notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename is mostly stolen from
notmuch_database_remove_message, so this patch also vastly simplfies
the latter using the former.
This API is also useful in its own right and will be used in a later
patch for eager maildir flag synchronization.
Previously, notmuch_database_remove_message would remove the message
file name, sync the change to the message document, re-find the
message document, and then delete it if there were no more file names.
An interruption after sync'ing would result in a file-name-less,
permanently un-removable zombie message that would produce errors and
odd results in searches. We could wrap this in an atomic section, but
it's much simpler to eliminate the round-about approach and just
delete the message document instead of sync'ing it if we removed the
last filename.
notmuch_database_t now keeps a nesting count and we only start a
transaction or commit for the outermost atomic section.
Introduces a new error, NOTMUCH_STATUS_UNBALANCED_ATOMIC.
Previously, this function would synchronize the folder list even if
removing the file name failed. Now it returns immediately if removing
the file name fails.
If the configure script detects missing getline and/or getdelim
symbols, then notmuch will use it's own versions. This patch, based on
id:"87k49v12i5.fsf@pc44es141.cs.uni-magdeburg.de" by Matthias
Guedemann, adds the symbols to notmuch.sym as well so they are
properly exported from the library.
OpenBSD nm apparently doesn't support --defined.
The awk condition is based on the assumption that all defined symbols
have some hex number in the first column.
Thanks to Matthias Guedemann reporting the problem, and an earlier
version of this patch.
Unfortunately Robin Green's patch 52e4dedf9a was lost when I created
gen-version-script.sh. This merges his changes manually into that
script. It turns out tabs seem not needed in version script
files, so I simplified a bit and removed the printf.
Thanks to Alexander Botero-Lowry for help and testing.
If the notmuch.sym target does not explicitly depend on $(libnotmuch_modules),
gen-version-script.sh may be run before all the .o files are created, for
example when doing a parallel build on a machine with many cores.
Conflicts:
lib/Makefile.local
The conflicts are from three kinds of commits not merged into release:
- typo fixes
- removal of debug output
- fix for CLEAN rule
That were never merged into the release branch.
The lack of such exporting seems to cause problems catching
exceptions, as suggested by
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
This manifested in the symbol-hiding test failing when notmuch was
compile with gcc 4.4.5. On i386, this further manifested as notmuch
new failing to run (crashing with an uncaught exception on first run).
Add removal of all ZXFOLDER terms to removal of all XFOLDER terms for
each message filename removal.
The existing filename-list reindexing will put all the needed terms
back in. Test search-folder-coherence now passes.
Signed-off-by:Mark Anderson <ma.skies@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8a856e5c38)
Add removal of all ZXFOLDER terms to removal of all XFOLDER terms for
each message filename removal.
The existing filename-list reindexing will put all the needed terms
back in. Test search-folder-coherence now passes.
Signed-off-by:Mark Anderson <ma.skies@gmail.com>
Carl reports "gcc -aux-info notmuch.aux lib/notmuch.h" does not
generate notmuch.aux for him with Debian gcc 4.6.0-8. A small
modification of the original sed regular expression allows us to work
directly from lib/notmuch.h, rather than preprocessing with gcc.
As with most such simple regex based "parsing", this is quite
sensitive to the input format, and needs that each symbol to be
exported from libnotmuch should
- start with "notmuch_"
- be the first non-whitespace token on the line
- be followed by an open parenthesis.
(Cherry-picked from 51b7ab6968, with conflicts resolved by db)
Carl reports "gcc -aux-info notmuch.aux lib/notmuch.h" does not
generate notmuch.aux for him with Debian gcc 4.6.0-8. A small
modification of the original sed regular expression allows us to work
directly from lib/notmuch.h, rather than preprocessing with gcc.
As with most such simple regex based "parsing", this is quite
sensitive to the input format, and needs that each symbol to be
exported from libnotmuch should
- start with "notmuch_"
- be the first non-whitespace token on the line
- be followed by an open parenthesis.
- c0961e6 introduced a missing slash between $(dir)$(LIBNAME) and missing
$(dir) in front of libnotmuch.a
- cdf1c70a created a file $(dir)/notmuch.h.gch and neglected to
add it to CLEAN
Various typo fixes in comments within the source code.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Restricted to just
source-code comments, (and fixed fix of "descriptios" to "descriptors"
rather than "descriptions").
Various typo fixes in comments within the Makefile and other build scripts.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Restricted to just build files.
This is closely tied to gcc and particularly gnu ld, but I guess the
shared library linking code would need to be adjusted to work on a
non-gnu linker anyay.
I had to make a few not-obviously related changes to the
lib/Makefile.local to make this work: libnotmuch_modules is defined
with := and used in place of $^
(cherry picked from commit 014bf85b1c06ff49be2bde5a26433d2cf376cf70)
We're not properly concatenating the Received headers if we parse them
while requesting a header that isn't Received.
this fixes notmuch-reply address detection in a bunch of situations.
This patch adds the tag "signed" to messages with any multipart/signed
parts, and the tag "encrypted" to messages with any
multipart/encrypted parts. This only occurs when messages are indexed
during notmuch new, so a database rebuild is required to have old
messages tagged.
As of gcc 4.6, there are new warnings from -Wattributes along the lines of:
warning: ‘_notmuch_messages’ declared with greater visibility
than the type of its field ‘_notmuch_messages::iterator’
[-Wattributes]
To squelch these, we decorate all such containing structs with
__attribute__((visibility("default"))). We take care to let only the
C++ compiler see this, (since the C compiler would otherwise warn
about ignored visibility attributes on types).
gcc (at least as of version 4.6.0) is kind enough to point these out to us,
(when given -Wunused-but-set-variable explicitly or implicitly via -Wunused
or -Wall).
One of these cases was a legitimately unused variable. Two were simply
variables (named ignored) we were assigning only to squelch a warning about
unused function return values. I don't seem to be getting those warnings
even without setting the ignored variable. And the gcc docs. say that the
correct way to squelch that warning is with a cast to (void) anyway.
Now each caller of notmuch_message_get_tags only gets a new iterator,
instead of a whole new list. In principle this could cause problems
with iterating while modifying tags, but through the magic of talloc
references, we keep the old tag list alive even after the cache in the
message object is invalidated.
