1 Notmuch 0.19~rc2 (2014-11-09)
2 =============================
7 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
9 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
10 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
11 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
12 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
13 script callers should still check the return value.
15 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
17 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
18 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
19 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
20 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
21 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
22 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
23 and returning success even if indexing fails).
25 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
27 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
28 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
29 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
31 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
33 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
34 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
35 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
36 have at least `N` files associated with them.
41 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
43 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
44 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
45 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
48 Expanded default saved search settings
50 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
51 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
53 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
55 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
56 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
57 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
59 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
61 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
62 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
63 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
64 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
65 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
66 the variable for details.
71 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
73 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
74 Representing these independently of the database version number will
75 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
76 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
78 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
80 Previously, library users were required to call
81 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
82 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
83 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
84 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
85 too out of date for that API.
87 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
89 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
90 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
91 atomic section will be aborted.
93 Add return status to notmuch_database_close and
94 notmuch_database_destroy
96 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
98 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
99 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
100 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
101 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
102 messages into the same thread.
107 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
108 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
109 the same, but `nmbug help` is not `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
110 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
111 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
112 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
117 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
118 from the config file. Use something like:
122 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
123 "footer": "</body></html>",
132 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
137 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
138 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
139 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
141 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
142 ===========================
147 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
149 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
151 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
153 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
154 structure for signatures changed slightly.
156 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
158 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
161 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
162 ===========================
164 This is a bug fix and portability release.
169 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
171 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
173 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
175 Fix handling of html_static_path in sphinx
177 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
183 Use --quick when starting emacs
185 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
187 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
189 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
191 Command-Line Interface
192 ----------------------
194 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
195 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
200 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
202 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
203 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
205 Fix for phrase indexing
207 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
208 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
209 will affect only newly indexed messages.
214 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
216 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
217 unintentionally removed.
219 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
220 =========================
225 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
226 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
227 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
228 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
229 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
230 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
231 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
232 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
233 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
239 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
241 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
242 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
243 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
244 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
245 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
246 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
247 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
248 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
250 There is a new `path:` search prefix.
252 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
253 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
254 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
255 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
258 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
260 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
261 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
262 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
263 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
264 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
265 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
266 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
271 Notmuch database upgrade
273 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
274 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
275 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
276 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
277 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
278 released version of Notmuch before now.
280 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
282 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
283 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
284 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
285 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
287 Message header parsing changes
289 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
290 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
291 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
292 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
293 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
294 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
296 Command-Line Interface
297 ----------------------
299 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
301 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
303 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
305 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
307 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
309 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
310 user does not want it.
312 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
314 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
315 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
316 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
317 support formatted output.
319 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
321 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
322 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
323 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
331 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
332 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
333 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
334 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
335 `~/.emacs` with these.
337 Changed format for saved searches
339 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
340 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
341 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
342 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
345 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
346 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
347 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
348 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
350 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
351 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
352 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
354 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
355 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
356 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
357 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
358 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
360 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
362 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
363 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
364 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
366 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
368 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
369 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
370 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
371 message had been unread).
373 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
374 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
375 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
376 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
378 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
379 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
380 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
382 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
383 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
384 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
385 to tags already present.
389 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
390 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
391 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
392 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
393 these differ from each other.
394 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
396 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
398 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
399 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
400 for these Emacs versions.
402 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
404 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
405 newlines before calling notmuch count.
407 Bug fixes for sender identities
409 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
410 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
411 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
413 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
415 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
416 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
417 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
418 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
420 Reply pushes mark before signature
422 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
423 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
424 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
426 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
428 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
429 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
435 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
436 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
438 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
439 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
440 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
441 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
443 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
444 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
445 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
446 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
447 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
449 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
451 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
452 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
454 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
455 =========================
457 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
458 ---------------------------------------
460 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
461 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
462 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
463 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
464 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
465 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
466 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
470 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
471 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
473 Command-Line Interface
474 ----------------------
476 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
478 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
479 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
480 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
481 print for each message.
