1 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
19 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
20 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
21 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
23 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
25 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
26 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
27 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
28 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
29 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
30 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
35 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
36 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
39 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
42 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
44 Command Line Interface
45 ----------------------
47 Database revision tracking
49 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
50 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
51 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
52 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
54 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
56 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
57 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
58 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
59 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
60 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
61 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
62 manual page for further information.
67 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
69 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
70 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
72 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
74 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
75 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
76 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
78 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
80 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
82 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
83 customization as well.
85 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
87 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
89 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
91 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
93 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
94 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
95 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
96 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
98 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
100 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
101 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
102 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
103 this variable to 10000.
108 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
109 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
111 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
113 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
114 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
115 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
116 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
117 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
118 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
119 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
120 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
121 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
124 Database revision tracking
126 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
127 query parser and the new function
128 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
130 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
134 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
135 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
136 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
137 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
142 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
144 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
145 ===========================
150 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
152 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
153 ===========================
158 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
160 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
161 =========================
163 Command-Line Interface
164 ----------------------
166 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
168 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
169 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
170 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
172 Path to gpg is now configurable
174 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
175 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
180 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
182 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
187 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
192 Support messages without Message-IDs.
197 Undeprecate single message mboxes
199 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
200 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
202 New error logging facility
204 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
205 output formerly printed to stderr.
207 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
209 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
211 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
213 Fix for rounding of seconds
218 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
220 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
221 docmumentation has been removed.
223 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
225 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
226 some material from the relicensed wiki.
231 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
232 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
233 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
238 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
239 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
240 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
241 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
242 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
243 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
246 git checkout config origin/config
248 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
250 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
251 =========================
256 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
257 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
258 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
259 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
260 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
261 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
262 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
264 Command-Line Interface
265 ----------------------
267 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
269 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
270 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
271 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
272 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
273 script callers should still check the return value.
275 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
277 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
278 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
279 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
280 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
281 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
282 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
283 and returning success even if indexing fails).
285 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
287 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
288 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
289 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
291 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
293 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
294 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
295 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
296 currently unmaintained.
298 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
300 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
301 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
302 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
303 have at least `N` files associated with them.
305 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
307 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
308 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
309 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
310 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
311 count of duplicate addresses.
316 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
318 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
319 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
320 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
323 Improved handling of the unread tag
325 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
326 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
327 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
328 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
329 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
330 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
331 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
333 Expanded default saved search settings
335 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
336 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
338 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
340 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
341 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
342 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
344 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
346 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
347 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
348 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
349 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
350 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
351 the variable for details.
356 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
358 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
359 Representing these independently of the database version number will
360 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
361 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
363 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
365 Previously, library users were required to call
366 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
367 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
368 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
369 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
370 too out of date for that API.
372 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
374 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
375 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
376 atomic section will be aborted.
378 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
379 `notmuch_database_destroy`
381 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
383 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
384 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
385 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
386 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
387 messages into the same thread.
392 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
393 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
394 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
395 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
396 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
397 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
402 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
403 from the config file. Use something like:
407 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
408 "footer": "</body></html>",
417 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
422 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
423 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
424 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
426 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
427 ===========================
432 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
434 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
436 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
438 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
439 structure for signatures changed slightly.
441 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
443 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
446 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
447 ===========================
449 This is a bug fix and portability release.
454 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
456 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
458 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
460 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
462 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
468 Use --quick when starting emacs
470 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
472 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
474 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
476 Command-Line Interface
477 ----------------------
479 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
480 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
485 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
487 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
488 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
490 Fix for phrase indexing
492 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
493 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
494 will affect only newly indexed messages.
499 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
501 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
502 unintentionally removed.
504 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
505 =========================
510 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
511 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
512 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
513 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
514 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
515 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
516 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
517 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
518 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
524 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
526 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
527 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
528 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
529 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
530 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
531 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
532 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
533 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
535 There is a new `path:` search prefix
537 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
538 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
539 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
540 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
543 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
545 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
546 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
547 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
548 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
549 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
550 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
551 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
556 Notmuch database upgrade
558 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
559 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
560 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
561 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
562 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
563 released version of Notmuch before now.
565 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
567 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
568 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
569 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
570 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
572 Message header parsing changes
574 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
575 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
576 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
577 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
578 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
579 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
581 Command-Line Interface
582 ----------------------
584 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
586 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
588 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
590 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
592 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
594 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
595 user does not want it.
