1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
9 Support for single argument date: queries
11 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
13 Support for blocking opens
15 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
16 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
18 Support for named queries
20 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
21 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
22 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
27 Support for compile time options
29 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
30 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
33 Dump/Restore support for configuration information
35 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
36 named queries) is dumped and restored. Any new information in the
37 dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing scripts to ignore
43 Face customization is easier
45 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
46 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
47 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
48 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
53 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
58 Go bindings moved to contrib
60 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
62 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore.
64 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
65 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
67 The same issue occured with sort modes.
69 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
70 ===========================
77 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
78 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
80 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
82 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
84 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
85 ===========================
90 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
92 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
97 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
102 Use `env` to locate perl.
107 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
109 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
111 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
113 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
115 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
116 =========================
123 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
124 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
126 Limited support for S/MIME messages
128 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
129 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
130 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
135 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
136 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
137 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
139 Command Line Interface
140 ----------------------
142 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
144 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
149 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
154 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
156 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
157 parts are now included in replies.
159 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
160 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
161 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
162 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
164 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
166 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
168 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
170 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
171 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
172 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
173 forwards only the current message.
175 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
177 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
178 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
179 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
180 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
181 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
182 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
183 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
184 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
187 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
188 longer generate empty buffers
190 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
191 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
192 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
193 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
194 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
196 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
198 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
201 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
203 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
206 Address completion improvements
208 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
209 you previously configured one, customize the variable
210 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
211 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
212 interactive address completion.
214 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
216 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
217 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
218 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
223 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
224 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
225 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
231 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
232 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
233 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
234 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
235 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
236 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
238 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
239 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
240 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
241 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
242 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
243 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
245 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
246 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
248 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
249 =========================
254 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
257 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
259 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
260 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
261 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
263 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
264 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
266 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
267 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
268 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
270 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
272 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
273 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
274 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
275 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
276 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
277 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
282 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
283 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
286 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
289 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
291 Command Line Interface
292 ----------------------
294 Database revision tracking
296 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
297 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
298 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
299 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
301 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
303 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
304 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
305 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
306 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
307 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
308 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
309 manual page for further information.
314 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
316 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
317 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
319 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
321 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
322 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
323 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
325 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
327 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
329 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
330 customization as well.
332 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
334 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
336 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
338 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
340 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
341 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
342 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
343 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
345 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
347 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
348 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
349 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
350 this variable to 10000.
355 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
356 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
358 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
360 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
361 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
362 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
363 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
364 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
365 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
366 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
367 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
368 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
371 Database revision tracking
373 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
374 query parser and the new function
375 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
377 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
381 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
382 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
383 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
384 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
389 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
391 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
392 ===========================
397 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
399 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
400 ===========================
405 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
407 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
408 =========================
410 Command-Line Interface
411 ----------------------
413 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
415 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
416 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
417 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
419 Path to gpg is now configurable
421 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
422 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
427 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
429 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
434 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
439 Support messages without Message-IDs.
444 Undeprecate single message mboxes
446 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
447 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
449 New error logging facility
451 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
452 output formerly printed to stderr.
454 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
456 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
458 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
460 Fix for rounding of seconds
465 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
467 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
468 docmumentation has been removed.
470 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
472 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
473 some material from the relicensed wiki.
478 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
479 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
480 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
485 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
486 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
487 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
488 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
489 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
490 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
493 git checkout config origin/config
495 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
497 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
498 =========================
503 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
504 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
505 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
506 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
507 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
508 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
509 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
511 Command-Line Interface
512 ----------------------
514 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
516 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
517 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
518 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
519 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
520 script callers should still check the return value.
522 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
524 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
525 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
526 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
527 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
528 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
529 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
530 and returning success even if indexing fails).
532 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
534 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
535 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
536 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
538 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
540 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
541 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
542 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
543 currently unmaintained.
545 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
547 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
548 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
549 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
550 have at least `N` files associated with them.
552 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
554 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
555 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
556 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
557 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
558 count of duplicate addresses.
563 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
565 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
566 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
567 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
570 Improved handling of the unread tag
572 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
573 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
574 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
575 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
576 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
577 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
578 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
580 Expanded default saved search settings
582 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
583 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
585 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
587 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
588 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
589 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
591 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
593 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
594 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
595 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
596 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
597 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
598 the variable for details.
603 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
605 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
606 Representing these independently of the database version number will
607 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
608 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
610 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
612 Previously, library users were required to call
613 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
614 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
615 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
616 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
617 too out of date for that API.
619 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
621 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
622 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
623 atomic section will be aborted.
625 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
626 `notmuch_database_destroy`
628 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
630 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
631 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
632 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
633 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
634 messages into the same thread.