483 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
484 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
485 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
486 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
488 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
490 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
491 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
492 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
494 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
496 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
497 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
498 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
499 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
501 `notmuch compact` command
503 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
504 functionality through a more convenient interface than
505 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
506 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
507 move the compacted database into place.
512 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
514 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
515 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
516 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
517 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
518 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
519 and multiple threads.
523 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
525 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
526 search, show and tree mode itself)
528 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
531 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
532 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
534 Customising `notmuch-tree`
536 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
537 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
538 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
539 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
540 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
541 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
542 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
544 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
546 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
547 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
548 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
549 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
550 thread when the search was performed.
552 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
554 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
555 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
556 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
558 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
560 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
561 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
564 Built-in help improvements
566 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
567 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
568 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
570 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
572 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
573 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
574 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
576 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
578 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
579 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
581 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
583 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
584 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
585 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
586 to move some of them to the common keymap.
588 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
590 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
591 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
592 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
593 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
595 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
597 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
598 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
599 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
601 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
603 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
604 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
605 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
607 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
609 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
610 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
611 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
612 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
613 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
615 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
617 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
618 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
619 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
620 the body part of the message.
625 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
626 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
627 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
629 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
630 =========================
632 Command-Line Interface
633 ----------------------
635 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
637 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
638 folder and notmuch index.
640 `notmuch count --batch` option
642 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
643 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
645 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
647 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
648 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
649 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
652 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
654 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
655 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
656 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
657 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
658 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
661 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
663 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
664 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
666 Top level option to specify configuration file
668 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
669 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
671 Bash command-line completion
673 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
674 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
675 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
676 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
677 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
678 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
679 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
680 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
681 bash-completion package.
683 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
688 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
690 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
691 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
692 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
693 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
694 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
695 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
696 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
697 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
699 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
701 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
702 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
703 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
705 Key bindings for next/previous thread
707 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
708 previous thread in the search results.
710 Better handling of errors in search buffers
712 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
713 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
715 Faster search and show
717 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
718 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
719 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
720 threads should show faster.
724 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
725 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
726 in question was now removed from this release.
731 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
732 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
737 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
739 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
740 ===========================
745 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
747 Internal test framework changes
748 -------------------------------
750 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
753 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
754 ===========================
756 Internal test framework changes
757 -------------------------------
759 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
760 build failures in non-interactive environments.
762 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
763 =========================
768 Date range search support
770 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
771 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
772 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
773 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
774 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
777 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
779 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
780 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
781 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
782 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
783 but may be removed in a future release.
785 Command-Line Interface
786 ----------------------
788 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
790 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
791 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
793 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
795 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
796 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
797 officially deprecated.
799 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
801 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
802 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
803 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
805 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
807 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
808 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
811 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
812 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
815 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
817 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
818 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
819 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
821 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
823 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
824 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
825 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
827 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
829 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
830 output separated by null characters rather than newline
831 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
832 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
837 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
839 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
840 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
841 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
842 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
844 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
846 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
847 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
848 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
849 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
850 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
851 the behavior of this, see
852 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
853 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
855 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
856 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
857 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
859 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
861 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
862 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
865 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
867 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
868 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
869 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
870 simply displayed in place of the message.
872 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
874 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
875 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
877 Improved text/calendar content handling
879 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
880 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
881 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
882 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
884 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
886 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
887 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
888 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
889 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
891 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
893 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
894 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
895 for HTML email containing images.
897 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
899 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
901 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
903 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
906 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
908 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
909 the point where it was.
911 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
913 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
914 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
915 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
916 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
917 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
919 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
921 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
922 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
923 thread instead of the message id.
925 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
926 -----------------------------
928 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
929 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
930 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
931 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
932 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
933 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
934 further details and installation.
939 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
941 Internal test framework changes
942 -------------------------------
944 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
946 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
947 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
948 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
949 can result in buggy behavior.
