1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
19 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
20 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
21 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
23 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
25 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
26 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
27 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
28 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
29 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
30 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
35 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
36 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
39 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
42 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
44 Command Line Interface
45 ----------------------
47 Database revision tracking
49 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
50 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
51 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
52 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
57 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
59 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
60 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
62 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
64 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
65 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
66 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
68 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>".
70 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
72 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
73 customization as well.
78 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
79 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
81 Database revision tracking
83 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
84 query parser and the new function
85 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
87 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}.
91 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
92 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
93 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
94 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
99 nmbug-status now supports specifying the sort order for each view
101 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
102 ===========================
107 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
109 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
110 ===========================
115 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
117 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
118 =========================
120 Command-Line Interface
121 ----------------------
123 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
125 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
126 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
127 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
129 Path to gpg is now configurable
131 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
132 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
137 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
139 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
144 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
149 Support messages without Message-IDs.
154 Undeprecate single message mboxes
156 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
157 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
159 New error logging facility
161 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
162 output formerly printed to stderr.
164 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
166 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
168 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
170 Fix for rounding of seconds
175 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
177 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
178 docmumentation has been removed.
180 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
182 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
183 some material from the relicensed wiki.
188 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
189 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
190 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
195 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
196 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
197 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
198 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
199 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
200 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
203 git checkout config origin/config
205 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
207 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
208 =========================
213 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
214 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
215 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
216 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
217 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
218 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
219 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
221 Command-Line Interface
222 ----------------------
224 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
226 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
227 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
228 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
229 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
230 script callers should still check the return value.
232 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
234 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
235 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
236 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
237 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
238 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
239 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
240 and returning success even if indexing fails).
242 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
244 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
245 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
246 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
248 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
250 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
251 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
252 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
253 currently unmaintained.
255 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
257 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
258 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
259 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
260 have at least `N` files associated with them.
262 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
264 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
265 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
266 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
267 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
268 count of duplicate addresses.
273 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
275 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
276 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
277 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
280 Improved handling of the unread tag
282 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
283 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
284 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
285 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
286 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
287 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
288 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
290 Expanded default saved search settings
292 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
293 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
295 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
297 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
298 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
299 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
301 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
303 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
304 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
305 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
306 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
307 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
308 the variable for details.
313 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
315 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
316 Representing these independently of the database version number will
317 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
318 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
320 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
322 Previously, library users were required to call
323 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
324 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
325 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
326 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
327 too out of date for that API.
329 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
331 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
332 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
333 atomic section will be aborted.
335 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
336 `notmuch_database_destroy`
338 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
340 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
341 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
342 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
343 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
344 messages into the same thread.
349 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
350 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
351 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
352 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
353 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
354 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
359 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
360 from the config file. Use something like:
364 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
365 "footer": "</body></html>",
374 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
379 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
380 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
381 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
383 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
384 ===========================
389 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
391 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
393 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
395 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
396 structure for signatures changed slightly.
398 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
400 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
403 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
404 ===========================
406 This is a bug fix and portability release.
411 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
413 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
415 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
417 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
419 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
425 Use --quick when starting emacs
427 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
429 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
431 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
433 Command-Line Interface
434 ----------------------
436 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
437 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
442 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
444 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
445 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
447 Fix for phrase indexing
449 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
450 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
451 will affect only newly indexed messages.
456 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
458 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
459 unintentionally removed.
461 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
462 =========================
467 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
468 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
469 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
470 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
471 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
472 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
473 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
474 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
475 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
481 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
483 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
484 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
485 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
486 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
487 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
488 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
489 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
490 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
492 There is a new `path:` search prefix
494 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
495 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
496 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
497 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
500 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
502 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
503 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
504 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
505 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
506 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
507 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
508 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
513 Notmuch database upgrade
515 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
516 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
517 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
518 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
519 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
520 released version of Notmuch before now.
522 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
524 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
525 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
526 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
527 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
529 Message header parsing changes
531 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
532 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
533 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
534 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
535 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
536 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
538 Command-Line Interface
539 ----------------------
541 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
543 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
545 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
547 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
549 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
551 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
552 user does not want it.
554 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
556 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
557 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
558 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
559 support formatted output.