639 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
640 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
641 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
642 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
643 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
644 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
649 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
650 from the config file. Use something like:
654 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
655 "footer": "</body></html>",
664 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
669 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
670 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
671 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
673 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
674 ===========================
679 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
681 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
683 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
685 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
686 structure for signatures changed slightly.
688 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
690 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
693 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
694 ===========================
696 This is a bug fix and portability release.
701 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
703 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
705 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
707 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
709 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
715 Use --quick when starting emacs
717 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
719 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
721 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
723 Command-Line Interface
724 ----------------------
726 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
727 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
732 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
734 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
735 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
737 Fix for phrase indexing
739 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
740 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
741 will affect only newly indexed messages.
746 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
748 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
749 unintentionally removed.
751 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
752 =========================
757 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
758 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
759 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
760 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
761 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
762 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
763 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
764 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
765 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
771 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
773 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
774 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
775 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
776 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
777 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
778 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
779 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
780 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
782 There is a new `path:` search prefix
784 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
785 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
786 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
787 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
790 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
792 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
793 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
794 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
795 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
796 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
797 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
798 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
803 Notmuch database upgrade
805 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
806 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
807 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
808 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
809 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
810 released version of Notmuch before now.
812 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
814 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
815 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
816 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
817 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
819 Message header parsing changes
821 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
822 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
823 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
824 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
825 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
826 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
828 Command-Line Interface
829 ----------------------
831 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
833 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
835 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
837 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
839 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
841 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
842 user does not want it.
844 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
846 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
847 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
848 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
849 support formatted output.
851 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
853 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
854 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
855 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
863 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
864 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
865 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
866 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
867 `~/.emacs` with these.
869 Changed format for saved searches
871 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
872 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
873 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
874 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
877 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
878 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
879 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
880 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
882 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
883 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
884 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
886 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
887 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
888 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
889 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
890 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
892 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
894 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
895 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
896 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
898 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
900 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
901 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
902 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
903 message had been unread).
905 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
906 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
907 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
908 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
910 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
911 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
912 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
914 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
915 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
916 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
917 to tags already present.
921 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
922 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
923 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
924 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
925 these differ from each other.
926 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
928 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
930 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
931 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
932 for these Emacs versions.
934 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
936 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
937 newlines before calling notmuch count.
939 Bug fixes for sender identities
941 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
942 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
943 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
945 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
947 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
948 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
949 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
950 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
952 Reply pushes mark before signature
954 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
955 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
956 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
958 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
960 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
961 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
967 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
968 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
970 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
971 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
972 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
973 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
975 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
976 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
977 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
978 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
979 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
981 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
983 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
984 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
986 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
987 =========================
989 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
990 ---------------------------------------
992 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
993 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
994 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
995 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
996 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
997 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
998 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1002 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1003 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1005 Command-Line Interface
1006 ----------------------
1008 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1010 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1011 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1012 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1013 print for each message.
1015 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1016 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1017 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1018 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1020 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1022 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1023 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1024 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1026 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1028 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1029 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1030 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1031 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1033 `notmuch compact` command
1035 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1036 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1037 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1038 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1039 move the compacted database into place.
1044 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1046 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1047 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1048 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1049 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1050 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1051 and multiple threads.
1053 Using `notmuch-tree`
1055 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1057 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1058 search, show and tree mode itself)
1060 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1063 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1064 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1066 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1068 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1069 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1070 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1071 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1072 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1073 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1074 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1076 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1078 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1079 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1080 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1081 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1082 thread when the search was performed.
1084 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1086 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1087 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1088 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1090 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1092 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1093 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1096 Built-in help improvements
1098 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1099 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1100 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1102 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1104 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1105 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1106 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1108 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1110 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1111 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1113 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1115 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1116 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1117 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1118 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1120 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1122 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1123 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1124 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1125 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1127 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1129 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1130 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1131 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1133 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1135 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1136 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1137 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1139 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1141 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1142 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1143 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1144 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1145 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1147 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1149 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1150 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1151 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1152 the body part of the message.
1157 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1158 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1159 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1161 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1162 =========================
1164 Command-Line Interface
1165 ----------------------
1167 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1169 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1170 folder and notmuch index.
1172 `notmuch count --batch` option
1174 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1175 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1177 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1179 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1180 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1181 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1184 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1186 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1187 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1188 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1189 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1190 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1193 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1195 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1196 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1198 Top level option to specify configuration file
1200 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1201 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1203 Bash command-line completion
1205 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1206 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1207 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1208 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1209 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1210 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1211 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1212 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1213 bash-completion package.
1215 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1220 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1222 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1223 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1224 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1225 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1226 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1227 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1228 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1229 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1231 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1233 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1234 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1235 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1237 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1239 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1240 previous thread in the search results.
1242 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1244 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1245 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1247 Faster search and show
1249 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1250 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1251 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1252 threads should show faster.
1256 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1257 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1258 in question was now removed from this release.