This reduces my index search from the 3.102 seconds before the unified
metadata pass to 1.811 seconds (1.7X faster). Combined with the
thread search optimization in b3caef1f06,
that makes this query 2.5X faster than when I started.
Even if the caller never uses the file names, there is little cost to
simply fetching the file name terms. However, retrieving the full
paths requires additional database work, so the expansion from terms
to full paths is performed lazily.
This also simplifies clearing the filename cache, since that's now
handled by the generic metadata cache code.
This further reduces my inbox search from 3.102 seconds before the
unified metadata pass to 2.206 seconds (1.4X faster).
Replace _notmuch_convert_tags with this and simplify
_create_filenames_for_terms_with_prefix. This will also come in handy
shortly to get the message file name list.
This replaces the guts of the filename list and tag list, making those
interfaces simple iterators over the generic string list. The
directory, message filename, and tags-related code now build generic
string lists and then wraps them in specific iterators. The real wins
come in later patches, when we use these for even more generic
functionality.
As a nice side-effect, this also eliminates the annoying dependency on
GList in the tag list.
This performs a single pass over a message's term list to fetch the
thread ID, message ID, and reply-to, rather than requiring a pass for
each. Xapian decompresses the term list anew for each iteration, so
this reduces the amount of time spent decompressing message metadata.
This reduces my inbox search from 3.102 seconds to 2.555 seconds (1.2X
faster).
Such as:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
This is implemented by having the configure script set a srcdir
variable in Makefile.config, and then sprinkling $(srcdir) into
various make rules. We also use vpath directives to convince GNU make
to find the source files from the original source directory.
Don't require the caller of _notmuch_doc_id_set_init to pass in a
correct bound; instead compute it from the array. This simplifies the
caller and makes this interface easier to use correctly.
Remove the repeated "sizeof (doc_ids->bitmap[0])" that bothered cworth
by instead defining macros to compute the word and bit offset of a
given bit in the doc ID set bitmap.
With talloc, we were already freeing all memory by the time we exited
the loop, but that didn't help with excess use of memory inside the
loop, (which was mostly from tallocing some objects with the incorrect
parent).
Thanks to Andrew Tridgell for sitting next to me and teaching me to
use talloc_report_full to find these leaks.
A new "folder:" prefix in the query string can now be used to match
the directories in which mail files are stored.
The addition of this feature causes the recently added
search-by-folder tests to now pass.
Using the local talloc context ensures that the memory we are using
here will be freed shortly, (rather than hanging on for a long time
with the notmuch database object).
This reduces thread search's 1+2t Xapian queries (where t is the
number of matched threads) to 1+t queries and constructs exactly one
notmuch_message_t for each message instead of 2 to 3.
notmuch_query_search_threads eagerly fetches the docids of all
messages matching the user query instead of lazily constructing
message objects and fetching thread ID's from term lists.
_notmuch_thread_create takes a seed docid and the set of all matched
docids and uses a single Xapian query to expand this docid to its
containing thread, using the matched docid set to determine which
messages in the thread match the user query instead of using a second
Xapian query.
This reduces the amount of time required to load my inbox from 4.523
seconds to 3.025 seconds (1.5X faster).
We really want to change the thread subject at the same time we set
the date, (if the sort order indicates this is necessary). The
previous code for setting the thread subject was sensitive on the
query sort when adding matching messages. An independent bug fix is
about to change that query sort order, so we remove the dependency on
it here.
This was a misfeature where notmuch had extra code that just threw
away legitimate information. It was never indexing an initial "Re"
term in a subject. But some users have legitimately wanted to search
for this term.
The original code was written this way merely for strict compatiblity
with the indexing performed by sup, but we're not taking advantage of
that now anyway.
This is to prevent notmuch from destroying any information the user
has encoded as flags in the maildir filename. Tests are also added to
the test suite to verify the documented behavior.
Some people use notmuch with non-maildir files, (for example, email
messages in MH format, or else cool things like using sluk[*] to suck
down feeds into a format that notmuch can index).
To better support uses like that, don't do any renaming for files that
are not in a directory named either "new" or "cur".
[*] https://github.com/krl/sluk/
I had originally hoped for better semantics, such as doing nothing in
non-maildir directories, and preserving unknown maildir flags that
happen to be present.
We could still do those things, of course, but for now, remove them
from the documentation since the implementation does not do these
things yet.
It is totally legitimate for a non-maildir directory to be named "new"
(and not have a directory next to it named "cur"). To support this
case at least, be silent about any rename failure.
If a filename has no maildir info at all, (that is, it does not
contain the sequence ":2,"), we consider this distinct from a filename
with an empty maildir info, (the ":2," separator is present, but no
flags characters follow).
Specifically, we regard a missing info field as providing no
information, so tags will remain unchanged. On the other hand, an info
field that is present but has no flags set will cause various tags to
be cleared, (or in the case of "unread", added).
This fixes the "remove info" case of the maildir-sync tests in the
test suite.
Previously the documentation of notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
suggested that the presence of a flag would cause tags to be added,
(or in the case of "unread", removed). But the case of absent maildir
flags was not explicitly described.
What we actually want, is that for supported flags, the absence of the
flag in all messages causes the corresponding tag to be removed,
(or in the case of "unread", added). So document that explicitly.
This is the case recently added to the test suite as a failing test,
(so we'll need to do bug fixing before the documentation is honest
here).
We have tests to ensure that when the notmuch library renames a file
that that rename takes place immediately in the database, (without
requiring something like "notmuch new" to notice the change).
This was working when the code was first added, but recently broke in
the reworking of the maildir-synchronization interface since the
tags_to_maildir_flags function can no longer assume that it is being
called as part of _notmuch_message_sync.
Fortunately, the fix is as simple as adding an explicit call to
_notmuch_message_sync.
As documented, this function now iterates over all filenames for the
message, computing a logical OR of the flags set on the filenames,
then uses the final result to set tags on the message.
This change fixes 3 of the 10 maildir-sync tests that have been
failing since being added.
This augments the existing notmuch_message_get_filename by allowing
the caller access to all filenames in the case of multiple files for a
single message.