561 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
563 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
564 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
565 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
573 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
574 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
575 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
576 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
577 `~/.emacs` with these.
579 Changed format for saved searches
581 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
582 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
583 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
584 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
587 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
588 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
589 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
590 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
592 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
593 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
594 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
596 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
597 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
598 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
599 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
600 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
602 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
604 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
605 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
606 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
608 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
610 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
611 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
612 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
613 message had been unread).
615 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
616 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
617 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
618 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
620 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
621 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
622 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
624 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
625 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
626 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
627 to tags already present.
631 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
632 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
633 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
634 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
635 these differ from each other.
636 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
638 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
640 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
641 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
642 for these Emacs versions.
644 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
646 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
647 newlines before calling notmuch count.
649 Bug fixes for sender identities
651 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
652 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
653 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
655 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
657 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
658 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
659 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
660 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
662 Reply pushes mark before signature
664 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
665 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
666 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
668 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
670 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
671 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
677 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
678 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
680 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
681 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
682 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
683 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
685 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
686 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
687 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
688 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
689 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
691 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
693 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
694 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
696 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
697 =========================
699 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
700 ---------------------------------------
702 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
703 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
704 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
705 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
706 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
707 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
708 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
712 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
713 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
715 Command-Line Interface
716 ----------------------
718 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
720 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
721 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
722 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
723 print for each message.
725 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
726 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
727 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
728 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
730 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
732 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
733 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
734 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
736 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
738 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
739 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
740 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
741 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
743 `notmuch compact` command
745 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
746 functionality through a more convenient interface than
747 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
748 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
749 move the compacted database into place.
754 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
756 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
757 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
758 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
759 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
760 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
761 and multiple threads.
765 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
767 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
768 search, show and tree mode itself)
770 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
773 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
774 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
776 Customising `notmuch-tree`
778 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
779 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
780 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
781 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
782 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
783 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
784 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
786 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
788 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
789 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
790 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
791 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
792 thread when the search was performed.
794 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
796 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
797 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
798 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
800 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
802 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
803 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
806 Built-in help improvements
808 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
809 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
810 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
812 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
814 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
815 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
816 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
818 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
820 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
821 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
823 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
825 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
826 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
827 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
828 to move some of them to the common keymap.
830 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
832 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
833 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
834 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
835 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
837 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
839 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
840 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
841 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
843 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
845 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
846 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
847 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
849 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
851 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
852 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
853 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
854 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
855 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
857 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
859 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
860 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
861 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
862 the body part of the message.
867 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
868 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
869 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
871 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
872 =========================
874 Command-Line Interface
875 ----------------------
877 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
879 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
880 folder and notmuch index.
882 `notmuch count --batch` option
884 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
885 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
887 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
889 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
890 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
891 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
894 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
896 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
897 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
898 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
899 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
900 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
903 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
905 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
906 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
908 Top level option to specify configuration file
910 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
911 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
913 Bash command-line completion
915 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
916 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
917 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
918 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
919 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
920 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
921 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
922 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
923 bash-completion package.
925 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
930 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
932 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
933 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
934 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
935 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
936 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
937 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
938 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
939 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
941 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
943 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
944 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
945 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
947 Key bindings for next/previous thread
949 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
950 previous thread in the search results.
952 Better handling of errors in search buffers
954 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
955 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
957 Faster search and show
959 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
960 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
961 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
962 threads should show faster.
966 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
967 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
968 in question was now removed from this release.
973 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
974 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
979 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
981 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
982 ===========================
987 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
989 Internal test framework changes
990 -------------------------------
992 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
995 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
996 ===========================
998 Internal test framework changes
999 -------------------------------
1001 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1002 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1004 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1005 =========================
1010 Date range search support
1012 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1013 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1014 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1015 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1016 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1019 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1021 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1022 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1023 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1024 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1025 but may be removed in a future release.
1027 Command-Line Interface
1028 ----------------------
1030 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1032 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1033 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1035 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1037 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1038 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1039 officially deprecated.
1041 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1043 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1044 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1045 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1047 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1049 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1050 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1053 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1054 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1055 dump/restore format.