597 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
599 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
600 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
601 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
602 support formatted output.
604 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
606 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
607 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
608 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
616 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
617 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
618 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
619 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
620 `~/.emacs` with these.
622 Changed format for saved searches
624 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
625 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
626 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
627 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
630 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
631 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
632 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
633 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
635 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
636 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
637 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
639 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
640 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
641 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
642 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
643 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
645 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
647 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
648 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
649 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
651 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
653 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
654 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
655 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
656 message had been unread).
658 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
659 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
660 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
661 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
663 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
664 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
665 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
667 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
668 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
669 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
670 to tags already present.
674 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
675 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
676 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
677 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
678 these differ from each other.
679 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
681 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
683 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
684 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
685 for these Emacs versions.
687 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
689 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
690 newlines before calling notmuch count.
692 Bug fixes for sender identities
694 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
695 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
696 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
698 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
700 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
701 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
702 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
703 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
705 Reply pushes mark before signature
707 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
708 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
709 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
711 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
713 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
714 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
720 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
721 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
723 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
724 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
725 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
726 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
728 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
729 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
730 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
731 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
732 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
734 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
736 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
737 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
739 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
740 =========================
742 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
743 ---------------------------------------
745 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
746 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
747 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
748 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
749 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
750 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
751 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
755 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
756 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
758 Command-Line Interface
759 ----------------------
761 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
763 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
764 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
765 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
766 print for each message.
768 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
769 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
770 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
771 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
773 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
775 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
776 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
777 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
779 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
781 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
782 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
783 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
784 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
786 `notmuch compact` command
788 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
789 functionality through a more convenient interface than
790 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
791 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
792 move the compacted database into place.
797 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
799 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
800 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
801 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
802 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
803 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
804 and multiple threads.
808 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
810 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
811 search, show and tree mode itself)
813 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
816 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
817 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
819 Customising `notmuch-tree`
821 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
822 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
823 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
824 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
825 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
826 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
827 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
829 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
831 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
832 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
833 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
834 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
835 thread when the search was performed.
837 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
839 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
840 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
841 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
843 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
845 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
846 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
849 Built-in help improvements
851 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
852 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
853 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
855 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
857 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
858 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
859 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
861 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
863 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
864 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
866 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
868 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
869 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
870 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
871 to move some of them to the common keymap.
873 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
875 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
876 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
877 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
878 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
880 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
882 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
883 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
884 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
886 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
888 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
889 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
890 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
892 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
894 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
895 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
896 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
897 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
898 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
900 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
902 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
903 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
904 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
905 the body part of the message.
910 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
911 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
912 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
914 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
915 =========================
917 Command-Line Interface
918 ----------------------
920 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
922 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
923 folder and notmuch index.
925 `notmuch count --batch` option
927 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
928 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
930 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
932 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
933 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
934 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
937 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
939 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
940 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
941 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
942 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
943 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
946 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
948 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
949 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
951 Top level option to specify configuration file
953 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
954 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
956 Bash command-line completion
958 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
959 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
960 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
961 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
962 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
963 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
964 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
965 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
966 bash-completion package.
968 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
973 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
975 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
976 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
977 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
978 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
979 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
980 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
981 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
982 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
984 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
986 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
987 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
988 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
990 Key bindings for next/previous thread
992 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
993 previous thread in the search results.
995 Better handling of errors in search buffers
997 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
998 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1000 Faster search and show
1002 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1003 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1004 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1005 threads should show faster.
1009 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1010 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1011 in question was now removed from this release.
1016 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1017 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1022 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1024 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1025 ===========================
1030 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1032 Internal test framework changes
1033 -------------------------------
1035 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1036 being unimplemented.
1038 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1039 ===========================
1041 Internal test framework changes
1042 -------------------------------
1044 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1045 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1047 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1048 =========================
1053 Date range search support
1055 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1056 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1057 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1058 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1059 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1062 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1064 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1065 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1066 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1067 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1068 but may be removed in a future release.
1070 Command-Line Interface
1071 ----------------------
1073 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1075 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1076 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1078 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1080 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1081 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1082 officially deprecated.
1084 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1086 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1087 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1088 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1090 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1092 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1093 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1096 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1097 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1098 dump/restore format.
