1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
17 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
19 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
20 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
21 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
22 on a per-message basis with the --decrypt argument to indexing
23 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
24 config set index.decrypt true".
26 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
27 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
28 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
29 this feature without considering the security of your index.
31 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
32 ===========================
34 Command Line Interface
35 ----------------------
37 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
38 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
43 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
46 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
47 ===========================
52 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
55 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
56 =========================
61 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
63 Skip HTML tags when indexing
65 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
67 Command Line Interface
68 ----------------------
70 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
72 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
77 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
79 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
80 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
83 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
88 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
90 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
91 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
93 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
95 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
96 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
99 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
101 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
103 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
105 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
106 ===========================
108 Command Line Interface
109 ----------------------
111 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
116 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
118 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
119 ===========================
124 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
126 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
127 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
130 Command Line Interface
131 ----------------------
133 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
135 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
137 Fix bug in dump header
139 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
140 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
141 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
146 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
148 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
149 =========================
154 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
156 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
159 Command Line Interface
160 ----------------------
162 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
164 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
165 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
166 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
168 New default output format to 3
170 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
171 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
172 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
173 default format changes.
178 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
180 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
181 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
182 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
183 or tree view to resume.
185 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
186 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
187 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
190 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
191 they were when you postponed in the final message.
195 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
196 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
197 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
198 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
199 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
203 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
204 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
205 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
206 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
207 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
208 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
212 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
213 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
215 Stop display of `application/*` parts
217 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
218 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
219 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
220 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
221 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
222 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
223 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
224 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
227 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
229 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
230 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
231 only tagged the current thread.)
233 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
235 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
236 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
237 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
239 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
241 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
242 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
243 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
244 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
245 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
246 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
247 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
249 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
251 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
252 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
253 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
258 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
260 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
263 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
265 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
268 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
269 ===========================
274 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
276 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
277 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
278 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
281 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
282 ===========================
284 Command Line Interface
285 ----------------------
287 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
292 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
294 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
295 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
296 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
298 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
299 ===========================
304 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
305 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
307 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
308 ===========================
310 Command Line Interface
311 ----------------------
313 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
315 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
316 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
317 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
322 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
324 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
325 ===========================
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
335 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
337 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
338 ===========================
343 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
345 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
346 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
347 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
349 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
351 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
353 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
354 ===========================
359 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
361 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
366 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
368 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
369 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
370 the original colours.
372 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
373 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
375 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
377 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
378 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
379 bug, and hence the test.
381 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
382 =========================
384 General (Xapian 1.4+)
385 ---------------------
387 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
389 Support for single argument date: queries
391 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
393 Support for blocking opens
395 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
396 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
398 Support for named queries
400 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
401 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
402 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
409 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
410 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
411 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
412 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
414 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
416 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
421 Support for compile time options
423 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
424 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
427 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
429 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
430 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
431 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
432 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
433 scripts to ignore it.
438 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
440 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
441 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
442 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
444 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
445 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
446 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
447 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
448 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
449 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
450 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
452 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
453 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
456 Make internal address completion customizable
458 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
459 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
460 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
461 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
464 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
466 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
467 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
468 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
469 completion for the current buffer.
471 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
472 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
473 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
477 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
478 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
479 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
480 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
481 will be added instead.
483 Face customization is easier
485 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
486 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
487 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
488 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
490 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
495 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
500 Go bindings moved to contrib
502 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
504 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
506 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
507 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
509 The same issue occured with sort modes.
511 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
512 ===========================
519 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
520 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
522 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
524 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
526 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
527 ===========================
532 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
534 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
539 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
544 Use `env` to locate perl.
549 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
551 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
553 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
555 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
557 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
558 =========================
565 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
566 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
568 Limited support for S/MIME messages
570 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
571 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
572 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
577 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
578 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
579 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
581 Command Line Interface
582 ----------------------
584 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
586 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
591 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
596 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
598 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
599 parts are now included in replies.
601 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
602 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
603 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
604 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
606 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
608 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
610 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
612 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
613 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
614 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
615 forwards only the current message.
617 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
619 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
620 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
621 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
622 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
623 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
624 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
625 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
626 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
629 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
630 longer generate empty buffers
632 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
633 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
634 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
635 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
636 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
638 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
640 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
643 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
645 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
648 Address completion improvements
650 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
651 you previously configured one, customize the variable
652 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
653 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
654 interactive address completion.