To support this, we split the iterator (notmuch_filenames_t) away from
the list storage (notmuch_filename_list_t) where previously these were
a single object (notmuch_filenames_t). Then, whenever the user asks
for a file or filename, the message object lazily creates a complete
notmuch_filename_list_t and then:
For notmuch_message_get_filename, returns the first filename
in the list.
For notmuch_message_get_filenames, creates and returns a new
iterator for the filename list.
The new implementation is simply a talloc-based list of strings. The
former support (a list of database terms with a common prefix) is
implemented by simply pre-iterating over the terms and populating the
list. This should provide no performance disadvantage as callers of
thigns like notmuch_directory_get_child_files are very likely to
always iterate over all filenames anyway.
This new implementation of notmuch_filenames_t is in preparation for
adding API to query all of the filenames for a single message.
This rather ugly hack was recently obviated by the removal of the
notmuch_database_set_maildir_sync function. Now, clients must make
explicit calls to do any syncrhonization between maildir flags and
tags. So the library no longer needs to worry about doing inconsistent
synchronization while a message is only partially added.
Instead of having an API for setting a library-wide flag for
synchronization (notmuch_database_set_maildir_sync) we instead
implement maildir synchronization with two new library functions:
notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
and notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
These functions are nicely documented here, (though the implementation
does not quite match the documentation yet---as plainly evidenced by
the current results of the test suite).
Tags in a notmuch database affect all messages with the identical
message-ID. But maildir tags affect individual files. And since
multiple files can contain the identical message-ID, there is not a
one-to-one correspondence between messages affected by tags and flags.
This is particularly dangerous with the 'T' (== "trashed") maildir
flag and the corresponding "deleted" tag in the notmuch
database. Since these flags/tags are often used to trigger
irreversible deletion operations, the lack of one-to-one
correspondence can be potentially dangerous.
For example, consider the following sequence:
1. A third-party application is used to identify duplicate messages
in the mail store, and mark all-but-one of each duplicate with
the 'T' flag for subsequent deletion.
2. A "notmuch new" operation reads that 'T' flag, adding the
"deleted" flag to the corresponding messages within the notmuch
database.
3. A subsequent notmuch operation, (such as a "notmuch dump; notmuch
restore" cycle) synchronized the "deleted" tag back to the mail
store, applying the 'T' flag to all(!) filenames with duplicate
message IDs.
4. A third-party application reads the 'T' flags and irreversibly
deletes all mail messages which had any duplicates(!).
In order to avoid this scenario, we simply refuse to synchronize the
'T' flag with the "deleted" tag. Instead, applications can set 'T' and
act on it to delete files, or can set "deleted" and act on it to
delete files. But in either case the semantics are clear and there is
never dangerous propagation through the one-to-many mapping of notmuch
message objects to files.
This adds group [maildir] and key 'synchronize_flags' to the
configuration file. Its value enables (true) or diables (false) the
synchronization between notmuch tags and maildir flags. By default,
the synchronization is disabled.
This patch allows bi-directional synchronization between maildir
flags and certain tags. The flag-to-tag mapping is defined by flag2tag
array.
The synchronization works this way:
1) Whenever notmuch new is executed, the following happens:
o New messages are tagged with configured new_tags.
o For new or renamed messages with maildir info present in the file
name, the tags defined in flag2tag are either added or removed
depending on the flags from the file name.
2) Whenever notmuch tag (or notmuch restore) is executed, a new set of
flags based on the tags is constructed for every message and a new
file name is prepared based on the old file name but with the new
flags. If the flags differs and the old message was in 'new'
directory then this is replaced with 'cur' in the new file name. If
the new and old file names differ, the file is renamed and notmuch
database is updated accordingly.
The rename happens before the database is updated. In case of crash
between rename and database update, the next run of notmuch new
brings the database in sync with the mail store again.
This prevents any of the private functions from being leaked out
through the library interface (at least when compiling with a
recent-enough gcc to support the visibility pragma).
These various functions and data are all used only locally, so should
be marked static. Ensuring we get these right will avoid us accidentally
leaking unintended symbols through the library interface.
This increment is for the recently-added functions:
notmuch_query_get_query_string
notmuch_query_get_sort
These were recently added to the library interface, but the library
version was not incremented at that time, (shame on me).
Hi,
If I want to build Debian package, it fails with the following message:
ldconfig: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
make[1]: *** [install-lib] Error 1
The reason is that I build the package as a non-root user and make
install invokes ldconfig unconditionally. The following patch contains a
workaround, but I think that a more correct solution would be to check
the condition LIBDIR_IN_LDCONFIG directly when make install is invoked
rather than in configure as it is done now.
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Previously, if the underlying search_messages hit an exception and returned
NULL, this function would ignore that and return a non-NULL, (but empty)
threads object. Fix this to properly propagate the error.
Thanks to the new git-based test suite, it's easy to run the whole
test suite in valgrind, (simply "make test OPTIONS="--valgrind"), and
doing so showed this obvious use-after-free bug, (triggered by the
thread-order tests).
Various users were confused as to why they couldn't run notmuch
immediately after "make install", (with linker errors saying that
libnotmuch.so could not be found). The errors came from two different
causes:
1. The user had installed to a system library directory, but had not
yet run ldconfig.
2. The user had installed to some non-system directory, and had not
set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
With this change we fix both problems (on Linux) without the user
having to do anything additional. We first use ldconfig to find the
system library directories. If the user is installing to one of these,
then we run ldconfig as part of "make install".
For case (2) we use the -rpath and --enable-new-dtags linker options
to install a DT_RUNPATH entry in the binary. This entry tells the
dynamic linker where to find libnotmuch. Without the
--enable-new-dtags option only a DT_RPATH option would be installed,
(which has the drawback of not allowing any override with the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable).
Distributions (such as Debian and Fedora) don't want to see binaries
packaged with a DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH entry. This should be avoided
automatically as long as the packages install to standard locations,
(such as /usr/lib).
Scott Henson reported an internal error that occurred when he tried to
add a message that referenced another message with a message ID well
over 300 characters in length. The bug here was running into a Xapian
limit for the length of metadata key names, (which is even more
restrictive than the Xapian limit for the length of terms).