951 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
952 =========================
957 Maildir tag synchronization
959 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
960 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
961 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
962 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
963 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
964 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
967 Command-Line Interface
968 ----------------------
970 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
971 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
972 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
973 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
974 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
980 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
982 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
984 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
985 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
986 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
988 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
990 It is now possible to embed newlines in
991 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
994 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
996 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
997 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
998 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
999 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1000 inside the result or message.
1002 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1004 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1005 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1007 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1008 user-specified formatting
1010 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1011 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1012 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1013 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1014 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1016 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1017 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1019 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1020 ===========================
1025 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1026 compilation error for this contrib package.
1028 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1029 ===========================
1034 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1036 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1037 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1038 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1039 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1041 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1042 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1045 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1046 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1047 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1048 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1051 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1053 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1056 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1057 =========================
1059 Command-Line Interface
1060 ----------------------
1064 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1065 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1066 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1067 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1069 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1070 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1071 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1072 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1076 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1077 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1079 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1080 tag in your query, for example:
1082 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1084 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1085 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1087 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1088 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1090 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1092 Raw show format changes
1094 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1095 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1096 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1097 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1098 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1099 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1100 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1101 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1103 Listing configuration items
1105 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1111 Changes to tagging interface
1113 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1114 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1115 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1116 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1117 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1118 for more information.
1120 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1121 may need to update in custom configurations.
1123 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1125 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1126 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1127 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1128 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1131 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1132 -----------------------------
1134 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1135 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1136 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1137 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1138 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1139 contrib/ from now on.
1144 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1145 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1147 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1148 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1150 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1151 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1152 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1154 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1155 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1157 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1158 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1159 returning the new database object or directory object.
1166 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1167 compatible with go 1.
1169 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1170 =========================
1172 Command-Line Interface
1173 ----------------------
1177 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1178 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1179 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1180 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1182 Mail store folder/file ignore
1184 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1185 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1186 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1188 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1189 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1191 Unified help and manual pages
1193 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1194 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1197 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1199 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1200 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1208 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1209 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1210 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1211 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1213 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1215 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1216 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1218 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1221 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1222 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1223 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1225 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1227 should be changed to:
1229 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1231 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1233 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1234 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1236 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1238 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1239 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1240 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1241 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1242 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1243 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1247 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1248 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1249 of Mailing List Archives.
1251 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1253 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1254 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1257 Show view archiving key binding changes
1259 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1260 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1261 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1262 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1263 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1266 Support text/calendar MIME type
1268 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1271 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1273 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1274 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1275 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1276 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1278 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1280 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1281 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1282 messages blue by default in the search view.
1286 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1287 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1294 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1297 Python bindings changes
1298 -----------------------
1300 Python 3.2 compatibility
1302 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1304 Added missing unicode conversions
1306 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1307 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1308 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1313 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1315 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1316 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1317 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1318 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1319 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1321 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1322 ===========================
1327 Fix error handling in python bindings
1329 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1330 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1331 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1332 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1334 Quote MML tags in replies
1336 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1337 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1338 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1339 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1340 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1341 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1342 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1343 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1345 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1346 =========================
1348 Command-Line Interface
1349 ----------------------
1353 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1354 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1355 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1356 importing new messages into the database.
1358 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1360 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1361 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1362 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1367 Automatic tag query optimization
1369 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1370 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1371 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1373 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1375 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1376 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1377 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1382 Reduction of memory leaks
1384 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1385 and fixed in this release.
1392 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1393 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1394 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1397 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1399 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1400 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1401 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1404 Improvements in saved search management
1406 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1407 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1408 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1410 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1412 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1413 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1414 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1416 New face for crypto parts headers
1418 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1419 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1420 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1423 Use space as default thousands separator
1425 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1426 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1427 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1429 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1430 buttonized id: links
1432 New function notmuch-show-advance
1434 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1435 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1436 be bound to SPC with:
1438 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1440 Various performance improvements
1445 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1446 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1449 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1450 ===========================
1455 Fix crash in python bindings
1457 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1458 for some, but not all users.
1460 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1461 ===========================
1466 Fix `--help` argument
1468 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1469 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1470 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1472 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1473 =========================
1475 New build and testing features
1476 ------------------------------
1478 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1479 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1480 prerequisites is improved.