656 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
658 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
659 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
660 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
665 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
666 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
667 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
673 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
674 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
675 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
676 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
677 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
678 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
680 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
681 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
682 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
683 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
684 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
685 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
687 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
688 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
690 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
691 =========================
696 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
699 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
701 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
702 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
703 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
705 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
706 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
708 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
709 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
710 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
712 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
714 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
715 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
716 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
717 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
718 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
719 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
724 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
725 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
728 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
731 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
733 Command Line Interface
734 ----------------------
736 Database revision tracking
738 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
739 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
740 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
741 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
743 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
745 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
746 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
747 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
748 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
749 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
750 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
751 manual page for further information.
756 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
758 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
759 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
761 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
763 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
764 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
765 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
767 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
769 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
771 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
772 customization as well.
774 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
776 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
778 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
780 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
782 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
783 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
784 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
785 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
787 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
789 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
790 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
791 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
792 this variable to 10000.
797 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
798 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
800 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
802 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
803 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
804 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
805 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
806 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
807 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
808 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
809 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
810 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
813 Database revision tracking
815 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
816 query parser and the new function
817 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
819 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
823 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
824 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
825 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
826 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
831 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
833 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
834 ===========================
839 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
841 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
842 ===========================
847 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
849 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
850 =========================
852 Command-Line Interface
853 ----------------------
855 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
857 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
858 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
859 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
861 Path to gpg is now configurable
863 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
864 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
869 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
871 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
876 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
881 Support messages without Message-IDs.
886 Undeprecate single message mboxes
888 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
889 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
891 New error logging facility
893 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
894 output formerly printed to stderr.
896 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
898 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
900 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
902 Fix for rounding of seconds
907 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
909 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
910 docmumentation has been removed.
912 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
914 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
915 some material from the relicensed wiki.
920 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
921 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
922 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
927 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
928 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
929 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
930 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
931 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
932 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
935 git checkout config origin/config
937 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
939 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
940 =========================
945 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
946 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
947 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
948 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
949 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
950 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
951 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
953 Command-Line Interface
954 ----------------------
956 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
958 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
959 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
960 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
961 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
962 script callers should still check the return value.
964 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
966 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
967 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
968 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
969 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
970 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
971 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
972 and returning success even if indexing fails).
974 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
976 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
977 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
978 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
980 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
982 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
983 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
984 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
985 currently unmaintained.
987 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
989 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
990 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
991 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
992 have at least `N` files associated with them.
994 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
996 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
997 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
998 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
999 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1000 count of duplicate addresses.
1005 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1007 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1008 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1009 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1012 Improved handling of the unread tag
1014 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1015 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1016 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1017 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1018 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1019 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1020 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1022 Expanded default saved search settings
1024 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1025 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1027 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1029 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1030 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1031 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1033 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1035 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1036 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1037 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1038 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1039 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1040 the variable for details.
1045 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1047 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1048 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1049 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1050 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1052 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1054 Previously, library users were required to call
1055 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1056 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1057 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1058 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1059 too out of date for that API.
1061 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1063 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1064 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1065 atomic section will be aborted.
1067 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1068 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1070 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1072 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1073 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1074 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1075 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1076 messages into the same thread.
1081 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1082 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1083 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1084 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1085 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1086 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1091 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1092 from the config file. Use something like:
1096 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1097 "footer": "</body></html>",
1106 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1111 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1112 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1113 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1115 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1116 ===========================
1121 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1123 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1125 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1127 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1128 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1130 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1132 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1135 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1136 ===========================
1138 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1143 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1145 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1147 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1149 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1151 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1157 Use --quick when starting emacs
1159 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1161 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1163 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1165 Command-Line Interface
1166 ----------------------
1168 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1169 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1174 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1176 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1177 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1179 Fix for phrase indexing
1181 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1182 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1183 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1188 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1190 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1191 unintentionally removed.
1193 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1194 =========================
1199 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1200 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1201 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1202 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1203 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1204 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1205 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1206 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1207 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1213 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1215 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1216 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1217 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1218 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1219 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1220 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1221 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1222 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1224 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1226 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1227 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1228 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1229 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1232 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1234 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1235 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1236 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1237 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1238 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1239 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1240 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1245 Notmuch database upgrade
1247 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1248 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1249 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1250 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1251 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1252 released version of Notmuch before now.