We fix this by noticing long message ID values and instead using a
message ID of the form "notmuch-sha1-<sha1_sum_of_message_id>". That
is, we use SHA1 to generate a compressed, (but still unique), version
of the message ID.
We add support to the test suite to exercise this fix. The tests add a
message referencing the long message ID, then add the message with the
long message ID, then finally add another message referencing the long
ID. Each of these tests exercise different code paths where the
special handling is implemented.
A final test ensures that all three messages are stitched together
into a single thread---guaranteeing that the three code paths all act
consistently.
Previously we were using Xapian's add_document to allocate document ID
values for notmuch_message_t objects. This had the drawback of adding
a partially constructed mail document to the database. If notmuch was
subsequently interrupted before fully populating this document, then
later runs would be quite confused when seeing the partial documents.
There are reports from the wild of people hitting internal errors of
the form "Message ... has no thread ID" for example, (which is
currently an unrecoverable error).
We fix this by manually allocating document IDs without adding
documents. With this change, we never call Xapian's add_document
method, but only replace_document with either the current document ID
of a message or a new one that we have allocated.
Admittedly, an author name ending in ',' guarantees this is spam, and
indeed this was triggered by a spam email, but that doesn't mean we
shouldn't handle this case correctly.
We now check that there is actually a component of the name (presumably
the first name) after the comma in the author name.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
Just before releasing 0.3 we received reports of crashes that were
bisected to the commit adding thread-author moving. Sure enough,
valgrind pointed to buffer overruns in _thread_move_matched_author.
Rather than trying to make sense of all the by strncpy, strchr, +1,
and +2 of that code, I reimplemented thread-author ordering with a
pair of hash tables and an array.
Valgrind is at least happy now on the test cases it was complaining
about previously.
With this patch the Received: header becomes special in the way
we treat headers - this is the only header for which we concatenate
all the instances we find (instead of just returning the first one).
This will be used in the From guessing code for replies as we need to
be able to walk ALL of the Received: headers in a message to have a
good chance to guess which mailbox this email was delivered to.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
This patch only addresses the typical Outlook/Exchange case
where we have "Last, First" <first.last@company.com> or
"Last, First MI" <first.mi.last@company.com>.
In the future we should be more fexible as to the formats
we recognize, but for now we address this one as it is the
Exchange default setting and therefore the most common one.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
When displaying threads as result of a search it makes sense to list those
authors first who match the search. The matching authors are separated from the
non-matching ones with a '|' instead of a ','
Imagine the default "+inbox" query. Those mails in the thread that
match the query are actually "new" (whatever that means). And some
people seem to think that it would be much better to see those author
names first. For example, imagine a long and drawn out thread that once
was started by me; you have long read the older part of the thread and
removed the inbox tag. Whenever a new email comes in on this thread,
prior to this patch the author column in the search display will first show
"Dirk Hohndel" - I think it should first show the actual author(s) of the new
mail(s).
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
message->authors contains the author's name (as we want to print it)
get / set methods are declared in notmuch-private.h
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
Our current approach is for top-level entry poitns in the library
to have try/catch blocks that catch any Xapian exception and print
a message. Add a few missing blocks and fix up the documentation.
Sebastian Spaeth reported [*] a segfault within libnotmuch when
running notmuch operations while an asyncronous offlineimap job had
removed some files from the mail store. Avoid this by handling all
cases where notmuch_message_get_header could return NULL.
[*] See message id:87d3xqti3o.fsf@SSpaeth.de on notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Previously, we always sorted the returned results by some string value,
(newest-to-oldest by default), however in some cases (as when applying
tags to a search result) we are not interested in any special order.
This introduces a NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value that does just that. It is
not used at the moment anywhere in the code.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
The thread-naming feature depends on the matched messages being passed
down in a precise order, (the order of the top-level search). We fix
the feature by passing that sort order down.
We know that matched messages are always added in order, so we can
always just grab the subject from the first message. This is the same
approach that was used previously in _thread_add_message. That is, the
recent feature of renaming a thread based on the subject of the
"first" matched message is as simple as moving the subject assignment
from _thread_add_message to _thread_add_matched_message.
At the moment all threads are named based on the name of the first message
in the thread. However, this can cause problems if people either start
new threads by replying-all (as unfortunately, many out there do) or
change the subject of their mails to reflect a shift in a thread on a
list.
This patch names threads based on (a) matches for the query, and (b) the
search order. If the search order is oldest-first (as in the default
inbox) it chooses the oldest matching message as the subject. If the
search order is newest-first it chooses the newest one.
Reply prefixes ("Re: ", "Aw: ", "Sv: ", "Vs: ") are ignored
(case-insensitively) so a Re: won't change the subject.
Note that this adds a "sort" argument to _notmuch_thread_create and
_thread_add_matched_message, so that when constructing the thread we can
be aware of the sort order.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
When constructing a thread, we usually run a nested query to find all
messages in the thread that match the original search string. However,
we need to have special-case handling of an original search string of
"*" now that that is a supported means of specifying all messages.
The special-case ends up bein quite simple---we do less work, (just
skipping the nested search since we know that all messages must
match). I had been wanting to write this identical code to more
efficiently handle "notmuch search thread:<foo>" which was previously
running two identical searches. So that case is now more efficient as
well.
This encodes the library version into the library, where the linking
binary can pick it up, and the linker can even enforce mismatches in
the minor release, (such as linking a binary against version 1.2 and
then attempting to run it against version 1.1).
I'm not sure which system Aaron used, but on the machine I have access
to, (Darwin 8.11.0), the -shared and -dylib_install_name options are
not recognized. Instead I use -dynamic_lib and -install_name as
documented here:
http://www.finkproject.org/doc/porting/shared.php
This patch adds a configure check for OS X (actually Darwin),
and sets up the Makefiles to build a proper shared library on
that platform.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>
notmuch previously unconditionally checked mime parts for various
properties, but not for NULL, which is the case if libgmime encounters
an empty mime part.
Upon encounter of an empty mime part, the following is printed to
stderr (the second line due to my patch):
(process:17197): gmime-CRITICAL **: g_mime_message_get_mime_part: assertion `GMIME_IS_MESSAGE (message)' failed
Warning: Not indexing empty mime part.
This is probably a bug that should get addressed in libgmime, but for
not, my patch is an acceptable workaround.
Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Reviewed-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>:
The original proposal for having different open modes used the name
WRITABLE. I didn't like that name, (easy to misspell as WRITEABLE even
for native English speakers). So we renamed it to READ_WRITE
immediately, but apparently some of the documentation held the old
name for a while.
Previously, we were only adding the reference terms for cases where
the referenced message did not yet exist in the database. For thread
presentation, it's useful to have the connection information provided
by the references, even when the messages are present. So add this
term unconditionally.
This function was recently modified, (to include a metadata lookup for
a message's thread ID before looking for parent/child thread IDs), but
the documentation wasn't updated. Fix that.
There are two primary cases in this function, (the message exists in
the database or it does not). Previously the code for these two cases
was split and intermingled with goto-spaghetti connections.
This allows us to thread messages even when we receive them out of
order, or never receive the root.
The thread ids for messages that aren't present but are referred to are
stored as metadata in the database and then retrieved if we ever get
that message.
When determining the thread id for a message we also check for this
metadata so that we can thread descendants of a message together before
we receive it.
Edited by Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: Split this portion of the
commit from the earlier-applied portion adding test cases.
This seems like a generally useful thing to support, (but the previous
support through an empty string was not convenient for some users,
(such as the command-line client).
fix notmuch_message_file_get_header to always return the first instance
of the header you are looking for
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
With the original quiet function, there's an actual purpose (hiding
excessively long compiler command lines so that warnings and errors
from the compiler can be seen).
But with things like quiet_symlink there's nothing quieter. In fact
"SYMLINK" is longer than "ln -sf". So all this is doing is hiding the
actual command from the user for no real benefit.
The only actual reason we implemented the quiet_* functions was to be
able to neatly right-align the command name and left-align the arguments.
Let's give up on that, and just left-align everything, simplifying the
Makefiles considerably. Now, the only instances of a captialized command
name in the output is if there's some actually shortening of the command
itself.
We add a magic line to the beginning of each Makefile.local file to
help the editor know that it should use makefile mode for editing the
file, (even though the filename isn't exactly "Makefile").
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>: Expand treatment from
emacs/Makefile.local to each instance of Makefile.local.
The idea here is to allow a new user of notmuch to be able to run
notmuch immediately after compiling, (without having to install
the shared library first). This also ensures that the test suite
tests the locally compiled library, and not whatever installled
version of the library the dynamic linker happens to find.
When I wanted to create a debian package from the current master, make
install failed because of non-existent include directory. This patch
fixes this minor issue.
We had a fairly ugly violation of modularity with the top-level
Makefile.local isntalling everything, (even when the build commands
for the library were down in lib/Makefile.local).
For the case of adding a file that already exist, (with the same
filename). In this case, nothing will happen to the database, but
that wasn't clear before.
We were previously maintaining two lists of the child Makefile
fragments---one for the includes and another for the dependencies. So,
of course, they drifted and the dependency list wasn't up to date.
We fix this by adding a single subdirs variable, and then using GNU
Makefile substitution to generate both the include and the dependency
lists.
Some side effect of this change caused the '=' assignment of the dir
variable to not work anymore. I'm not sure why that is, but using ':='
makes sense here and fixes the problem.
Commit cd467caf renamed notmuch_query_search to notmuch_query_search_messages.
Commit 1ba3d46f created notmuch_query_search_threads. We better keep the docs
of notmuch_query_create consistent with those changes.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Edited-by: Carl Worth to explicitly list the full name of each
function being referenced.
We rename 'has_more' to 'valid' so that it can function whether
iterating in a forward or reverse direction. We also rename
'advance' to 'move_to_next' to setup parallel naming with
the proposed functions 'move_to_first', 'move_to_last', and
'move_to_previous'.
Thanks to Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> for pointing out the
correct fix, which I verified in the freely-available WG14/N1124 draft
(from the C99 working group) which is available here:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf
The sequential identifiers have the advantage of being guaranteed to
be unique (until we overflow a 64-bit unsigned integer), and also take
up half as much space in the "notmuch search" output (16 columns
rather than 32).
This change also has the side effect of fixing a bug where notmuch
could block on /dev/random at startup (waiting for some entropy to
appear). This bug was hit hard by the test suite, (which could easily
exhaust the available entropy on common systems---resulting in large
delays of the test suite).
If we had external users of this filter then they might expect some of
these macros to exist. But since this is just internal, that's just
unneeded noise.
With modern MIME attachments, we're already avoiding indexing the
attachments. But for old-school uuencoded data in the mail, we have
been directly indexing the encoded data as terms, (which is not useful
at all---nobody will ever ytry to search based on the seemingly random
uuencoded data).
Additionally, indexing a modestly large uuencoded file seems to make
Xapian go insane, (consuming *lots* of memory).
We fix both problems by detecting uuencoded content and not performing
any indexing of it.
Previously we were printing a number of messages upgraded so far. The
original motivation for this was to accurately reflect the fact that
there are two passes, (so each message is processed twice and it's not
accurate to represent with a single count). But as it turns out, the
second pass takes zero time (relatively speaking) so we're still not
accounting for it.
If nothing else, the percentage-based reporting makes for a cleaner
API for the progress_notify function.
The WDF is the "within-document frequency" value for a particular
term. It's intended to provide an indication of how frequent a term is
within a document, (for use in computing relevance). Xapian's term
generator already computes WDF values when we use that, (which we do
for indexing all mail content).
We don't use the term generator when adding single terms for things
that don't actually appear in the mail document, (such as tags, the
filename, etc.). In this case, the WDF value for these terms doesn't
matter much.
But Xapian's flint backend can be more efficient with changes to terms
that don't affect the document "length". So there's a performance
advantage for manipulating tags (with the flint backend) if the WDF of
these terms is 0.
All notmuch searches currently sort by value (either date or message
ID) so it's just wasted effort for Xapian to compute relevance values
for each result. We now explicitly tell Xapian that we're uninterested
in the relevance values.
The first phase copies data from the old format to the new format
without deleting anything. This allows an old notmuch to still use the
database if the upgrade process gets interrupted. The second phase
performs the deletion (after updating the database version number). If
the second phase is interrupted, there will be some unused data in the
database, but it shouldn't cause any actual harm.
