1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
9 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
10 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
12 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
14 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
15 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
16 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
21 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
22 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
24 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
25 ===========================
30 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
32 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
33 ===========================
38 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
40 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
41 =========================
43 Command-Line Interface
44 ----------------------
46 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
48 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
49 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
50 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
52 Path to gpg is now configurable
54 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
55 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
60 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
62 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
67 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
72 Support messages without Message-IDs.
77 Undeprecate single message mboxes
79 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
80 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
82 New error logging facility
84 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
85 output formerly printed to stderr.
87 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
89 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
91 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
93 Fix for rounding of seconds
98 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
100 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
101 docmumentation has been removed.
103 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
105 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
106 some material from the relicensed wiki.
111 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
112 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
113 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
118 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
119 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
120 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
121 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
122 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
123 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
126 git checkout config origin/config
128 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
130 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
131 =========================
136 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
137 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
138 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
139 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
140 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
141 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
142 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
144 Command-Line Interface
145 ----------------------
147 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
149 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
150 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
151 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
152 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
153 script callers should still check the return value.
155 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
157 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
158 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
159 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
160 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
161 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
162 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
163 and returning success even if indexing fails).
165 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
167 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
168 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
169 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
171 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
173 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
174 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
175 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
176 currently unmaintained.
178 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
180 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
181 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
182 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
183 have at least `N` files associated with them.
185 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
187 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
188 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
189 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
190 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
191 count of duplicate addresses.
196 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
198 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
199 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
200 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
203 Improved handling of the unread tag
205 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
206 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
207 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
208 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
209 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
210 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
211 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
213 Expanded default saved search settings
215 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
216 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
218 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
220 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
221 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
222 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
224 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
226 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
227 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
228 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
229 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
230 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
231 the variable for details.
236 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
238 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
239 Representing these independently of the database version number will
240 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
241 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
243 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
245 Previously, library users were required to call
246 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
247 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
248 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
249 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
250 too out of date for that API.
252 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
254 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
255 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
256 atomic section will be aborted.
258 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
259 `notmuch_database_destroy`
261 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
263 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
264 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
265 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
266 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
267 messages into the same thread.
272 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
273 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
274 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
275 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
276 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
277 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
282 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
283 from the config file. Use something like:
287 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
288 "footer": "</body></html>",
297 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
302 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
303 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
304 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
306 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
307 ===========================
312 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
314 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
316 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
318 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
319 structure for signatures changed slightly.
321 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
323 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
326 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
327 ===========================
329 This is a bug fix and portability release.
334 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
336 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
338 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
340 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
342 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
348 Use --quick when starting emacs
350 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
352 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
354 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
356 Command-Line Interface
357 ----------------------
359 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
360 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
365 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
367 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
368 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
370 Fix for phrase indexing
372 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
373 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
374 will affect only newly indexed messages.
379 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
381 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
382 unintentionally removed.
384 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
385 =========================
390 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
391 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
392 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
393 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
394 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
395 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
396 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
397 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
398 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
404 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
406 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
407 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
408 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
409 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
410 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
411 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
412 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
413 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
415 There is a new `path:` search prefix
417 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
418 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
419 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
420 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
423 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
425 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
426 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
427 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
428 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
429 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
430 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
431 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
436 Notmuch database upgrade
438 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
439 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
440 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
441 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
442 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
443 released version of Notmuch before now.
445 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
447 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
448 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
449 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
450 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
452 Message header parsing changes
454 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
455 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
456 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
457 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
458 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
459 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
461 Command-Line Interface
462 ----------------------
464 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
466 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
468 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
470 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
472 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
474 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
475 user does not want it.
477 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
479 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
480 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
481 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
482 support formatted output.
484 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
486 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
487 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
488 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
496 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
497 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
498 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
499 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
500 `~/.emacs` with these.
502 Changed format for saved searches
504 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
505 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
506 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
507 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
510 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
511 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
512 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
513 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
515 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
516 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
517 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
519 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
520 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
521 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
522 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
523 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
525 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
527 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
528 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
529 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
531 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
533 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
534 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
535 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
536 message had been unread).