1254 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1256 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1257 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1258 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1259 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1261 Message header parsing changes
1263 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1264 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1265 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1266 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1267 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1268 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1270 Command-Line Interface
1271 ----------------------
1273 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1275 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1277 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1279 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1281 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1283 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1284 user does not want it.
1286 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1288 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1289 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1290 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1291 support formatted output.
1293 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1295 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1296 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1297 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1305 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1306 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1307 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1308 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1309 `~/.emacs` with these.
1311 Changed format for saved searches
1313 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1314 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1315 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1316 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1319 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1320 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1321 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1322 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1324 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1325 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1326 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1328 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1329 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1330 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1331 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1332 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1334 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1336 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1337 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1338 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1340 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1342 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1343 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1344 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1345 message had been unread).
1347 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1348 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1349 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1350 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1352 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1353 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1354 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1356 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1357 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1358 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1359 to tags already present.
1363 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1364 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1365 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1366 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1367 these differ from each other.
1368 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1370 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1372 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1373 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1374 for these Emacs versions.
1376 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1378 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1379 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1381 Bug fixes for sender identities
1383 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1384 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1385 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1387 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1389 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1390 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1391 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1392 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1394 Reply pushes mark before signature
1396 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1397 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1398 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1400 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1402 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1403 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1409 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1410 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1412 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1413 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1414 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1415 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1417 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1418 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1419 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1420 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1421 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1423 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1425 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1426 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1428 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1429 =========================
1431 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1432 ---------------------------------------
1434 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1435 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1436 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1437 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1438 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1439 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1440 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1444 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1445 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1447 Command-Line Interface
1448 ----------------------
1450 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1452 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1453 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1454 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1455 print for each message.
1457 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1458 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1459 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1460 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1462 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1464 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1465 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1466 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1468 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1470 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1471 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1472 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1473 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1475 `notmuch compact` command
1477 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1478 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1479 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1480 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1481 move the compacted database into place.
1486 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1488 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1489 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1490 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1491 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1492 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1493 and multiple threads.
1495 Using `notmuch-tree`
1497 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1499 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1500 search, show and tree mode itself)
1502 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1505 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1506 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1508 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1510 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1511 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1512 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1513 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1514 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1515 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1516 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1518 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1520 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1521 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1522 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1523 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1524 thread when the search was performed.
1526 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1528 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1529 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1530 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1532 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1534 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1535 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1538 Built-in help improvements
1540 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1541 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1542 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1544 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1546 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1547 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1548 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1550 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1552 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1553 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1555 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1557 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1558 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1559 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1560 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1562 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1564 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1565 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1566 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1567 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1569 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1571 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1572 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1573 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1575 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1577 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1578 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1579 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1581 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1583 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1584 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1585 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1586 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1587 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1589 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1591 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1592 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1593 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1594 the body part of the message.
1599 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1600 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1601 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1603 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1604 =========================
1606 Command-Line Interface
1607 ----------------------
1609 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1611 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1612 folder and notmuch index.
1614 `notmuch count --batch` option
1616 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1617 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1619 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1621 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1622 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1623 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1626 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1628 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1629 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1630 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1631 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1632 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1635 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1637 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1638 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1640 Top level option to specify configuration file
1642 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1643 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1645 Bash command-line completion
1647 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1648 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1649 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1650 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1651 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1652 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1653 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1654 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1655 bash-completion package.
1657 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1662 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1664 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1665 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1666 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1667 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1668 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1669 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1670 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1671 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1673 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1675 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1676 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1677 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1679 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1681 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1682 previous thread in the search results.
1684 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1686 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1687 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1689 Faster search and show
1691 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1692 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1693 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1694 threads should show faster.
1698 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1699 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1700 in question was now removed from this release.
1705 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1706 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1711 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1713 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1714 ===========================
1719 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1721 Internal test framework changes
1722 -------------------------------
1724 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1725 being unimplemented.
1727 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1728 ===========================
1730 Internal test framework changes
1731 -------------------------------
1733 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1734 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1736 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1737 =========================
1742 Date range search support
1744 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1745 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1746 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1747 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1748 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1751 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1753 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1754 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1755 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1756 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1757 but may be removed in a future release.