1100 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1102 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1103 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1104 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1106 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1108 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1109 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1110 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1112 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1114 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1115 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1116 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1117 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1122 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1124 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1125 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1126 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1127 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1129 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1131 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1132 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1133 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1134 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1135 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1136 the behavior of this, see
1137 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1138 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1140 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1141 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1142 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1144 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1146 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1147 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1150 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1152 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1153 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1154 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1155 simply displayed in place of the message.
1157 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1159 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1160 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1162 Improved text/calendar content handling
1164 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1165 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1166 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1167 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1169 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1171 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1172 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1173 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1174 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1176 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1178 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1179 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1180 for HTML email containing images.
1182 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1184 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1186 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1188 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1191 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1193 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1194 the point where it was.
1196 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1198 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1199 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1200 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1201 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1202 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1204 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1206 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1207 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1208 thread instead of the message id.
1210 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1211 -----------------------------
1213 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1214 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1215 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1216 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1217 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1218 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1219 further details and installation.
1224 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1226 Internal test framework changes
1227 -------------------------------
1229 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1231 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1232 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1233 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1234 can result in buggy behavior.
1236 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1237 =========================
1242 Maildir tag synchronization
1244 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1245 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1246 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1247 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1248 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1249 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1252 Command-Line Interface
1253 ----------------------
1255 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1256 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1257 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1258 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1259 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1265 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1267 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1269 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1270 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1271 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1273 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1275 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1276 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1277 span multiple lines.
1279 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1281 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1282 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1283 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1284 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1285 inside the result or message.
1287 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1289 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1290 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1292 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1293 user-specified formatting
1295 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1296 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1297 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1298 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1299 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1301 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1302 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1304 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1305 ===========================
1310 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1311 compilation error for this contrib package.
1313 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1314 ===========================
1319 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1321 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1322 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1323 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1324 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1326 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1327 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1330 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1331 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1332 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1333 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1336 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1338 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1341 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1342 =========================
1344 Command-Line Interface
1345 ----------------------
1349 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1350 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1351 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1352 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1354 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1355 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1356 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1357 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1361 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1362 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1364 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1365 tag in your query, for example:
1367 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1369 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1370 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1372 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1373 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1375 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1377 Raw show format changes
1379 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1380 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1381 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1382 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1383 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1384 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1385 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1386 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1388 Listing configuration items
1390 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1396 Changes to tagging interface
1398 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1399 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1400 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1401 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1402 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1403 for more information.
1405 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1406 may need to update in custom configurations.
1408 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1410 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1411 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1412 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1413 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1416 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1417 -----------------------------
1419 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1420 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1421 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1422 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1423 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1424 contrib/ from now on.
1429 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1430 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1432 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1433 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1435 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1436 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1437 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1439 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1440 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1442 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1443 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1444 returning the new database object or directory object.
1451 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1452 compatible with go 1.
1454 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1455 =========================
1457 Command-Line Interface
1458 ----------------------
1462 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1463 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1464 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1465 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1467 Mail store folder/file ignore
1469 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1470 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1471 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1473 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1474 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1476 Unified help and manual pages
1478 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1479 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1482 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1484 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1485 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1493 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1494 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1495 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1496 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1498 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1500 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1501 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1503 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1506 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1507 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1508 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1510 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1512 should be changed to:
1514 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1516 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1518 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1519 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1521 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1523 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1524 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1525 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1526 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1527 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1528 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1532 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1533 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1534 of Mailing List Archives.
1536 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1538 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1539 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1542 Show view archiving key binding changes
1544 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1545 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1546 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1547 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1548 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1551 Support text/calendar MIME type
1553 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1556 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1558 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1559 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1560 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1561 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1563 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1565 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1566 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1567 messages blue by default in the search view.
1571 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1572 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1579 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1582 Python bindings changes
1583 -----------------------
1585 Python 3.2 compatibility
1587 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1589 Added missing unicode conversions
1591 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1592 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1593 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1598 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1600 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1601 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1602 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1603 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1604 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1606 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1607 ===========================
1612 Fix error handling in python bindings
1614 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1615 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1616 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1617 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1619 Quote MML tags in replies
1621 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1622 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1623 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1624 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1625 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1626 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1627 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1628 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1630 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1631 =========================
1633 Command-Line Interface
1634 ----------------------
1638 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1639 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1640 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1641 importing new messages into the database.