1057 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1059 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1060 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1061 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1063 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1065 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1066 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1067 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1069 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1071 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1072 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1073 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1074 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1079 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1081 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1082 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1083 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1084 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1086 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1088 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1089 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1090 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1091 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1092 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1093 the behavior of this, see
1094 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1095 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1097 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1098 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1099 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1101 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1103 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1104 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1107 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1109 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1110 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1111 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1112 simply displayed in place of the message.
1114 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1116 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1117 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1119 Improved text/calendar content handling
1121 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1122 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1123 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1124 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1126 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1128 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1129 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1130 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1131 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1133 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1135 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1136 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1137 for HTML email containing images.
1139 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1141 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1143 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1145 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1148 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1150 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1151 the point where it was.
1153 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1155 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1156 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1157 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1158 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1159 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1161 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1163 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1164 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1165 thread instead of the message id.
1167 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1168 -----------------------------
1170 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1171 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1172 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1173 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1174 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1175 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1176 further details and installation.
1181 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1183 Internal test framework changes
1184 -------------------------------
1186 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1188 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1189 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1190 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1191 can result in buggy behavior.
1193 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1194 =========================
1199 Maildir tag synchronization
1201 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1202 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1203 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1204 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1205 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1206 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1209 Command-Line Interface
1210 ----------------------
1212 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1213 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1214 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1215 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1216 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1222 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1224 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1226 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1227 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1228 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1230 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1232 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1233 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1234 span multiple lines.
1236 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1238 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1239 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1240 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1241 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1242 inside the result or message.
1244 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1246 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1247 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1249 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1250 user-specified formatting
1252 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1253 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1254 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1255 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1256 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1258 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1259 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1261 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1262 ===========================
1267 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1268 compilation error for this contrib package.
1270 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1271 ===========================
1276 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1278 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1279 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1280 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1281 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1283 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1284 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1287 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1288 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1289 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1290 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1293 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1295 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1298 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1299 =========================
1301 Command-Line Interface
1302 ----------------------
1306 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1307 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1308 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1309 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1311 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1312 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1313 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1314 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1318 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1319 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1321 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1322 tag in your query, for example:
1324 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1326 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1327 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1329 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1330 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1332 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1334 Raw show format changes
1336 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1337 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1338 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1339 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1340 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1341 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1342 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1343 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1345 Listing configuration items
1347 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1353 Changes to tagging interface
1355 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1356 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1357 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1358 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1359 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1360 for more information.
1362 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1363 may need to update in custom configurations.
1365 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1367 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1368 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1369 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1370 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1373 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1374 -----------------------------
1376 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1377 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1378 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1379 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1380 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1381 contrib/ from now on.
1386 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1387 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1389 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1390 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1392 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1393 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1394 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1396 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1397 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1399 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1400 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1401 returning the new database object or directory object.
1408 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1409 compatible with go 1.
1411 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1412 =========================
1414 Command-Line Interface
1415 ----------------------
1419 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1420 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1421 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1422 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1424 Mail store folder/file ignore
1426 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1427 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1428 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1430 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1431 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1433 Unified help and manual pages
1435 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1436 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1439 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1441 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1442 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1450 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1451 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1452 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1453 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1455 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1457 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1458 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1460 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1463 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1464 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1465 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1467 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1469 should be changed to:
1471 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1473 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1475 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1476 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1478 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1480 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1481 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1482 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1483 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1484 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1485 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1489 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1490 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1491 of Mailing List Archives.
1493 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1495 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1496 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1499 Show view archiving key binding changes
1501 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1502 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1503 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1504 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1505 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1508 Support text/calendar MIME type
1510 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1513 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1515 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1516 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1517 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1518 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1520 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1522 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1523 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1524 messages blue by default in the search view.
1528 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1529 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1536 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1539 Python bindings changes
1540 -----------------------
1542 Python 3.2 compatibility
1544 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1546 Added missing unicode conversions
1548 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1549 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1550 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1555 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1557 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1558 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1559 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1560 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1561 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1563 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1564 ===========================
1569 Fix error handling in python bindings
1571 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1572 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1573 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1574 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1576 Quote MML tags in replies
1578 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1579 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1580 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1581 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1582 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1583 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1584 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1585 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1587 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1588 =========================
1590 Command-Line Interface
1591 ----------------------
1595 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1596 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1597 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1598 importing new messages into the database.