1759 Command-Line Interface
1760 ----------------------
1762 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1764 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1765 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1767 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1769 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1770 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1771 officially deprecated.
1773 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1775 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1776 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1777 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1779 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1781 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1782 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1785 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1786 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1787 dump/restore format.
1789 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1791 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1792 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1793 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1795 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1797 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1798 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1799 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1801 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1803 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1804 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1805 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1806 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1811 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1813 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1814 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1815 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1816 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1818 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1820 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1821 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1822 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1823 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1824 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1825 the behavior of this, see
1826 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1827 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1829 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1830 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1831 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1833 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1835 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1836 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1839 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1841 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1842 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1843 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1844 simply displayed in place of the message.
1846 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1848 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1849 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1851 Improved text/calendar content handling
1853 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1854 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1855 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1856 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1858 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1860 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1861 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1862 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1863 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1865 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1867 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1868 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1869 for HTML email containing images.
1871 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1873 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1875 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1877 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1880 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1882 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1883 the point where it was.
1885 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1887 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1888 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1889 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1890 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1891 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1893 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1895 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1896 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1897 thread instead of the message id.
1899 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1900 -----------------------------
1902 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1903 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1904 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1905 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1906 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1907 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1908 further details and installation.
1913 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1915 Internal test framework changes
1916 -------------------------------
1918 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1920 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1921 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1922 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1923 can result in buggy behavior.
1925 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1926 =========================
1931 Maildir tag synchronization
1933 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1934 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1935 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1936 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1937 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1938 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1941 Command-Line Interface
1942 ----------------------
1944 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1945 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1946 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1947 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1948 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1954 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1956 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1958 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1959 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1960 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1962 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1964 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1965 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1966 span multiple lines.
1968 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1970 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1971 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1972 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1973 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1974 inside the result or message.
1976 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1978 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1979 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1981 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1982 user-specified formatting
1984 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1985 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1986 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1987 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1988 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1990 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1991 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1993 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1994 ===========================
1999 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2000 compilation error for this contrib package.
2002 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2003 ===========================
2008 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2010 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2011 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2012 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2013 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2015 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2016 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2019 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2020 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2021 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2022 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2025 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2027 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2030 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2031 =========================
2033 Command-Line Interface
2034 ----------------------
2038 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2039 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2040 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2041 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2043 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2044 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2045 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2046 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2050 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2051 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2053 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2054 tag in your query, for example:
2056 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2058 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2059 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2061 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2062 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2064 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2066 Raw show format changes
2068 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2069 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2070 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2071 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2072 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2073 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2074 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2075 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2077 Listing configuration items
2079 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2085 Changes to tagging interface
2087 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2088 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2089 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2090 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2091 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2092 for more information.
2094 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2095 may need to update in custom configurations.
2097 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2099 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2100 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2101 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2102 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2105 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2106 -----------------------------
2108 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2109 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2110 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2111 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2112 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2113 contrib/ from now on.
2118 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2119 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2121 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2122 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2124 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2125 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2126 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2128 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2129 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2131 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2132 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2133 returning the new database object or directory object.
2140 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2141 compatible with go 1.
2143 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2144 =========================
2146 Command-Line Interface
2147 ----------------------
2151 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2152 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2153 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2154 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2156 Mail store folder/file ignore
2158 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2159 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2160 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2162 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2163 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2165 Unified help and manual pages
2167 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2168 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2171 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2173 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2174 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2182 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2183 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2184 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2185 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2187 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2189 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2190 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2192 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2195 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2196 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2197 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2199 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2201 should be changed to:
2203 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2205 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2207 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2208 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2210 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2212 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2213 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2214 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2215 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2216 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2217 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2221 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2222 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2223 of Mailing List Archives.
2225 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2227 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2228 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2231 Show view archiving key binding changes
2233 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2234 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2235 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2236 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2237 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2240 Support text/calendar MIME type
2242 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2245 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2247 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2248 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2249 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2250 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2252 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2254 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2255 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2256 messages blue by default in the search view.
2260 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2261 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2268 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2271 Python bindings changes
2272 -----------------------
2274 Python 3.2 compatibility
2276 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2278 Added missing unicode conversions
2280 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2281 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2282 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2287 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2289 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2290 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2291 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2292 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2293 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2295 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2296 ===========================
2301 Fix error handling in python bindings
2303 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2304 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2305 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2306 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2308 Quote MML tags in replies
2310 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2311 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2312 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2313 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2314 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2315 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2316 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2317 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2319 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2320 =========================
2322 Command-Line Interface
2323 ----------------------
2327 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2328 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2329 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2330 importing new messages into the database.