538 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
539 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
540 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
541 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
543 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
544 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
545 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
547 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
548 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
549 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
550 to tags already present.
554 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
555 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
556 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
557 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
558 these differ from each other.
559 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
561 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
563 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
564 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
565 for these Emacs versions.
567 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
569 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
570 newlines before calling notmuch count.
572 Bug fixes for sender identities
574 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
575 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
576 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
578 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
580 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
581 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
582 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
583 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
585 Reply pushes mark before signature
587 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
588 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
589 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
591 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
593 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
594 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
600 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
601 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
603 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
604 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
605 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
606 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
608 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
609 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
610 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
611 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
612 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
614 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
616 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
617 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
619 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
620 =========================
622 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
623 ---------------------------------------
625 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
626 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
627 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
628 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
629 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
630 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
631 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
635 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
636 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
638 Command-Line Interface
639 ----------------------
641 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
643 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
644 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
645 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
646 print for each message.
648 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
649 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
650 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
651 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
653 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
655 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
656 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
657 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
659 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
661 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
662 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
663 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
664 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
666 `notmuch compact` command
668 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
669 functionality through a more convenient interface than
670 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
671 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
672 move the compacted database into place.
677 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
679 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
680 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
681 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
682 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
683 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
684 and multiple threads.
688 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
690 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
691 search, show and tree mode itself)
693 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
696 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
697 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
699 Customising `notmuch-tree`
701 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
702 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
703 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
704 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
705 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
706 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
707 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
709 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
711 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
712 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
713 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
714 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
715 thread when the search was performed.
717 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
719 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
720 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
721 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
723 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
725 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
726 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
729 Built-in help improvements
731 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
732 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
733 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
735 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
737 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
738 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
739 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
741 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
743 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
744 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
746 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
748 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
749 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
750 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
751 to move some of them to the common keymap.
753 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
755 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
756 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
757 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
758 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
760 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
762 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
763 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
764 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
766 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
768 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
769 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
770 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
772 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
774 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
775 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
776 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
777 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
778 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
780 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
782 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
783 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
784 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
785 the body part of the message.
790 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
791 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
792 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
794 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
795 =========================
797 Command-Line Interface
798 ----------------------
800 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
802 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
803 folder and notmuch index.
805 `notmuch count --batch` option
807 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
808 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
810 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
812 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
813 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
814 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
817 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
819 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
820 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
821 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
822 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
823 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
826 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
828 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
829 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
831 Top level option to specify configuration file
833 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
834 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
836 Bash command-line completion
838 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
839 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
840 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
841 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
842 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
843 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
844 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
845 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
846 bash-completion package.
848 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
853 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
855 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
856 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
857 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
858 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
859 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
860 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
861 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
862 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
864 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
866 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
867 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
868 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
870 Key bindings for next/previous thread
872 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
873 previous thread in the search results.
875 Better handling of errors in search buffers
877 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
878 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
880 Faster search and show
882 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
883 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
884 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
885 threads should show faster.
889 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
890 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
891 in question was now removed from this release.
896 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
897 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
902 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
904 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
905 ===========================
910 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
912 Internal test framework changes
913 -------------------------------
915 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
918 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
919 ===========================
921 Internal test framework changes
922 -------------------------------
924 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
925 build failures in non-interactive environments.
927 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
928 =========================
933 Date range search support
935 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
936 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
937 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
938 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
939 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
942 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
944 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
945 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
946 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
947 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
948 but may be removed in a future release.
950 Command-Line Interface
951 ----------------------
953 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
955 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
956 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
958 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
960 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
961 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
962 officially deprecated.
964 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
966 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
967 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
968 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
970 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
972 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
973 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
976 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
977 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
980 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
982 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
983 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
984 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
986 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
988 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
989 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
990 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
992 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
994 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
995 output separated by null characters rather than newline
996 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
997 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1002 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1004 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1005 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1006 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1007 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1009 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1011 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1012 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1013 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1014 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1015 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1016 the behavior of this, see
1017 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1018 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1020 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1021 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1022 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1024 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1026 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1027 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1030 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1032 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1033 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1034 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1035 simply displayed in place of the message.