1600 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1602 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1603 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1604 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1609 Automatic tag query optimization
1611 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1612 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1613 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1615 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1617 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1618 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1619 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1624 Reduction of memory leaks
1626 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1627 and fixed in this release.
1634 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1635 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1636 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1639 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1641 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1642 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1643 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1646 Improvements in saved search management
1648 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1649 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1650 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1652 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1654 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1655 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1656 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1658 New face for crypto parts headers
1660 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1661 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1662 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1665 Use space as default thousands separator
1667 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1668 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1669 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1671 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1672 buttonized id: links
1674 New function notmuch-show-advance
1676 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1677 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1678 be bound to SPC with:
1680 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1682 Various performance improvements
1687 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1688 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1691 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1692 ===========================
1697 Fix crash in python bindings
1699 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1700 for some, but not all users.
1702 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1703 ===========================
1708 Fix `--help` argument
1710 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1711 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1712 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1714 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1715 =========================
1717 New build and testing features
1718 ------------------------------
1720 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1721 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1722 prerequisites is improved.
1724 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1726 New command-line features
1727 -------------------------
1729 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1731 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1732 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1735 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1737 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1738 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1739 favour of using stdout.
1741 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1743 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1744 limit the number of results shown.
1746 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1748 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1749 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1752 New emacs UI features
1753 ---------------------
1755 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1757 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1758 starting with "tag:".
1760 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1762 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1763 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1765 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1767 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1769 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1771 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1772 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1777 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1779 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1781 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1782 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1783 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1784 requires a database rebuild:
1786 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1787 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1789 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1791 New collection of add-on tools
1792 ------------------------------
1794 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1795 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1796 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1799 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1801 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1802 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1803 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1805 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1806 ========================
1808 New, general features
1809 ---------------------
1811 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1813 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1814 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1815 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1816 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1817 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1824 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1825 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1827 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1831 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1832 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1833 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1836 Python bindings changes
1837 -----------------------
1839 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1841 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1842 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1843 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1844 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1845 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1846 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1848 Ruby bindings changes
1849 ---------------------
1851 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1852 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1853 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1854 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1859 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1861 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1862 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1864 Reply formatting cleanup
1865 ------------------------
1867 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1868 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1870 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1871 ========================
1873 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1875 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1876 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1877 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1878 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1881 Improved Build system portability
1883 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1884 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1885 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1887 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1889 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1891 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1893 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1894 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1895 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1897 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1898 ========================
1900 Vim interface improvements
1901 --------------------------
1903 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1905 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1906 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1907 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1908 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1909 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1911 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1913 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1914 * fix compose temp file name
1916 Python Bindings changes
1917 -----------------------
1919 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1921 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1922 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1924 Build-System improvements
1925 -------------------------
1927 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1929 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1932 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1933 ==========================
1938 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1940 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1941 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1943 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1944 =======================
1946 New, general features
1947 ---------------------
1949 Folder-based searching
1951 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1952 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1953 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1957 For example, one might use things such as:
1963 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1964 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1966 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1967 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1968 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1969 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1971 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1972 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1973 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1976 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1977 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1979 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1981 Support for PGP/MIME
1983 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1984 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1985 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1987 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1989 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1990 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1992 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1993 notmuch will receive these tags.
1995 New command-line features
1996 -------------------------
1998 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2000 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2001 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2003 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2005 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2006 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2007 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2009 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2011 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2012 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2013 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2014 which parts a signature part applies).
2016 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2018 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2019 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2020 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2021 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2022 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2025 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2027 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2028 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2029 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2030 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2031 by translating it internally to the new call.
2033 Performance improvements
2034 ------------------------
2036 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2038 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2039 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2040 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2042 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2043 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2045 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2047 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2048 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2049 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2051 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2052 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2053 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2054 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2056 Faster initial indexing
2058 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2059 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2060 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2062 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2064 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2065 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2066 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2067 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2069 New emacs-interface features
2070 ----------------------------
2072 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2074 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2075 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2076 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2077 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2078 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2079 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2081 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2083 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2084 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2085 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2086 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2088 User-selectable From address
2090 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2091 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2092 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2093 will prompt for the from address to use.
2095 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2096 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2097 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2099 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2100 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2101 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2104 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2106 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2107 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2109 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2111 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2113 ----- Original Message -----
2115 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2116 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2117 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2118 citations work much like conventional citations.