1643 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1645 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1646 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1647 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1652 Automatic tag query optimization
1654 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1655 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1656 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1658 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1660 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1661 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1662 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1667 Reduction of memory leaks
1669 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1670 and fixed in this release.
1677 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1678 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1679 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1682 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1684 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1685 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1686 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1689 Improvements in saved search management
1691 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1692 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1693 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1695 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1697 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1698 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1699 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1701 New face for crypto parts headers
1703 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1704 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1705 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1708 Use space as default thousands separator
1710 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1711 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1712 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1714 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1715 buttonized id: links
1717 New function notmuch-show-advance
1719 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1720 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1721 be bound to SPC with:
1723 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1725 Various performance improvements
1730 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1731 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1734 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1735 ===========================
1740 Fix crash in python bindings
1742 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1743 for some, but not all users.
1745 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1746 ===========================
1751 Fix `--help` argument
1753 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1754 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1755 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1757 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1758 =========================
1760 New build and testing features
1761 ------------------------------
1763 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1764 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1765 prerequisites is improved.
1767 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1769 New command-line features
1770 -------------------------
1772 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1774 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1775 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1778 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1780 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1781 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1782 favour of using stdout.
1784 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1786 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1787 limit the number of results shown.
1789 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1791 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1792 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1795 New emacs UI features
1796 ---------------------
1798 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1800 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1801 starting with "tag:".
1803 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1805 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1806 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1808 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1810 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1812 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1814 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1815 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1820 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1822 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1824 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1825 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1826 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1827 requires a database rebuild:
1829 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1830 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1832 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1834 New collection of add-on tools
1835 ------------------------------
1837 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1838 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1839 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1842 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1844 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1845 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1846 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1848 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1849 ========================
1851 New, general features
1852 ---------------------
1854 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1856 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1857 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1858 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1859 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1860 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1867 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1868 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1870 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1874 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1875 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1876 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1879 Python bindings changes
1880 -----------------------
1882 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1884 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1885 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1886 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1887 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1888 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1889 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1891 Ruby bindings changes
1892 ---------------------
1894 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1895 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1896 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1897 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1902 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1904 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1905 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1907 Reply formatting cleanup
1908 ------------------------
1910 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1911 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1913 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1914 ========================
1916 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1918 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1919 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1920 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1921 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1924 Improved Build system portability
1926 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1927 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1928 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1930 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1932 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1934 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1936 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1937 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1938 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1940 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1941 ========================
1943 Vim interface improvements
1944 --------------------------
1946 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1948 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1949 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1950 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1951 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1952 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1954 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1956 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1957 * fix compose temp file name
1959 Python Bindings changes
1960 -----------------------
1962 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1964 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1965 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1967 Build-System improvements
1968 -------------------------
1970 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1972 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1975 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1976 ==========================
1981 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1983 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1984 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1986 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1987 =======================
1989 New, general features
1990 ---------------------
1992 Folder-based searching
1994 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1995 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1996 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2000 For example, one might use things such as:
2006 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2007 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2009 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2010 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2011 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2012 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2014 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2015 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2016 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2019 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2020 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2022 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2024 Support for PGP/MIME
2026 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2027 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2028 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2030 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2032 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2033 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2035 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2036 notmuch will receive these tags.
2038 New command-line features
2039 -------------------------
2041 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2043 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2044 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2046 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2048 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2049 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2050 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2052 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2054 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2055 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2056 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2057 which parts a signature part applies).
2059 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2061 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2062 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2063 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2064 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2065 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2068 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2070 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2071 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2072 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2073 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2074 by translating it internally to the new call.
2076 Performance improvements
2077 ------------------------
2079 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2081 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2082 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2083 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2085 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2086 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2088 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2090 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2091 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2092 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2094 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2095 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2096 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2097 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2099 Faster initial indexing
2101 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2102 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2103 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2105 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2107 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2108 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2109 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2110 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2112 New emacs-interface features
2113 ----------------------------
2115 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2117 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2118 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2119 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2120 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2121 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2122 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2124 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2126 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2127 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2128 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2129 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2131 User-selectable From address
2133 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2134 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2135 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2136 will prompt for the from address to use.
