 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2971 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2972 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2975 Indication of author names that match a search
2977 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2978 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2979 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2980 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2981 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2982 messages in the thread are listed first.
2984 New: Python bindings
2985 --------------------
2987 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2988 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2989 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2990 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2992 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2993 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2994 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2997 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2998 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2999 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3001 Emacs interface improvements
3002 ----------------------------
3004 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3006 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3007 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3008 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3009 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3010 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3011 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3012 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3013 but without any of the disadvantages).
3015 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3016 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3017 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3020 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3021 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3022 instead running something like:
3024 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3026 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3027 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3028 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3031 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3033 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3034 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3035 tweaked by the user.
3037 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3038 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3039 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3042 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3043 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3044 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3047 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3049 This support currently relies on an external program,
3050 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3051 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3052 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3053 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3054 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3057 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3058 notmuch) is available via:
3060 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3062 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3063 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3064 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3066 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3068 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3069 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3070 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3071 making this automatic in a future release.
3073 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3075 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3076 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3077 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3078 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3079 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3080 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3083 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3085 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3086 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3087 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3089 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3091 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3092 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3093 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3095 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3096 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3097 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3098 other representation.
3100 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3101 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3104 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3106 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3107 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3108 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3110 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3111 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3112 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3114 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3116 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3117 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3118 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3119 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3120 to display the search result.
3122 More flexible handling of header visibility
3124 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3125 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3126 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3127 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3128 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3129 with the 'h' keybinding.
3131 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3132 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3133 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3135 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3137 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3139 Customizable formatting of search results
3141 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3142 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3143 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3145 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3147 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3149 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3154 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3156 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3157 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3158 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3159 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3165 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3167 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3168 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3170 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3172 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3173 accept are now all accepted.
3178 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3180 Better display of output from failed tests
3182 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3183 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3185 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3186 ========================
3188 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3189 detailed release notes this time!
3191 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3192 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3194 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3195 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3196 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3197 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3204 Better guessing of From: header
3206 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3207 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3208 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3209 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3210 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3213 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3215 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3216 guaranteed to match all messages.
3218 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3220 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3221 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3222 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3223 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3224 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3227 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3230 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3231 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3232 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3233 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3238 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3240 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3241 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3242 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3243 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3245 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3247 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3249 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3250 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3251 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3253 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3255 Previously, the user might see:
3257 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3261 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3263 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3264 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3265 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3266 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3268 Emacs client features
3269 ---------------------
3271 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3273 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3274 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3275 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3276 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3277 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3279 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3282 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3283 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3284 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3285 search with the '*' binding.
3287 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3289 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3290 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3293 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3295 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3296 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3297 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3299 Build-system features
3300 ---------------------
3302 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3304 Add support to configure for many standard options
3306 We include actual support for:
3308 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3310 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3312 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3313 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3315 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3316 separate "make install-emacs"
3318 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3320 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3321 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3322 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3324 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3327 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3328 ========================
3330 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3332 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3333 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3335 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3336 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3337 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3338 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3339 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3340 tags from messages in a thread.
3347 indent-tabs-mode: nil