1037 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1039 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1040 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1042 Improved text/calendar content handling
1044 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1045 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1046 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1047 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1049 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1051 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1052 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1053 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1054 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1056 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1058 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1059 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1060 for HTML email containing images.
1062 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1064 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1066 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1068 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1071 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1073 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1074 the point where it was.
1076 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1078 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1079 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1080 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1081 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1082 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1084 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1086 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1087 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1088 thread instead of the message id.
1090 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1091 -----------------------------
1093 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1094 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1095 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1096 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1097 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1098 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1099 further details and installation.
1104 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1106 Internal test framework changes
1107 -------------------------------
1109 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1111 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1112 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1113 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1114 can result in buggy behavior.
1116 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1117 =========================
1122 Maildir tag synchronization
1124 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1125 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1126 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1127 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1128 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1129 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1132 Command-Line Interface
1133 ----------------------
1135 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1136 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1137 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1138 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1139 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1145 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1147 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1149 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1150 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1151 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1153 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1155 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1156 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1157 span multiple lines.
1159 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1161 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1162 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1163 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1164 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1165 inside the result or message.
1167 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1169 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1170 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1172 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1173 user-specified formatting
1175 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1176 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1177 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1178 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1179 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1181 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1182 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1184 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1185 ===========================
1190 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1191 compilation error for this contrib package.
1193 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1194 ===========================
1199 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1201 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1202 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1203 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1204 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1206 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1207 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1210 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1211 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1212 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1213 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1216 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1218 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1221 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1222 =========================
1224 Command-Line Interface
1225 ----------------------
1229 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1230 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1231 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1232 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1234 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1235 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1236 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1237 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1241 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1242 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1244 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1245 tag in your query, for example:
1247 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1249 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1250 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1252 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1253 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1255 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1257 Raw show format changes
1259 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1260 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1261 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1262 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1263 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1264 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1265 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1266 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1268 Listing configuration items
1270 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1276 Changes to tagging interface
1278 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1279 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1280 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1281 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1282 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1283 for more information.
1285 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1286 may need to update in custom configurations.
1288 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1290 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1291 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1292 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1293 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1296 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1297 -----------------------------
1299 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1300 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1301 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1302 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1303 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1304 contrib/ from now on.
1309 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1310 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1312 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1313 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1315 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1316 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1317 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1319 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1320 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1322 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1323 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1324 returning the new database object or directory object.
1331 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1332 compatible with go 1.
1334 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1335 =========================
1337 Command-Line Interface
1338 ----------------------
1342 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1343 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1344 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1345 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1347 Mail store folder/file ignore
1349 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1350 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1351 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1353 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1354 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1356 Unified help and manual pages
1358 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1359 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1362 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1364 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1365 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1373 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1374 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1375 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1376 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1378 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1380 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1381 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1383 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1386 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1387 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1388 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1390 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1392 should be changed to:
1394 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1396 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1398 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1399 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1401 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1403 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1404 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1405 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1406 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1407 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1408 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1412 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1413 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1414 of Mailing List Archives.
1416 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1418 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1419 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1422 Show view archiving key binding changes
1424 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1425 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1426 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1427 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1428 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1431 Support text/calendar MIME type
1433 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1436 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1438 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1439 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1440 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1441 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1443 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1445 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1446 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1447 messages blue by default in the search view.
1451 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1452 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1459 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1462 Python bindings changes
1463 -----------------------
1465 Python 3.2 compatibility
1467 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1469 Added missing unicode conversions
1471 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1472 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1473 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1478 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1480 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1481 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1482 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1483 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1484 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1486 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1487 ===========================
1492 Fix error handling in python bindings
1494 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1495 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1496 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1497 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1499 Quote MML tags in replies
1501 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1502 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1503 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1504 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1505 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1506 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1507 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1508 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1510 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1511 =========================
1513 Command-Line Interface
1514 ----------------------
1518 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1519 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1520 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1521 importing new messages into the database.
1523 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1525 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1526 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1527 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1532 Automatic tag query optimization
1534 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1535 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1536 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1538 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1540 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1541 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1542 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1547 Reduction of memory leaks
1549 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1550 and fixed in this release.