1482 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1484 New command-line features
1485 -------------------------
1487 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1489 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1490 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1493 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1495 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1496 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1497 favour of using stdout.
1499 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1501 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1502 limit the number of results shown.
1504 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1506 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1507 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1510 New emacs UI features
1511 ---------------------
1513 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1515 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1516 starting with "tag:".
1518 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1520 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1521 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1523 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1525 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1527 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1529 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1530 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1535 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1537 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1539 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1540 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1541 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1542 requires a database rebuild:
1544 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1545 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1547 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1549 New collection of add-on tools
1550 ------------------------------
1552 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1553 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1554 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1557 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1559 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1560 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1561 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1563 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1564 ========================
1566 New, general features
1567 ---------------------
1569 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1571 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1572 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1573 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1574 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1575 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1582 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1583 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1585 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1589 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1590 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1591 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1594 Python bindings changes
1595 -----------------------
1597 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1599 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1600 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1601 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1602 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1603 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1604 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1606 Ruby bindings changes
1607 ---------------------
1609 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1610 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1611 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1612 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1617 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1619 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1620 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1622 Reply formatting cleanup
1623 ------------------------
1625 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1626 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1628 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1629 ========================
1631 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1633 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1634 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1635 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1636 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1639 Improved Build system portability
1641 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1642 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1643 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1645 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1647 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1649 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1651 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1652 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1653 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1655 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1656 ========================
1658 Vim interface improvements
1659 --------------------------
1661 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1663 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1664 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1665 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1666 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1667 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1669 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1671 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1672 * fix compose temp file name
1674 Python Bindings changes
1675 -----------------------
1677 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1679 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1680 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1682 Build-System improvements
1683 -------------------------
1685 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1687 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1690 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1691 ==========================
1696 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1698 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1699 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1701 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1702 =======================
1704 New, general features
1705 ---------------------
1707 Folder-based searching
1709 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1710 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1711 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1715 For example, one might use things such as:
1721 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1722 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1724 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1725 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1726 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1727 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1729 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1730 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1731 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1734 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1735 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1737 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1739 Support for PGP/MIME
1741 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1742 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1743 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1745 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1747 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1748 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1750 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1751 notmuch will receive these tags.
1753 New command-line features
1754 -------------------------
1756 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1758 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1759 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1761 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1763 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1764 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1765 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1767 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1769 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1770 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1771 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1772 which parts a signature part applies).
1774 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1776 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1777 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1778 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1779 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1780 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1783 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1785 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1786 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1787 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1788 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1789 by translating it internally to the new call.
1791 Performance improvements
1792 ------------------------
1794 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1796 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1797 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1798 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1800 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1801 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1803 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1805 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1806 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1807 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1809 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1810 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1811 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1812 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1814 Faster initial indexing
1816 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1817 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1818 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1820 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1822 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1823 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1824 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1825 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1827 New emacs-interface features
1828 ----------------------------
1830 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1832 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1833 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1834 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1835 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1836 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1837 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1839 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1841 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1842 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1843 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1844 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1846 User-selectable From address
1848 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1849 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1850 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1851 will prompt for the from address to use.
1853 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1854 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1855 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1857 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1858 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1859 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1862 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1864 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1865 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1867 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1869 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1871 ----- Original Message -----
1873 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
1874 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
1875 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
1876 citations work much like conventional citations.
1878 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
1880 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
1881 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
1882 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
1883 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
1884 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
1886 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
1887 Notmuch After Tag Hook
1889 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
1891 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
1892 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
1893 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
1895 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
1897 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
1898 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
1899 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
1900 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
1901 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
1903 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
1905 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
1908 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
1910 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
1912 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
1914 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
1917 Vim interface improvements
1918 --------------------------
1920 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
1922 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
1923 * Implementing archive in show view
1924 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
1925 * Add delete commands
1928 Bindings improvements
1929 ---------------------
1931 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
1933 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
1934 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
1936 Python bindings have been updated and extended
1938 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
1942 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
1943 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
1944 `list(Messages)` works now
1945 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
1947 These allow, for example:
1949 if msg1 == msg2: ...