2120 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2122 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2123 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2124 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2125 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2126 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2128 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2129 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2131 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2133 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2134 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2135 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2137 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2139 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2140 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2141 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2142 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2143 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2145 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2147 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2150 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2152 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2154 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2156 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2159 Vim interface improvements
2160 --------------------------
2162 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2164 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2165 * Implementing archive in show view
2166 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2167 * Add delete commands
2170 Bindings improvements
2171 ---------------------
2173 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2175 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2176 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2178 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2180 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2184 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2185 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2186 `list(Messages)` works now
2187 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2189 These allow, for example:
2191 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2193 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2195 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2201 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2203 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2206 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2208 New build-system features
2209 -------------------------
2211 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2213 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2214 the configure script from some other directory:
2221 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2223 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2224 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2225 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2226 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2227 manual invocation of configure.
2229 New test-suite feature
2230 ----------------------
2232 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2234 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2235 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2236 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2237 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2238 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2241 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2243 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2244 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2245 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2246 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2247 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2248 are updated to take advantage of this.
2250 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2252 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2253 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2254 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2255 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2261 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2263 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2264 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2265 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2267 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2269 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2271 to:user@elsewhere.com
2273 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2275 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2277 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2279 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2280 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2281 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2284 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2285 from the Received headers in some cases
2287 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2288 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2290 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2292 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2294 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2296 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2297 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2298 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2300 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2301 -------------------------
2303 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2305 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2306 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2307 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2309 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2311 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2312 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2313 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2316 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2318 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2319 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2320 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2321 fixed to avoid this bug.
2323 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2325 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2326 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2328 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2329 ========================
2331 New, general features
2332 ---------------------
2334 Maildir-flag synchronization
2336 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2337 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2346 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2348 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2349 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2350 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2351 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2353 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2354 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2355 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2356 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2359 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2361 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2362 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2363 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2365 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2366 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2368 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2369 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2371 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2372 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2373 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2375 New library features
2376 --------------------
2378 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2380 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2381 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2382 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2383 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2385 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2386 message with the new function:
2388 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2390 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2391 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2392 over all available filenames for a given message.
2394 New command-line features
2395 -------------------------
2397 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2399 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2400 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2401 access to the mail store itself.
2403 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2404 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2405 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2406 name of a script containing:
2408 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2410 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2411 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2417 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2419 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2421 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2423 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2424 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2425 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2426 now produces nothing).
2428 Emacs interface improvements
2429 ----------------------------
2431 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2433 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2435 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2437 Display current thread subject in a header line
2439 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2441 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2443 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2444 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2445 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2446 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2447 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2448 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2449 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2451 Vim interface improvements
2452 --------------------------
2454 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2456 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2457 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2463 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2465 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2466 ========================
2468 New command-line features
2469 -------------------------
2471 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2473 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2474 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2475 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2477 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2478 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2479 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2480 scripts. For example:
2482 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2483 <operations-on> "$file"
2486 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2488 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2489 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2490 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2491 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2492 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2493 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2495 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2497 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2498 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2499 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2500 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2502 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2504 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2505 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2506 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2507 default rather than Bcc.
2509 New library features
2510 --------------------
2512 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2514 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2515 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2520 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2522 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2523 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2524 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2525 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2526 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2527 notmuch customize interface.
2529 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2531 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2532 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2533 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2534 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2536 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2538 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2539 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2540 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2541 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2543 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2545 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2546 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2547 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2548 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2549 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2550 notmuch customize interface.
2552 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2554 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2555 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2556 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2557 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2558 notmuch customize interface.
2560 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2562 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2563 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2564 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2565 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2568 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2570 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2571 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2572 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2575 New build-system features
2576 -------------------------
2578 Various portability fixes have been applied
2580 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2581 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2582 more portable than ever before.
2584 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2586 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2587 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2588 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2590 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2591 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2592 automatically run ldconfig.
2594 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2595 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2596 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2598 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2599 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2600 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2601 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2603 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2605 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2606 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2607 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2608 used in the resulting Makefile.