The recent support for renames in the database is our first time
(since notmuch has had more than a single user) that we have a
database format change. To support smooth upgrades we now encode a
database format version number in the Xapian metadata.
Going forward notmuch will emit a warning if used to read from a
database with a newer version than it natively supports, and will
refuse to write to a database with a newer version.
The library also provides functions to query the database format
version:
notmuch_database_get_version
to ask if notmuch wants a newer version than that:
notmuch_database_needs_upgrade
and a function to actually perform that upgrade:
notmuch_database_upgrade
Previously we had NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY but
NOTMUCH_STATUS_READONLY_DATABASE which was ugly and confusing. Rename
the latter to NOTMUCH_STATUS_READ_ONLY_DATABASE for consistency.
Previously, many checks were deep in the library just before a cast
operation. These have now been replaced with internal errors and new
checks have instead been added at the beginning of all top-levelentry
points requiring a read-write database.
The new checks now also use a single function for checking and
printing the error message. This will give us a convenient location to
extend the check, (such as based on database version as well).
The original wording made it sound like this function was just doing
some string manipulation. But this function actually creates new
directory documents as a side effect. So make that explicit in its
documentation.
When a notmuch database is upgraded to the new database format, (to
support file rename and deletion), any message documents corresponding
to deleted files will not currently be upgraded. This means that a
search matching these documents will find no filenames in the expected
place.
Go ahead and return the filename as originally stored, (rather than
aborting with an internal error), in this case.
Similar to the return value of notmuch_database_add_message, we now
enhance the return value of notmuch_database_remove_message to
indicate whether the message document was entirely removed (SUCCESS)
or whether only this filename was removed and the document exists
under other filenamed (DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID).
Previously, adding a filename with the same message ID as an existing
message would do nothing. But we recently fixed this to instead add
the new filename to the existing message document. So update the
documentation to match now.
In the presentation we often omit citations and signatures, but this
is not content that should be omitted from the index, (especially
when the citation detection is wrong---see cases where a line
beginning with "From" is corrupted to ">From" by mail processing
tools).
This new directory ojbect provides all the infrastructure needed to
detect when files or directories are deleted or renamed. There's still
code needed on top of this (within "notmuch new") to actually do that
detection.
This commit contains my changes to the API proposed by Keith. Nothing
is dramatically different. There are minor things like changing
notmuch_files_t to notmuch_filenames_t and then various things needed
for completeness as noticed while implementing this, (such as
notmuch_directory_destroy and notmuch_directory_set_mtime).
This will allow applications to support the removal of messages, (such
as when a file is deleted from the mail store). No removal support is
provided yet in commands such as "notmuch new".
The existing find_doc_ids function is convenient when the caller
doesn't want to be bothered constructing a term. But when the caller
*does* have the term already, that interface is just wasteful. So we
export a lower-level interface that maps a pre-constructed term to a
document-ID iterators.
The code to map a filename to a direntry is something that we're going
to want in a future _remove_message function, so put it in a new
function _notmuch_database_filename_to_direntry .
The library interface is unchanged so far, (still just
notmuch_database_add_message), but internally, the old
_set_filename function is now _add_filename instead.
Instead of storing the complete message filename in the data portion
of a mail document we now store a 'direntry' term that contains the
document ID of a directory document and also the basename of the
message filename within that directory. This will allow us to easily
store multple filenames for a single message, and will also allow us
to find mail documents for files that previously existed in a
directory but that have since been deleted.
Some pending commits want the _split_path functionality separate from
mapping a directory to a document ID. The split_path function now
returns the basename as well as the directory name.
We're planning to have mail documents refer to directory documents for
the path of the containing directory. To support this, we need the
path in the data, (since the path in the 'directory' term can be
irretrievable as it will be the SHA1 sum of the path for a very long
path).
We'll soon have mail documents referring to their parent directory's
directory documents, so we'll need access to _find_parent_id in files
such as message.cc.
Storing the document ID of the parent of each directory document will
allow us to find all child-directory documents for a given directory
document. We will need this in order to detect directories that have
been removed from the mail store, (though we aren't yet doing this).
The recent change from storing absolute paths to relative paths means
that new directory documents will already be created, (and the old
ones will just linger stale in the database). Given that, we might as
well put a clean name on the term in the new documents, (and no real
flag day is needed).
We were already storing relative mail filenames, so this is consistent
with that. Additionally, it means that directory documents remain
valid even if the database is relocated within its containing
filesystem.
We'll soon be having multiple entry points that accept a filename
path, so we want common code for getting a relative path from a
potentially absolute path.
And fix the initialization such that the private enum will always have
distinct values from the public enum even if we similarly miss the
addition of a new public value in the future.
The function _notmuch_message_add_thread_id has been removed
from the private interface of notmuch. There's no reason for
one to keep a declaration of its prototype in the code base.
Also, lets update a commentary that referenced that function
and escaped from previous scrutiny.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Since we need to do this for portability, (some systems don't have a
strndup function), we might as well do it unconditionally. There's
almost no disadvantage to doing so, and this has the advantages of not
requiring a configure-time check nor having two different
implementations, one of which would often be less tested.
We carefully noted the fact that we had locally allocated the string
here, but then we neglected to free it. Switch to talloc instead
which makes it easier to get the behavior we want. It's simpler since
we can just call talloc_free unconditionally, without having to track
the state of whether we allocated the storage for name or not.
This error was tirggered with a debugging build via:
make CXXFLAGS="-DDEBUG"
and reported by David Bremner. The actual error is that I'm an
idiot that doesn't know how to use strcmp's return value. Of
course, the strcmp interface scores a negative 7 on Rusty Russell
ranking of bad interfaces:
http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
As per Carl's request, this patch corrects the only value defined under
the notmuch_message_flag_t enum typedef to match the name of the type.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
If Xapian threw an exception on notmuch_query_count_messages the count
variable could be used uninitialized. Initialize count to solve the
problem.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
When _notmuch_thread_create() is given a query string, it can return more
messages than just those matching the query. To distinguish those that
matched the query expression, the MATCHING_SEARCH flag is set
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
This patch allows for different flags, internal to notmuch, to be set on a
message object. The patch does not define any such flags, just the
facilities to manage these flags.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
This patch adds a new function that can be used to collect a list of
unique tags from a list of messages. 'notmuch search-tags' uses the
function to get a list of tags from messages matching a search-term,
but it has the potential to be used elsewhere so we put it in the lib.