1951 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
1953 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
1959 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
1961 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
1964 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
1966 New build-system features
1967 -------------------------
1969 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
1971 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
1972 the configure script from some other directory:
1979 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
1981 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
1982 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
1983 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
1984 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
1985 manual invocation of configure.
1987 New test-suite feature
1988 ----------------------
1990 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
1992 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
1993 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
1994 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
1995 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
1996 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
1999 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2001 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2002 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2003 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2004 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2005 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2006 are updated to take advantage of this.
2008 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2010 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2011 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2012 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2013 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2019 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2021 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2022 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2023 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2025 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2027 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2029 to:user@elsewhere.com
2031 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2033 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2035 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2037 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2038 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2039 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2042 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2043 from the Received headers in some cases
2045 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2046 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2048 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2050 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2052 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2054 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2055 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2056 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2058 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2059 -------------------------
2061 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2063 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2064 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2065 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2067 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2069 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2070 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2071 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2074 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2076 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2077 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2078 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2079 fixed to avoid this bug.
2081 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2083 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2084 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2086 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2087 ========================
2089 New, general features
2090 ---------------------
2092 Maildir-flag synchronization
2094 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2095 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2104 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2106 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2107 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2108 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2109 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2111 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2112 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2113 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2114 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2117 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2119 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2120 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2121 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2123 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2124 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2126 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2127 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2129 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2130 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2131 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2133 New library features
2134 --------------------
2136 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2138 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2139 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2140 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2141 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2143 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2144 message with the new function:
2146 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2148 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2149 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2150 over all available filenames for a given message.
2152 New command-line features
2153 -------------------------
2155 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2157 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2158 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2159 access to the mail store itself.
2161 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2162 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2163 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2164 name of a script containing:
2166 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2168 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2169 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2175 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2177 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2179 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2181 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2182 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2183 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2184 now produces nothing).
2186 Emacs interface improvements
2187 ----------------------------
2189 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2191 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2193 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2195 Display current thread subject in a header line
2197 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2199 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2201 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2202 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2203 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2204 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2205 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2206 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2207 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2209 Vim interface improvements
2210 --------------------------
2212 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2214 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2215 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2221 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2223 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2224 ========================
2226 New command-line features
2227 -------------------------
2229 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2231 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2232 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2233 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2235 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2236 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2237 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2238 scripts. For example:
2240 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2241 <operations-on> "$file"
2244 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2246 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2247 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2248 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2249 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2250 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2251 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2253 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2255 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2256 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2257 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2258 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2260 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2262 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2263 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2264 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2265 default rather than Bcc.
2267 New library features
2268 --------------------
2270 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2272 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2273 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2278 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2280 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2281 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2282 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2283 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2284 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2285 notmuch customize interface.
2287 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2289 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2290 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2291 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2292 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2294 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2296 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2297 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2298 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2299 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2301 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2303 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2304 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2305 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2306 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2307 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2308 notmuch customize interface.
2310 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2312 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2313 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2314 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2315 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2316 notmuch customize interface.
2318 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2320 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2321 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2322 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2323 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2326 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2328 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2329 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2330 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2333 New build-system features
2334 -------------------------
2336 Various portability fixes have been applied
2338 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2339 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2340 more portable than ever before.
2342 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2344 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2345 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2346 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2348 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2349 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2350 automatically run ldconfig.
2352 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2353 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2354 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2356 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2357 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2358 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2359 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2361 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2363 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2364 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2365 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2366 used in the resulting Makefile.
2368 New test-suite features
2369 -----------------------
2371 New modularization of test suite
2373 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2374 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2375 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2376 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2377 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2378 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2379 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2380 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2382 New testing of emacs interface
2384 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2385 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2386 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2387 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2388 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2389 database via the FCC setting.