2138 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2139 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2140 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2142 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2143 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2144 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2147 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2149 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2150 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2152 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2154 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2156 ----- Original Message -----
2158 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2159 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2160 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2161 citations work much like conventional citations.
2163 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2165 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2166 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2167 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2168 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2169 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2171 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2172 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2174 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2176 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2177 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2178 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2180 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2182 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2183 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2184 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2185 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2186 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2188 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2190 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2193 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2195 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2197 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2199 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2202 Vim interface improvements
2203 --------------------------
2205 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2207 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2208 * Implementing archive in show view
2209 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2210 * Add delete commands
2213 Bindings improvements
2214 ---------------------
2216 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2218 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2219 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2221 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2223 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2227 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2228 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2229 `list(Messages)` works now
2230 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2232 These allow, for example:
2234 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2236 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2238 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2244 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2246 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2249 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2251 New build-system features
2252 -------------------------
2254 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2256 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2257 the configure script from some other directory:
2264 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2266 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2267 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2268 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2269 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2270 manual invocation of configure.
2272 New test-suite feature
2273 ----------------------
2275 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2277 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2278 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2279 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2280 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2281 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2284 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2286 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2287 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2288 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2289 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2290 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2291 are updated to take advantage of this.
2293 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2295 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2296 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2297 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2298 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2304 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2306 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2307 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2308 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2310 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2312 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2314 to:user@elsewhere.com
2316 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2318 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2320 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2322 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2323 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2324 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2327 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2328 from the Received headers in some cases
2330 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2331 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2333 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2335 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2337 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2339 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2340 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2341 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2343 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2344 -------------------------
2346 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2348 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2349 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2350 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2352 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2354 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2355 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2356 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2359 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2361 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2362 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2363 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2364 fixed to avoid this bug.
2366 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2368 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2369 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2371 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2372 ========================
2374 New, general features
2375 ---------------------
2377 Maildir-flag synchronization
2379 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2380 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2389 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2391 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2392 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2393 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2394 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2396 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2397 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2398 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2399 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2402 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2404 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2405 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2406 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2408 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2409 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2411 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2412 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2414 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2415 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2416 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2418 New library features
2419 --------------------
2421 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2423 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2424 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2425 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2426 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2428 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2429 message with the new function:
2431 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2433 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2434 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2435 over all available filenames for a given message.
2437 New command-line features
2438 -------------------------
2440 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2442 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2443 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2444 access to the mail store itself.
2446 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2447 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2448 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2449 name of a script containing:
2451 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2453 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2454 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2460 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2462 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2464 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2466 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2467 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2468 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2469 now produces nothing).
2471 Emacs interface improvements
2472 ----------------------------
2474 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2476 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2478 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2480 Display current thread subject in a header line
2482 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2484 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2486 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2487 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2488 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2489 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2490 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2491 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2492 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2494 Vim interface improvements
2495 --------------------------
2497 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2499 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2500 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2506 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2508 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2509 ========================
2511 New command-line features
2512 -------------------------
2514 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2516 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2517 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2518 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2520 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2521 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2522 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2523 scripts. For example:
2525 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2526 <operations-on> "$file"
2529 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2531 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2532 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2533 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2534 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2535 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2536 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2538 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2540 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2541 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2542 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2543 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2545 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2547 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2548 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2549 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2550 default rather than Bcc.
2552 New library features
2553 --------------------
2555 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2557 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2558 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2563 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2565 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2566 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2567 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2568 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2569 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2570 notmuch customize interface.
2572 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2574 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2575 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2576 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2577 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2579 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2581 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2582 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2583 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2584 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2586 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2588 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2589 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2590 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2591 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2592 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2593 notmuch customize interface.
2595 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2597 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2598 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2599 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2600 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2601 notmuch customize interface.
2603 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2605 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2606 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2607 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2608 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2611 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2613 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2614 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2615 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2618 New build-system features
2619 -------------------------
2621 Various portability fixes have been applied
2623 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2624 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2625 more portable than ever before.
2627 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2629 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2630 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2631 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2633 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2634 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2635 automatically run ldconfig.
2637 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2638 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2639 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2641 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2642 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2643 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2644 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2646 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2648 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2649 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2650 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2651 used in the resulting Makefile.