1557 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1558 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1559 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1562 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1564 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1565 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1566 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1569 Improvements in saved search management
1571 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1572 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1573 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1575 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1577 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1578 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1579 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1581 New face for crypto parts headers
1583 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1584 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1585 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1588 Use space as default thousands separator
1590 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1591 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1592 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1594 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1595 buttonized id: links
1597 New function notmuch-show-advance
1599 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1600 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1601 be bound to SPC with:
1603 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1605 Various performance improvements
1610 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1611 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1614 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1615 ===========================
1620 Fix crash in python bindings
1622 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1623 for some, but not all users.
1625 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1626 ===========================
1631 Fix `--help` argument
1633 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1634 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1635 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1637 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1638 =========================
1640 New build and testing features
1641 ------------------------------
1643 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1644 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1645 prerequisites is improved.
1647 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1649 New command-line features
1650 -------------------------
1652 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1654 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1655 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1658 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1660 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1661 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1662 favour of using stdout.
1664 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1666 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1667 limit the number of results shown.
1669 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1671 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1672 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1675 New emacs UI features
1676 ---------------------
1678 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1680 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1681 starting with "tag:".
1683 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1685 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1686 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1688 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1690 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1692 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1694 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1695 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1700 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1702 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1704 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1705 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1706 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1707 requires a database rebuild:
1709 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1710 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1712 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1714 New collection of add-on tools
1715 ------------------------------
1717 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1718 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1719 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1722 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1724 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1725 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1726 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1728 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1729 ========================
1731 New, general features
1732 ---------------------
1734 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1736 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1737 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1738 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1739 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1740 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1747 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1748 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1750 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1754 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1755 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1756 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1759 Python bindings changes
1760 -----------------------
1762 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1764 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1765 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1766 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1767 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1768 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1769 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1771 Ruby bindings changes
1772 ---------------------
1774 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1775 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1776 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1777 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1782 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1784 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1785 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1787 Reply formatting cleanup
1788 ------------------------
1790 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1791 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1793 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1794 ========================
1796 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1798 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1799 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1800 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1801 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1804 Improved Build system portability
1806 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1807 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1808 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1810 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1812 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1814 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1816 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1817 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1818 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1820 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1821 ========================
1823 Vim interface improvements
1824 --------------------------
1826 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1828 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1829 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1830 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1831 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1832 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1834 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1836 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1837 * fix compose temp file name
1839 Python Bindings changes
1840 -----------------------
1842 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1844 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1845 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1847 Build-System improvements
1848 -------------------------
1850 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1852 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1855 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1856 ==========================
1861 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1863 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1864 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1866 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1867 =======================
1869 New, general features
1870 ---------------------
1872 Folder-based searching
1874 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1875 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1876 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1880 For example, one might use things such as:
1886 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1887 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1889 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1890 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1891 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1892 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1894 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1895 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1896 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1899 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1900 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1902 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1904 Support for PGP/MIME
1906 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1907 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1908 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1910 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1912 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1913 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1915 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1916 notmuch will receive these tags.
1918 New command-line features
1919 -------------------------
1921 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1923 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1924 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1926 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1928 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1929 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1930 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1932 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1934 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1935 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1936 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1937 which parts a signature part applies).
1939 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1941 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1942 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1943 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1944 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1945 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1948 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1950 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1951 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1952 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1953 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1954 by translating it internally to the new call.
1956 Performance improvements
1957 ------------------------
1959 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1961 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1962 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1963 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1965 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1966 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1968 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1970 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1971 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1972 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1974 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1975 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1976 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1977 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1979 Faster initial indexing
1981 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1982 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1983 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1985 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1987 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1988 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1989 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1990 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1992 New emacs-interface features
1993 ----------------------------
1995 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1997 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1998 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1999 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2000 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2001 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2002 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2004 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2006 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2007 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2008 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2009 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2011 User-selectable From address
2013 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2014 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2015 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2016 will prompt for the from address to use.
2018 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2019 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2020 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2022 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2023 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2024 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2027 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2029 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2030 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2032 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2034 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2036 ----- Original Message -----
2038 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2039 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2040 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2041 citations work much like conventional citations.