2394 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2396 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2397 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2398 persistent error of the form:
2400 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2402 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2403 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2405 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2407 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2408 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2409 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2411 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2413 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2414 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2415 parsing the notmuch results).
2417 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2419 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2422 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2423 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2424 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2429 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2431 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2432 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2433 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2434 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2435 the emacs interface.
2437 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2439 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2440 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2441 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2443 Python-binding fixes
2444 --------------------
2446 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2448 Debian-specific fixes
2449 ---------------------
2451 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2453 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2454 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2455 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2458 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2459 ==========================
2464 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2466 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2467 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2468 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2469 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2471 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2473 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2474 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2475 want notmuch to crash.
2480 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2482 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2483 directory does not exist
2488 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2490 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2491 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2493 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2494 ========================
2496 New command-line features
2497 -------------------------
2499 User-configurable tags for new messages
2501 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2502 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2503 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2504 to specify this value.
2506 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2508 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2509 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2510 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2512 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2514 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2515 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2517 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2519 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2520 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2521 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2522 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2523 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2526 Indication of author names that match a search
2528 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2529 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2530 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2531 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2532 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2533 messages in the thread are listed first.
2535 New: Python bindings
2536 --------------------
2538 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2539 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2540 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2541 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2543 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2544 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2545 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2548 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2549 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2550 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2552 Emacs interface improvements
2553 ----------------------------
2555 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2557 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2558 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2559 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2560 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2561 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2562 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2563 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2564 but without any of the disadvantages).
2566 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2567 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2568 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2571 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2572 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2573 instead running something like:
2575 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2577 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2578 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2579 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2582 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2584 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2585 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2586 tweaked by the user.
2588 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2589 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2590 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2593 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2594 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2595 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2598 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2600 This support currently relies on an external program,
2601 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2602 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2603 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2604 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2605 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2608 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2609 notmuch) is available via:
2611 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2613 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2614 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2615 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2617 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2619 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2620 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2621 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2622 making this automatic in a future release.
2624 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2626 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2627 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2628 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2629 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2630 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2631 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2634 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2636 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2637 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2638 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2640 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2642 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2643 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2644 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2646 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2647 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2648 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2649 other representation.
2651 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2652 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2655 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2657 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2658 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2659 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2661 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2662 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2663 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2665 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2667 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2668 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2669 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2670 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2671 to display the search result.
2673 More flexible handling of header visibility
2675 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2676 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2677 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2678 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2679 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2680 with the 'h' keybinding.
2682 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2683 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2684 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2686 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2688 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2690 Customizable formatting of search results
2692 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2693 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2694 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2696 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2698 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2700 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2705 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2707 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2708 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2709 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2710 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2716 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2718 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2719 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2721 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2723 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2724 accept are now all accepted.
2729 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2731 Better display of output from failed tests
2733 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2734 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2736 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2737 ========================
2739 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2740 detailed release notes this time!
2742 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2743 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2745 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2746 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2747 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2748 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2755 Better guessing of From: header
2757 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2758 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2759 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2760 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2761 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2764 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2766 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2767 guaranteed to match all messages.
2769 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2771 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2772 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2773 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2774 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2775 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2778 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2781 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2782 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2783 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2784 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2789 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2791 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2792 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2793 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2794 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2796 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2798 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2800 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2801 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2802 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2804 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2806 Previously, the user might see:
2808 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2812 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2814 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2815 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2816 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2817 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2819 Emacs client features
2820 ---------------------
2822 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2824 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2825 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2826 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2827 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2828 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2830 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2833 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2834 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2835 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2836 search with the '*' binding.
2838 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2840 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2841 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2844 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2846 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2847 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2848 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2850 Build-system features
2851 ---------------------
2853 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2855 Add support to configure for many standard options
2857 We include actual support for:
2859 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2861 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2863 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2864 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2866 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2867 separate "make install-emacs"
2869 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2871 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2872 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2873 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
2875 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
2878 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
2879 ========================
2881 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
2883 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
2884 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
2886 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
2887 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
2888 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
2889 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
2890 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
2891 tags from messages in a thread.
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