2332 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2334 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2335 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2336 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2341 Automatic tag query optimization
2343 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2344 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2345 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2347 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2349 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2350 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2351 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2356 Reduction of memory leaks
2358 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2359 and fixed in this release.
2366 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2367 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2368 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2371 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2373 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2374 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2375 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2378 Improvements in saved search management
2380 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2381 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2382 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2384 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2386 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2387 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2388 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2390 New face for crypto parts headers
2392 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2393 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2394 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2397 Use space as default thousands separator
2399 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2400 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2401 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2403 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2404 buttonized id: links
2406 New function notmuch-show-advance
2408 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2409 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2410 be bound to SPC with:
2412 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2414 Various performance improvements
2419 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2420 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2423 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2424 ===========================
2429 Fix crash in python bindings
2431 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2432 for some, but not all users.
2434 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2435 ===========================
2440 Fix `--help` argument
2442 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2443 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2444 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2446 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2447 =========================
2449 New build and testing features
2450 ------------------------------
2452 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2453 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2454 prerequisites is improved.
2456 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2458 New command-line features
2459 -------------------------
2461 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2463 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2464 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2467 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2469 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2470 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2471 favour of using stdout.
2473 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2475 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2476 limit the number of results shown.
2478 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2480 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2481 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2484 New emacs UI features
2485 ---------------------
2487 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2489 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2490 starting with "tag:".
2492 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2494 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2495 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2497 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2499 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2501 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2503 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2504 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2509 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2511 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2513 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2514 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2515 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2516 requires a database rebuild:
2518 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2519 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2521 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2523 New collection of add-on tools
2524 ------------------------------
2526 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2527 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2528 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2531 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2533 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2534 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2535 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2537 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2538 ========================
2540 New, general features
2541 ---------------------
2543 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2545 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2546 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2547 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2548 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2549 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2556 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2557 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2559 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2563 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2564 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2565 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2568 Python bindings changes
2569 -----------------------
2571 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2573 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2574 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2575 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2576 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2577 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2578 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2580 Ruby bindings changes
2581 ---------------------
2583 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2584 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2585 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2586 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2591 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2593 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2594 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2596 Reply formatting cleanup
2597 ------------------------
2599 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2600 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2602 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2603 ========================
2605 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2607 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2608 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2609 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2610 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2613 Improved Build system portability
2615 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2616 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2617 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2619 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2621 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2623 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2625 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2626 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2627 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2629 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2630 ========================
2632 Vim interface improvements
2633 --------------------------
2635 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2637 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2638 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2639 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2640 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2641 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2643 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2645 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2646 * fix compose temp file name
2648 Python Bindings changes
2649 -----------------------
2651 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2653 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2654 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2656 Build-System improvements
2657 -------------------------
2659 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2661 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2664 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2665 ==========================
2670 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2672 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2673 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2675 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2676 =======================
2678 New, general features
2679 ---------------------
2681 Folder-based searching
2683 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2684 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2685 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2689 For example, one might use things such as:
2695 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2696 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2698 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2699 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2700 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2701 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2703 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2704 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2705 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2708 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2709 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2711 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2713 Support for PGP/MIME
2715 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2716 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2717 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2719 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2721 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2722 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2724 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2725 notmuch will receive these tags.
2727 New command-line features
2728 -------------------------
2730 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2732 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2733 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2735 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2737 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2738 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2739 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2741 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2743 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2744 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2745 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2746 which parts a signature part applies).
2748 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2750 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2751 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2752 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2753 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2754 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2757 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2759 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2760 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2761 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2762 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2763 by translating it internally to the new call.
2765 Performance improvements
2766 ------------------------
2768 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2770 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2771 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2772 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2774 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2775 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2777 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2779 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2780 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2781 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2783 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2784 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2785 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2786 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2788 Faster initial indexing
2790 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2791 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2792 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2794 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2796 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2797 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2798 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2799 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2801 New emacs-interface features
2802 ----------------------------
2804 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2806 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2807 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2808 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2809 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2810 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2811 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2813 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2815 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2816 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2817 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2818 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2820 User-selectable From address
2822 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2823 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2824 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2825 will prompt for the from address to use.