2653 New test-suite features
2654 -----------------------
2656 New modularization of test suite
2658 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2659 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2660 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2661 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2662 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2663 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2664 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2665 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2667 New testing of emacs interface
2669 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2670 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2671 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2672 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2673 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2674 database via the FCC setting.
2679 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2681 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2682 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2683 persistent error of the form:
2685 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2687 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2688 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2690 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2692 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2693 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2694 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2696 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2698 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2699 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2700 parsing the notmuch results).
2702 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2704 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2707 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2708 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2709 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2714 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2716 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2717 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2718 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2719 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2720 the emacs interface.
2722 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2724 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2725 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2726 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2728 Python-binding fixes
2729 --------------------
2731 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2733 Debian-specific fixes
2734 ---------------------
2736 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2738 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2739 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2740 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2743 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2744 ==========================
2749 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2751 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2752 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2753 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2754 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2756 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2758 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2759 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2760 want notmuch to crash.
2765 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2767 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2768 directory does not exist
2773 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2775 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2776 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2778 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2779 ========================
2781 New command-line features
2782 -------------------------
2784 User-configurable tags for new messages
2786 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2787 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2788 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2789 to specify this value.
2791 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2793 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2794 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2795 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2797 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2799 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2800 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2802 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2804 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2805 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2806 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2807 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2808 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2811 Indication of author names that match a search
2813 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2814 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2815 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2816 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2817 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2818 messages in the thread are listed first.
2820 New: Python bindings
2821 --------------------
2823 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2824 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2825 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2826 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2828 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2829 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2830 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2833 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2834 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2835 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2837 Emacs interface improvements
2838 ----------------------------
2840 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2842 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2843 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2844 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2845 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2846 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2847 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2848 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2849 but without any of the disadvantages).
2851 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2852 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2853 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2856 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2857 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2858 instead running something like:
2860 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2862 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2863 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2864 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2867 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2869 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2870 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2871 tweaked by the user.
2873 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2874 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2875 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2878 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2879 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2880 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2883 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2885 This support currently relies on an external program,
2886 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2887 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2888 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2889 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2890 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2893 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2894 notmuch) is available via:
2896 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2898 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2899 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2900 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2902 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2904 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2905 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2906 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2907 making this automatic in a future release.
2909 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2911 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2912 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2913 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2914 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2915 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2916 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2919 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2921 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2922 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2923 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2925 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2927 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2928 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2929 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2931 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2932 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2933 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2934 other representation.
2936 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2937 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2940 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2942 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2943 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2944 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2946 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2947 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2948 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2950 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2952 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2953 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2954 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2955 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2956 to display the search result.
2958 More flexible handling of header visibility
2960 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2961 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2962 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2963 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2964 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2965 with the 'h' keybinding.
2967 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2968 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2969 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2971 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2973 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2975 Customizable formatting of search results
2977 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2978 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2979 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2981 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2983 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2985 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2990 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2992 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2993 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2994 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2995 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3001 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3003 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3004 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3006 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3008 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3009 accept are now all accepted.
3014 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3016 Better display of output from failed tests
3018 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3019 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3021 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3022 ========================
3024 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3025 detailed release notes this time!
3027 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3028 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3030 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3031 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3032 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3033 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3040 Better guessing of From: header
3042 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3043 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3044 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3045 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3046 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3049 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3051 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3052 guaranteed to match all messages.
3054 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3056 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3057 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3058 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3059 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3060 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3063 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3066 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3067 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3068 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3069 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3074 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3076 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3077 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3078 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3079 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3081 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3083 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3085 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3086 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3087 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3089 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3091 Previously, the user might see:
3093 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3097 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3099 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3100 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3101 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3102 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3104 Emacs client features
3105 ---------------------
3107 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3109 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3110 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3111 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3112 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3113 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3115 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3118 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3119 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3120 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3121 search with the '*' binding.
3123 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3125 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3126 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3129 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3131 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3132 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3133 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3135 Build-system features
3136 ---------------------
3138 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3140 Add support to configure for many standard options
3142 We include actual support for:
3144 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3146 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3148 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3149 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3151 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3152 separate "make install-emacs"
3154 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3156 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3157 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3158 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3160 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3163 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3164 ========================
3166 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3168 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3169 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3171 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3172 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3173 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3174 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3175 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3176 tags from messages in a thread.
3183 indent-tabs-mode: nil