Signed-off-by: Jan Janak <jan@ryngle.com>
This patch adds a new function called notmuch_database_get_all_tags
which can be used to obtain a list of all tags from the database
(in other words, the list contains all tags from all messages). The
function produces an alphabetically sorted list.
To add support for the new function, we rip the guts off of
notmuch_message_get_tags and put them in a new generic function
called _notmuch_convert_tags. The generic function takes a
Xapian::TermIterator as argument and uses the iterator to find tags.
This makes the function usable with different Xapian objects.
Function notmuch_message_get_tags is then reimplemented to call the
generic function with message->doc.termlist_begin() as argument.
Similarly, we implement notmuch_message_database_get_all_tags, the
function calls the generic function with db->xapian_db->allterms_begin()
as argument.
Finally, notmuch_database_get_all_tags is exported through
lib/notmuch.h
Signed-off-by: Jan Janak <jan@ryngle.com>
Xapian provides an interator-based interface to all search results.
So it was natural to make notmuch_messages_t be iterator-based as
well. Which we did originally.
But we ran into a problem when we added two APIs, (_get_replies and
_get_toplevel_messages), that want to return a messages iterator
that's *not* based on a Xapian search result. My original compromise
was to use notmuch_message_list_t as the basis for all returned
messages iterators in the public interface.
This had the problem of introducing extra latency at the beginning
of a search for messages, (the call would block while iterating over
all results from Xapian, converting to a message list).
In this commit, we remove that initial conversion and instead provide
two alternate implementations of notmuch_messages_t (one on top of a
Xapian iterator and one on top of a message list).
With this change, I tested a "notmuch search" returning *many* results
as previously taking about 7 seconds before results started appearing,
and now taking only 2 seconds.
Previously, notmuch_query_search_threads would do all the work, so the
caller would block until all results were processed. Now, we do the
work as we go, as the caller iterates with notmuch_threads_next. This
means that once results start coming back from "notmuch search" they
just keep continually streaming.
There's still some initial blocking before the first results appear
because the notmuch_messages_t object has the same bug (for now).
This was a poor workaround around the fact that the existing
notmuch_threads_t object is implemented poorly. It's got a fine
iterartor-based interface, but the implementation does all of the
work up-front in _create rather than doing the work incrementally
while iterating.
So to start fixing this, first get rid of all the hacks we had working
around this. This drops the --first and --max-threads options from the
search command, (but hopefully nobody was using them
anyway---notmuch.el certainly wasn't).
The rudimentary aspect here is that the date ranges are specified with
UNIX timestamp values (number of seconds since 1970-01-01 UTC). One
thing that can help here is using the date program to determins
timestamps, such as:
$(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s)
Long-term, we'll probably need to do our own query parsing to be able
to support directly-specified dates and also relative expressions like
"since:'2 months ago'".
Getting the count of matching threads or messages is a fairly
expensive operation. Xapian provides a very efficient mechanism that
returns an approximate value, so use that for this new command.
This returns the number of matching messages, not threads, as that is
cheap to compute.
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
I configured my database.path with a trailing /, and after running notmuch
new every notmuch search would fail with error messages like this:
Error opening /inbox/cur/1258565257.000211.mbox:2,S: No such file or directory
The actual bug was in the filename normalization for storage in the
database. The database.path was removed from the full filename, but if
the database.path from the config file contained a trailing /, the
relative file name would retain an extra leading /... which made it look
like an absolute path after it was read out from the DB.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Use the facilities of GNU make to create a magic function that will
on the first invocation print a description of how to enable verbose
compile lines and then print the quiet rule.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
[ickle: Rebased, and duplicate command string eliminated.]
[ickle: Fixed verbose bug pointed out by Mikhail]
Since Xapian has a limit on the maximum length of a term, we have
to check for that before trying to add the message ID as a term.
This fixes the bug reported by Mike Hommey here:
<20091120132625.GA19246@glandium.org>
I've also constructed 20 files with a range of message ID lengths
centered around the Xapian term-length limit which I'll use to seed a
new test suite soon.
If an earlier exception occurred, then it's not unexpected for the
flush to fail as well. So in that case, we'll silently catch the
exception. Otherwise, make some noise about things going wrong at the
time of flush.
We only rarely need to actually open the database for writing, but we
always create a Xapian::WritableDatabase. This has the effect of
preventing searches and like whilst updating the index.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
In my script containing a series of queries to be run on new mail for
setting up tags, it's nice to see which query I typed wrong.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
More fallout from _get_header now returning "" for missing headers.
The bug here is that we would no longer detect that a file is not an
email message and give up on it like we should.
And this time, I actually audited all callers to
notmuch_message_get_header, so hopefully we're done fixing this
bug over and over.
There's been a fair amount of fallout from when we changed
message_file_get_header from returning NULL to returning "" for
missing headers. This is yet more fallout from that, (where we were
accepting an empty message-ID rather than generating one like we want
to).
This eliminates a crash when a message (either corrupted or a non-mail
file that wasn't properly detected as not being mail) has no In-Reply-To
header, (and so few terms that trying to skip to the prefix of the
In-Reply-To terms actually brings us to the end of the termlist).
As suggested by Keith in FLAG_PURE_NOT allows for expressions like:
notmuch search NOT tag:inbox
Note that this way a search like:
notmuch search foobar NOT tag:inbox
should not be written instead:
notmuch search foobar AND NOT tag:inbox
In my opinion, the latter feels more natural and is somewhat more explicit.
It gives a better clue of what the search is about instead of assuming that
an implicit AND operator is there.
This was recently introduced in commit:
64c03ae97f
which was adding extra checks to avoid adding a self-referencing
message.
How many times am I going to fix a dumb regression like this and say
"we really need a test suite" before I actually sit down and write the
test suite?
This is what most people want for a _search_ command. It's often
different for actually reading mail in an inbox, (where it makes more
sense to have results displayed in chronological order), but in such a
case, ther user is likely using an interface that can simply pass the
--sort=oldest-first option to "notmuch search".