2827 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2828 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2829 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2831 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2832 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2833 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2836 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2838 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2839 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2841 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2843 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2845 ----- Original Message -----
2847 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2848 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2849 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2850 citations work much like conventional citations.
2852 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2854 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2855 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2856 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2857 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2858 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2860 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2861 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2863 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2865 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2866 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2867 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2869 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2871 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2872 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2873 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2874 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2875 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2877 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2879 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2882 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2884 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2886 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2888 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2891 Vim interface improvements
2892 --------------------------
2894 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2896 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2897 * Implementing archive in show view
2898 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2899 * Add delete commands
2902 Bindings improvements
2903 ---------------------
2905 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2907 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2908 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2910 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2912 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2916 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2917 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2918 `list(Messages)` works now
2919 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2921 These allow, for example:
2923 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2925 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2927 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2933 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2935 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2938 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2940 New build-system features
2941 -------------------------
2943 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2945 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2946 the configure script from some other directory:
2953 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2955 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2956 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2957 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2958 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2959 manual invocation of configure.
2961 New test-suite feature
2962 ----------------------
2964 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2966 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2967 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2968 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2969 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2970 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2973 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2975 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2976 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2977 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2978 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2979 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2980 are updated to take advantage of this.
2982 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2984 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2985 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2986 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2987 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2993 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2995 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2996 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2997 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2999 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3001 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3003 to:user@elsewhere.com
3005 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3007 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3009 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3011 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3012 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3013 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3016 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3017 from the Received headers in some cases
3019 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3020 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3022 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3024 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3026 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3028 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3029 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3030 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3032 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3033 -------------------------
3035 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3037 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3038 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3039 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3041 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3043 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3044 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3045 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3048 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3050 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3051 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3052 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3053 fixed to avoid this bug.
3055 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3057 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3058 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3060 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3061 ========================
3063 New, general features
3064 ---------------------
3066 Maildir-flag synchronization
3068 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3069 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3078 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3080 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3081 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3082 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3083 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3085 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3086 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3087 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3088 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3091 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3093 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3094 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3095 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3097 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3098 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3100 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3101 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3103 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3104 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3105 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3107 New library features
3108 --------------------
3110 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3112 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3113 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3114 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3115 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3117 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3118 message with the new function:
3120 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3122 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3123 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3124 over all available filenames for a given message.
3126 New command-line features
3127 -------------------------
3129 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3131 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3132 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3133 access to the mail store itself.
3135 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3136 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3137 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3138 name of a script containing:
3140 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3142 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3143 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3149 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3151 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3153 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3155 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3156 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3157 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3158 now produces nothing).
3160 Emacs interface improvements
3161 ----------------------------
3163 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3165 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3167 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3169 Display current thread subject in a header line
3171 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3173 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3175 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3176 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3177 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3178 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3179 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3180 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3181 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3183 Vim interface improvements
3184 --------------------------
3186 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3188 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3189 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3195 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3197 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3198 ========================
3200 New command-line features
3201 -------------------------
3203 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3205 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3206 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3207 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3209 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3210 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3211 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3212 scripts. For example:
3214 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3215 <operations-on> "$file"
3218 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3220 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3221 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3222 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3223 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3224 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3225 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3227 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3229 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3230 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3231 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3232 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3234 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3236 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3237 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3238 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3239 default rather than Bcc.
3241 New library features
3242 --------------------
3244 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3246 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3247 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3252 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3254 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3255 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3256 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3257 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3258 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3259 notmuch customize interface.
3261 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3263 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3264 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3265 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3266 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3268 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3270 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3271 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3272 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3273 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3275 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3277 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3278 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3279 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3280 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3281 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3282 notmuch customize interface.
3284 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3286 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3287 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3288 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3289 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3290 notmuch customize interface.
3292 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3294 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3295 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3296 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3297 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3300 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3302 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3303 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3304 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3307 New build-system features
3308 -------------------------
3310 Various portability fixes have been applied
3312 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3313 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3314 more portable than ever before.
3316 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3318 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3319 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3320 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3322 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3323 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3324 automatically run ldconfig.
3326 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3327 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3328 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3330 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3331 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3332 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3333 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3335 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3337 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3338 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3339 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3340 used in the resulting Makefile.