1263 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1264 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1269 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1271 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1272 ===========================
1277 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1279 Internal test framework changes
1280 -------------------------------
1282 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1283 being unimplemented.
1285 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1286 ===========================
1288 Internal test framework changes
1289 -------------------------------
1291 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1292 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1294 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1295 =========================
1300 Date range search support
1302 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1303 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1304 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1305 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1306 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1309 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1311 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1312 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1313 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1314 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1315 but may be removed in a future release.
1317 Command-Line Interface
1318 ----------------------
1320 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1322 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1323 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1325 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1327 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1328 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1329 officially deprecated.
1331 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1333 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1334 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1335 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1337 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1339 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1340 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1343 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1344 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1345 dump/restore format.
1347 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1349 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1350 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1351 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1353 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1355 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1356 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1357 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1359 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1361 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1362 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1363 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1364 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1369 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1371 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1372 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1373 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1374 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1376 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1378 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1379 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1380 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1381 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1382 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1383 the behavior of this, see
1384 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1385 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1387 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1388 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1389 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1391 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1393 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1394 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1397 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1399 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1400 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1401 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1402 simply displayed in place of the message.
1404 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1406 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1407 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1409 Improved text/calendar content handling
1411 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1412 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1413 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1414 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1416 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1418 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1419 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1420 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1421 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1423 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1425 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1426 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1427 for HTML email containing images.
1429 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1431 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1433 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1435 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1438 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1440 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1441 the point where it was.
1443 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1445 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1446 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1447 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1448 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1449 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1451 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1453 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1454 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1455 thread instead of the message id.
1457 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1458 -----------------------------
1460 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1461 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1462 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1463 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1464 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1465 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1466 further details and installation.
1471 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1473 Internal test framework changes
1474 -------------------------------
1476 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1478 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1479 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1480 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1481 can result in buggy behavior.
1483 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1484 =========================
1489 Maildir tag synchronization
1491 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1492 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1493 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1494 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1495 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1496 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1499 Command-Line Interface
1500 ----------------------
1502 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1503 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1504 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1505 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1506 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1512 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1514 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1516 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1517 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1518 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1520 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1522 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1523 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1524 span multiple lines.
1526 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1528 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1529 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1530 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1531 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1532 inside the result or message.
1534 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1536 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1537 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1539 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1540 user-specified formatting
1542 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1543 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1544 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1545 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1546 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1548 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1549 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1551 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1552 ===========================
1557 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1558 compilation error for this contrib package.
1560 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1561 ===========================
1566 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1568 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1569 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1570 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1571 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1573 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1574 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1577 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1578 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1579 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1580 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1583 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1585 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1588 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1589 =========================
1591 Command-Line Interface
1592 ----------------------
1596 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1597 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1598 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1599 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1601 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1602 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1603 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1604 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1608 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1609 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1611 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1612 tag in your query, for example:
1614 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1616 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1617 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1619 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1620 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1622 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1624 Raw show format changes
1626 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1627 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1628 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1629 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1630 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1631 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1632 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1633 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1635 Listing configuration items
1637 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1643 Changes to tagging interface
1645 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1646 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1647 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1648 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1649 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1650 for more information.
1652 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1653 may need to update in custom configurations.
1655 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1657 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1658 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1659 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1660 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1663 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1664 -----------------------------
1666 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1667 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1668 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1669 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1670 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1671 contrib/ from now on.
1676 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1677 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1679 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1680 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1682 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1683 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1684 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1686 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1687 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1689 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1690 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1691 returning the new database object or directory object.
1698 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1699 compatible with go 1.
1701 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1702 =========================
1704 Command-Line Interface
1705 ----------------------
1709 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1710 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1711 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1712 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1714 Mail store folder/file ignore
1716 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1717 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1718 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1720 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1721 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1723 Unified help and manual pages
1725 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1726 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1729 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1731 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1732 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1740 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1741 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1742 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1743 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1745 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1747 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1748 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1750 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1753 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1754 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1755 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1757 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1759 should be changed to:
1761 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1763 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1765 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1766 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1768 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1770 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1771 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1772 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1773 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1774 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1775 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1779 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1780 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1781 of Mailing List Archives.
1783 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1785 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1786 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1789 Show view archiving key binding changes
1791 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1792 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1793 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1794 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1795 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1798 Support text/calendar MIME type
1800 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1803 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1805 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1806 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1807 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1808 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1810 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1812 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1813 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1814 messages blue by default in the search view.
1818 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1819 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1826 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1829 Python bindings changes
1830 -----------------------
1832 Python 3.2 compatibility
1834 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1836 Added missing unicode conversions
1838 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1839 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1840 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1845 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1847 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1848 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1849 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1850 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1851 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1853 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1854 ===========================
1859 Fix error handling in python bindings
1861 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1862 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1863 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1864 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1866 Quote MML tags in replies
1868 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1869 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1870 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1871 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1872 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1873 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1874 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1875 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1877 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1878 =========================
1880 Command-Line Interface
1881 ----------------------
1885 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1886 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1887 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1888 importing new messages into the database.