2043 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2045 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2046 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2047 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2048 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2049 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2051 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2052 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2054 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2056 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2057 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2058 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2060 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2062 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2063 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2064 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2065 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2066 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2068 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2070 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2073 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2075 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2077 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2079 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2082 Vim interface improvements
2083 --------------------------
2085 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2087 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2088 * Implementing archive in show view
2089 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2090 * Add delete commands
2093 Bindings improvements
2094 ---------------------
2096 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2098 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2099 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2101 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2103 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2107 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2108 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2109 `list(Messages)` works now
2110 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2112 These allow, for example:
2114 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2116 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2118 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2124 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2126 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2129 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2131 New build-system features
2132 -------------------------
2134 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2136 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2137 the configure script from some other directory:
2144 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2146 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2147 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2148 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2149 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2150 manual invocation of configure.
2152 New test-suite feature
2153 ----------------------
2155 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2157 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2158 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2159 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2160 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2161 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2164 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2166 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2167 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2168 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2169 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2170 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2171 are updated to take advantage of this.
2173 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2175 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2176 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2177 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2178 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2184 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2186 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2187 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2188 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2190 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2192 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2194 to:user@elsewhere.com
2196 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2198 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2200 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2202 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2203 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2204 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2207 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2208 from the Received headers in some cases
2210 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2211 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2213 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2215 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2217 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2219 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2220 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2221 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2223 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2224 -------------------------
2226 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2228 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2229 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2230 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2232 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2234 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2235 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2236 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2239 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2241 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2242 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2243 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2244 fixed to avoid this bug.
2246 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2248 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2249 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2251 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2252 ========================
2254 New, general features
2255 ---------------------
2257 Maildir-flag synchronization
2259 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2260 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2269 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2271 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2272 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2273 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2274 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2276 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2277 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2278 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2279 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2282 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2284 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2285 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2286 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2288 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2289 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2291 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2292 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2294 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2295 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2296 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2298 New library features
2299 --------------------
2301 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2303 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2304 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2305 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2306 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2308 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2309 message with the new function:
2311 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2313 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2314 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2315 over all available filenames for a given message.
2317 New command-line features
2318 -------------------------
2320 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2322 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2323 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2324 access to the mail store itself.
2326 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2327 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2328 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2329 name of a script containing:
2331 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2333 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2334 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2340 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2342 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2344 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2346 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2347 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2348 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2349 now produces nothing).
2351 Emacs interface improvements
2352 ----------------------------
2354 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2356 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2358 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2360 Display current thread subject in a header line
2362 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2364 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2366 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2367 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2368 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2369 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2370 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2371 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2372 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2374 Vim interface improvements
2375 --------------------------
2377 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2379 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2380 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2386 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2388 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2389 ========================
2391 New command-line features
2392 -------------------------
2394 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2396 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2397 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2398 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2400 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2401 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2402 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2403 scripts. For example:
2405 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2406 <operations-on> "$file"
2409 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2411 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2412 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2413 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2414 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2415 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2416 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2418 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2420 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2421 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2422 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2423 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2425 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2427 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2428 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2429 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2430 default rather than Bcc.
2432 New library features
2433 --------------------
2435 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2437 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2438 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2443 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2445 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2446 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2447 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2448 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2449 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2450 notmuch customize interface.
2452 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2454 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2455 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2456 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2457 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2459 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2461 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2462 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2463 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2464 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2466 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2468 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2469 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2470 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2471 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2472 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2473 notmuch customize interface.
2475 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2477 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2478 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2479 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2480 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2481 notmuch customize interface.
2483 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2485 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2486 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2487 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2488 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2491 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2493 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2494 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2495 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2498 New build-system features
2499 -------------------------
2501 Various portability fixes have been applied
2503 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2504 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2505 more portable than ever before.
2507 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2509 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2510 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2511 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2513 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2514 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2515 automatically run ldconfig.
2517 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2518 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2519 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2521 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2522 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2523 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2524 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2526 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2528 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2529 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2530 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2531 used in the resulting Makefile.
2533 New test-suite features
2534 -----------------------
2536 New modularization of test suite
2538 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2539 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2540 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2541 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2542 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2543 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2544 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2545 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2547 New testing of emacs interface
2549 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2550 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2551 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2552 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2553 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2554 database via the FCC setting.