3342 New test-suite features
3343 -----------------------
3345 New modularization of test suite
3347 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3348 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3349 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3350 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3351 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3352 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3353 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3354 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3356 New testing of emacs interface
3358 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3359 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3360 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3361 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3362 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3363 database via the FCC setting.
3368 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3370 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3371 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3372 persistent error of the form:
3374 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3376 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3377 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3379 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3381 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3382 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3383 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3385 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3387 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3388 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3389 parsing the notmuch results).
3391 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3393 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3396 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3397 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3398 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3403 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3405 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3406 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3407 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3408 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3409 the emacs interface.
3411 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3413 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3414 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3415 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3417 Python-binding fixes
3418 --------------------
3420 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3422 Debian-specific fixes
3423 ---------------------
3425 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3427 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3428 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3429 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3432 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3433 ==========================
3438 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3440 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3441 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3442 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3443 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3445 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3447 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3448 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3449 want notmuch to crash.
3454 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3456 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3457 directory does not exist
3462 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3464 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3465 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3467 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3468 ========================
3470 New command-line features
3471 -------------------------
3473 User-configurable tags for new messages
3475 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3476 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3477 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3478 to specify this value.
3480 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3482 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3483 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3484 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3486 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3488 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3489 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3491 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3493 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3494 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3495 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3496 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3497 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3500 Indication of author names that match a search
3502 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3503 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3504 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3505 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3506 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3507 messages in the thread are listed first.
3509 New: Python bindings
3510 --------------------
3512 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3513 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3514 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3515 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3517 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3518 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3519 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3522 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3523 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3524 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3526 Emacs interface improvements
3527 ----------------------------
3529 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3531 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3532 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3533 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3534 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3535 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3536 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3537 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3538 but without any of the disadvantages).
3540 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3541 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3542 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3545 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3546 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3547 instead running something like:
3549 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3551 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3552 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3553 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3556 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3558 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3559 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3560 tweaked by the user.
3562 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3563 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3564 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3567 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3568 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3569 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3572 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3574 This support currently relies on an external program,
3575 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3576 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3577 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3578 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3579 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3582 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3583 notmuch) is available via:
3585 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3587 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3588 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3589 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3591 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3593 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3594 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3595 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3596 making this automatic in a future release.
3598 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3600 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3601 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3602 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3603 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3604 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3605 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3608 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3610 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3611 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3612 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3614 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3616 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3617 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3618 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3620 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3621 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3622 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3623 other representation.
3625 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3626 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3629 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3631 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3632 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3633 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3635 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3636 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3637 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3639 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3641 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3642 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3643 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3644 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3645 to display the search result.
3647 More flexible handling of header visibility
3649 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3650 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3651 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3652 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3653 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3654 with the 'h' keybinding.
3656 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3657 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3658 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3660 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3662 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3664 Customizable formatting of search results
3666 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3667 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3668 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3670 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3672 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3674 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3679 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3681 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3682 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3683 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3684 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3690 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3692 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3693 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3695 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3697 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3698 accept are now all accepted.
3703 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3705 Better display of output from failed tests
3707 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3708 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3710 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3711 ========================
3713 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3714 detailed release notes this time!
3716 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3717 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3719 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3720 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3721 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3722 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3729 Better guessing of From: header
3731 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3732 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3733 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3734 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3735 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3738 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3740 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3741 guaranteed to match all messages.
3743 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3745 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3746 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3747 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3748 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3749 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3752 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3755 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3756 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3757 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3758 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3763 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3765 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3766 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3767 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3768 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3770 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3772 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3774 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3775 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3776 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3778 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3780 Previously, the user might see:
3782 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3786 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3788 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3789 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3790 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3791 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3793 Emacs client features
3794 ---------------------
3796 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3798 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3799 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3800 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3801 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3802 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3804 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3807 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3808 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3809 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3810 search with the '*' binding.
3812 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3814 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3815 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3818 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3820 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3821 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3822 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3824 Build-system features
3825 ---------------------
3827 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3829 Add support to configure for many standard options
3831 We include actual support for:
3833 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3835 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3837 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3838 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3840 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3841 separate "make install-emacs"
3843 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3845 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3846 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3847 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3849 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3852 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3853 ========================
3855 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3857 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3858 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3860 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3861 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3862 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3863 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3864 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3865 tags from messages in a thread.
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