Here we're also change the sort enum from NOTMUCH_SORT_DATE and
NOTMUCH_SORT_DATE_REVERSE to NOTMUCH_SORT_OLDEST_FIRST and
NOTMUCH_SORT_NEWEST_FIRST. Similarly we replace the --reverse option
to "notmuch search" with two options: --sort=oldest-first and
--sort=newest-first.
Finally, these changes are all tracked in the emacs interface, (which
has no change in its behavior).
We had exposed this to the internal implementation for a short time,
(only while we had the silly code fetching In-Reply-To values from
message files instead of from the database). Make this private again
as it should be.
Maybe ths lack of this documentation is why I forgot we were actually
storing this and wrote the ugly code to fetch In-Reply-To from message
files rather than from the database.
Which is more consistent with the XREFERENCE prefix used in the terms
in the database. Also remove some stale documentation describing the
removal of resolved references from the database (we no longer do
this).
Calling continue here worked only because we set a flag before the
continue, and, check the flag at the beginning of the loop, and *then*
break. It's much more clear to just break in the first place.
The message file header parsing code parses only enough of the file to
find the desired header fields, then it leaves the file open until the
next header parsing call or when the message is no longer in use. If a
large number of messages end up being active, this will quickly run
out of file descriptors.
Here, we add support to explicitly close the message file within a
message, (_notmuch_message_close) and call that from thread
construction code.
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Edited-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>:
Many portions of Keith's original patch have since been solved other
ways, (such as the code that changed the handling of the In-Reply-To
header). So the final version is clean enough that I think even Keith
would be happy to have his name on it.
In our scheme it's illegal for any message to refer to itself, (nor
would it be useful for anything anyway). Cut these self-references off
at the source, before they trip up any internal errors.
This case was happening when a message had its own message ID in its
In-Reply-To header. The thread-resolution code would find the
partially constructed message, (with no thread ID yet), get garbage
from this function, and then march right along with that garbage.
With this commit, a self-cyclic message like this will now trigger an
internal error rather than marching along silienty. (And a subsequent
commit will remove the call to this function in this case.)
This function has only one caller, and that one caller was passing the
same value for both talloc_owner and the notmuch database. Dropping
the redundant argument simplifies the documentation of this function
considerably.
This reduces our reliance on open message_file objects, (so is a step
toward fixing the "too many open files" bug), but more importantly, it
means we don't load a self-referencing in-reply-to header, (since we
weed those out before adding any replyto terms to the database).
When this function was originally written, the 'message' object was
always destroyed locally, so I thought it would be good to use a NULL
talloc context to make it more obvious if there was any leak.
Since then, however, this function has been changed to optionally
return the added message, and in that case we *don't* free the message
locally, so let's let the database be the talloc context.
We now properly analyze the in-reply-to headers to create a proper
tree representing the actual thread and present the messages in this
correct thread order. Also, there's a new "depth:" value added to the
"message{" header so that clients can format the thread as desired,
(such as by indenting replies).
The existing notmuch_message_get_header is *almost* good enough for
this, except that we also need to remove the '<' and '>'
delimiters. We'll probably want to implement this function with
database storage in the future rather than loading the email message.
This prototype has been sitting around for a while with no function
implementing it. I wonder if there's a compiler warning I could turn
on to catch these things.
Previously, the notmuch_messages_t object was a linked list built on
top of a linked-list node with the odd name of notmuch_message_list_t.
Now, we've got much more sane naming with notmuch_message_list_t being
a list built on a linked-list node named notmuch_message_node_t. And
now the public notmuch_messages_t object is a separate iterator based
on notmuch_message_node_t. This means the interfaces for the new
notmuch_message_list_t object are now made available to the library
internals.
The new object is simply a linked-list of notmuch_message_t objects,
(unlike the old object which contained a couple of Xapian iterators).
This works now by the query code immediately iterator over all results
and creating notmuch_message_t objects for them, (rather than waiting
to create the objects until the notmuch_messages_get call as we did
earlier).
The point of this change is to allow other instances of lists of
messages, (such as in notmuch_thread_t), that are not directly related
to Xapian search results.
Previously, an excess call would have caused a crash. Now it simply
does nothing. Also, make notmuch_tags_get use a similar, consistent
early return for a NULL iterator.
We were properly sorting the threads based only on matched messages,
but we were displaying the date based on the total messages in the
thread, which led to inconsistent and very confusing results.
Note that the difference between thread results in date order and
thread results in reverse-date order is not simply a matter of
reversing the final results. When sorting in date order, the threads
are sorted by the oldest message in the thread. When sorting in
reverse-date order, the threads are sorted by the newest message in
the thread.
This difference means that we might want an explicit option in the
interface to reverse the order, (even though the default will be to
display the inbox in date order and global searches in reverse-date
order).
Note that we don't print the number of *unread* messages, but instead
the number of messages that matched the search terms. This is in
keeping with our philosophy that the inbox is nothing more than a
search view. If we search for messages with an inbox tag, then that's
what we'll get a count of. (And if somebody does want to see unread
counts, then they can search for the "unread" tag.)
Getting the number of matched messages is really nice when doing
historical searches. For example in a search like:
notmuch search tag:sent
(where the "sent" tag has been applied to all messages originating
from the user's email address)---here it's really nice to be able to
see a thread where the user just mentioned one point [1/13] vs. really
getting involved in the discussion [10/29].
We add a hash to the thread object so that we can detect author names
that have already been added to the list, and avoid adding them
redundantly. This avoids the giant chain of "bugzilla-daemon,
bugzilla-daemon, bugzilla-daemon, bugzilla-daemon, ..." author lists
that we would get otherwise, for example.
We've now expanded the notmuch_thread_create function to fire off a
secondary database query to find all the messages that belong to this
particular thread. This allows us to now have the complete authors'
list for the thread, and will also make it trivial to print accurate
message counts for threads in the future.
I thought it would be safe enough to return a few extra threads,
(since we happened to already get the relevant messages out of the
database). The problem is that then requires the caller to carefully
read the number of threads returned and adjust its next "first" value
accordingly. The interface is much simpler to use if we simply return
exactly what is asked for and no more.