2559 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2561 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2562 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2563 persistent error of the form:
2565 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2567 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2568 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2570 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2572 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2573 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2574 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2576 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2578 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2579 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2580 parsing the notmuch results).
2582 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2584 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2587 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2588 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2589 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2594 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2596 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2597 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2598 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2599 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2600 the emacs interface.
2602 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2604 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2605 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2606 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2608 Python-binding fixes
2609 --------------------
2611 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2613 Debian-specific fixes
2614 ---------------------
2616 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2618 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2619 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2620 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2623 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2624 ==========================
2629 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2631 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2632 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2633 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2634 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2636 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2638 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2639 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2640 want notmuch to crash.
2645 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2647 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2648 directory does not exist
2653 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2655 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2656 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2658 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2659 ========================
2661 New command-line features
2662 -------------------------
2664 User-configurable tags for new messages
2666 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2667 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2668 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2669 to specify this value.
2671 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2673 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2674 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2675 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2677 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2679 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2680 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2682 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2684 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2685 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2686 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2687 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2688 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2691 Indication of author names that match a search
2693 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2694 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2695 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2696 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2697 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2698 messages in the thread are listed first.
2700 New: Python bindings
2701 --------------------
2703 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2704 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2705 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2706 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2708 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2709 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2710 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2713 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2714 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2715 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2717 Emacs interface improvements
2718 ----------------------------
2720 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2722 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2723 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2724 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2725 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2726 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2727 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2728 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2729 but without any of the disadvantages).
2731 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2732 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2733 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2736 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2737 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2738 instead running something like:
2740 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2742 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2743 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2744 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2747 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2749 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2750 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2751 tweaked by the user.
2753 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2754 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2755 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2758 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2759 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2760 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2763 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2765 This support currently relies on an external program,
2766 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2767 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2768 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2769 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2770 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2773 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2774 notmuch) is available via:
2776 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2778 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2779 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2780 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2782 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2784 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2785 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2786 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2787 making this automatic in a future release.
2789 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2791 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2792 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2793 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2794 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2795 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2796 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2799 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2801 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2802 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2803 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2805 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2807 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2808 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2809 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2811 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2812 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2813 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2814 other representation.
2816 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2817 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2820 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2822 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2823 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2824 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2826 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2827 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2828 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2830 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2832 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2833 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2834 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2835 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2836 to display the search result.
2838 More flexible handling of header visibility
2840 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2841 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2842 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2843 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2844 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2845 with the 'h' keybinding.
2847 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2848 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2849 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2851 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2853 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2855 Customizable formatting of search results
2857 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2858 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2859 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2861 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2863 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2865 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2870 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2872 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2873 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2874 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2875 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2881 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2883 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2884 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2886 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2888 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2889 accept are now all accepted.
2894 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2896 Better display of output from failed tests
2898 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2899 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2901 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2902 ========================
2904 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2905 detailed release notes this time!
2907 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2908 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2910 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2911 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2912 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2913 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2920 Better guessing of From: header
2922 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2923 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2924 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2925 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2926 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2929 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2931 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2932 guaranteed to match all messages.
2934 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2936 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2937 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2938 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2939 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2940 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2943 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2946 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2947 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2948 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2949 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2954 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2956 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2957 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2958 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2959 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2961 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2963 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2965 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2966 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2967 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2969 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2971 Previously, the user might see:
2973 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2977 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2979 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2980 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2981 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2982 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2984 Emacs client features
2985 ---------------------
2987 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2989 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2990 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2991 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2992 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2993 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2995 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2998 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2999 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3000 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3001 search with the '*' binding.
3003 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3005 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3006 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3009 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3011 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3012 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3013 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3015 Build-system features
3016 ---------------------
3018 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3020 Add support to configure for many standard options
3022 We include actual support for:
3024 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3026 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3028 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3029 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3031 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3032 separate "make install-emacs"
3034 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3036 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3037 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3038 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3040 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3043 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3044 ========================
3046 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3048 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3049 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3051 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3052 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3053 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3054 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3055 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3056 tags from messages in a thread.
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