2610 New test-suite features
2611 -----------------------
2613 New modularization of test suite
2615 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2616 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2617 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2618 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2619 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2620 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2621 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2622 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2624 New testing of emacs interface
2626 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2627 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2628 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2629 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2630 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2631 database via the FCC setting.
2636 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2638 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2639 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2640 persistent error of the form:
2642 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2644 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2645 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2647 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2649 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2650 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2651 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2653 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2655 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2656 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2657 parsing the notmuch results).
2659 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2661 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2664 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2665 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2666 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2671 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2673 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2674 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2675 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2676 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2677 the emacs interface.
2679 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2681 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2682 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2683 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2685 Python-binding fixes
2686 --------------------
2688 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2690 Debian-specific fixes
2691 ---------------------
2693 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2695 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2696 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2697 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2700 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2701 ==========================
2706 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2708 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2709 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2710 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2711 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2713 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2715 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2716 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2717 want notmuch to crash.
2722 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2724 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2725 directory does not exist
2730 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2732 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2733 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2735 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2736 ========================
2738 New command-line features
2739 -------------------------
2741 User-configurable tags for new messages
2743 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2744 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2745 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2746 to specify this value.
2748 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2750 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2751 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2752 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2754 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2756 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2757 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2759 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2761 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2762 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2763 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2764 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2765 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2768 Indication of author names that match a search
2770 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2771 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2772 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2773 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2774 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2775 messages in the thread are listed first.
2777 New: Python bindings
2778 --------------------
2780 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2781 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2782 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2783 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2785 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2786 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2787 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2790 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2791 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2792 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2794 Emacs interface improvements
2795 ----------------------------
2797 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2799 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2800 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2801 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2802 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2803 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2804 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2805 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2806 but without any of the disadvantages).
2808 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2809 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2810 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2813 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2814 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2815 instead running something like:
2817 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2819 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2820 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2821 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2824 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2826 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2827 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2828 tweaked by the user.
2830 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2831 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2832 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2835 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2836 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2837 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2840 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2842 This support currently relies on an external program,
2843 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2844 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2845 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2846 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2847 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2850 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2851 notmuch) is available via:
2853 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2855 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2856 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2857 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2859 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2861 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2862 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2863 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2864 making this automatic in a future release.
2866 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2868 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2869 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2870 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2871 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2872 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2873 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2876 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2878 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2879 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2880 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2882 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2884 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2885 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2886 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2888 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2889 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2890 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2891 other representation.
2893 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2894 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2897 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2899 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2900 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2901 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2903 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2904 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2905 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2907 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2909 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2910 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2911 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2912 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2913 to display the search result.
2915 More flexible handling of header visibility
2917 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2918 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2919 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2920 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2921 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2922 with the 'h' keybinding.
2924 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2925 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2926 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2928 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2930 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2932 Customizable formatting of search results
2934 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2935 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2936 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2938 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2940 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2942 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2947 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2949 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2950 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2951 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2952 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2958 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2960 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2961 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2963 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2965 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2966 accept are now all accepted.
2971 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2973 Better display of output from failed tests
2975 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2976 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2978 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2979 ========================
2981 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2982 detailed release notes this time!
2984 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2985 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2987 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2988 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2989 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2990 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2997 Better guessing of From: header
2999 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3000 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3001 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3002 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3003 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3006 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3008 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3009 guaranteed to match all messages.
3011 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3013 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3014 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3015 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3016 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3017 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3020 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3023 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3024 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3025 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3026 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3031 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3033 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3034 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3035 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3036 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3038 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3040 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3042 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3043 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3044 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3046 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3048 Previously, the user might see:
3050 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3054 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3056 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3057 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3058 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3059 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3061 Emacs client features
3062 ---------------------
3064 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3066 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3067 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3068 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3069 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3070 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3072 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3075 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3076 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3077 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3078 search with the '*' binding.
3080 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3082 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3083 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3086 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3088 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3089 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3090 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3092 Build-system features
3093 ---------------------
3095 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3097 Add support to configure for many standard options
3099 We include actual support for:
3101 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3103 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3105 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3106 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3108 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3109 separate "make install-emacs"
3111 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3113 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3114 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3115 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3117 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3120 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3121 ========================
3123 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3125 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3126 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3128 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3129 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3130 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3131 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3132 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3133 tags from messages in a thread.
3140 indent-tabs-mode: nil