1890 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1892 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1893 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1894 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1899 Automatic tag query optimization
1901 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1902 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1903 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1905 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1907 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1908 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1909 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1914 Reduction of memory leaks
1916 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1917 and fixed in this release.
1924 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1925 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1926 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1929 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1931 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1932 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1933 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1936 Improvements in saved search management
1938 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1939 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1940 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1942 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1944 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1945 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1946 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1948 New face for crypto parts headers
1950 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1951 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1952 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1955 Use space as default thousands separator
1957 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1958 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1959 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1961 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1962 buttonized id: links
1964 New function notmuch-show-advance
1966 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1967 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1968 be bound to SPC with:
1970 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1972 Various performance improvements
1977 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1978 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1981 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1982 ===========================
1987 Fix crash in python bindings
1989 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1990 for some, but not all users.
1992 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1993 ===========================
1998 Fix `--help` argument
2000 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2001 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2002 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2004 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2005 =========================
2007 New build and testing features
2008 ------------------------------
2010 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2011 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2012 prerequisites is improved.
2014 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2016 New command-line features
2017 -------------------------
2019 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2021 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2022 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2025 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2027 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2028 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2029 favour of using stdout.
2031 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2033 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2034 limit the number of results shown.
2036 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2038 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2039 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2042 New emacs UI features
2043 ---------------------
2045 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2047 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2048 starting with "tag:".
2050 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2052 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2053 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2055 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2057 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2059 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2061 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2062 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2067 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2069 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2071 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2072 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2073 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2074 requires a database rebuild:
2076 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2077 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2079 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2081 New collection of add-on tools
2082 ------------------------------
2084 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2085 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2086 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2089 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2091 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2092 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2093 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2095 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2096 ========================
2098 New, general features
2099 ---------------------
2101 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2103 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2104 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2105 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2106 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2107 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2114 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2115 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2117 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2121 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2122 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2123 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2126 Python bindings changes
2127 -----------------------
2129 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2131 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2132 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2133 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2134 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2135 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2136 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2138 Ruby bindings changes
2139 ---------------------
2141 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2142 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2143 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2144 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2149 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2151 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2152 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2154 Reply formatting cleanup
2155 ------------------------
2157 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2158 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2160 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2161 ========================
2163 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2165 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2166 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2167 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2168 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2171 Improved Build system portability
2173 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2174 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2175 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2177 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2179 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2181 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2183 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2184 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2185 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2187 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2188 ========================
2190 Vim interface improvements
2191 --------------------------
2193 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2195 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2196 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2197 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2198 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2199 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2201 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2203 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2204 * fix compose temp file name
2206 Python Bindings changes
2207 -----------------------
2209 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2211 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2212 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2214 Build-System improvements
2215 -------------------------
2217 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2219 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2222 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2223 ==========================
2228 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2230 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2231 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2233 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2234 =======================
2236 New, general features
2237 ---------------------
2239 Folder-based searching
2241 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2242 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2243 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2247 For example, one might use things such as:
2253 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2254 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2256 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2257 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2258 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2259 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2261 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2262 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2263 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2266 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2267 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2269 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2271 Support for PGP/MIME
2273 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2274 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2275 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2277 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2279 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2280 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2282 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2283 notmuch will receive these tags.
2285 New command-line features
2286 -------------------------
2288 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2290 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2291 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2293 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2295 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2296 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2297 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2299 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2301 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2302 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2303 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2304 which parts a signature part applies).
2306 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2308 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2309 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2310 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2311 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2312 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2315 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2317 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2318 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2319 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2320 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2321 by translating it internally to the new call.
2323 Performance improvements
2324 ------------------------
2326 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2328 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2329 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2330 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2332 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2333 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2335 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2337 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2338 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2339 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2341 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2342 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2343 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2344 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2346 Faster initial indexing
2348 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2349 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2350 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2352 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2354 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2355 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2356 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2357 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2359 New emacs-interface features
2360 ----------------------------
2362 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2364 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2365 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2366 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2367 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2368 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2369 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2371 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2373 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2374 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2375 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2376 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2378 User-selectable From address
2380 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2381 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2382 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2383 will prompt for the from address to use.
2385 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2386 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2387 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2389 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2390 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2391 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2394 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2396 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2397 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2399 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2401 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2403 ----- Original Message -----
2405 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2406 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2407 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2408 citations work much like conventional citations.
2410 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2412 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2413 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2414 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2415 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2416 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2418 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2419 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2421 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2423 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2424 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2425 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2427 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2429 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2430 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2431 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2432 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2433 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2435 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2437 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2440 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2442 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2444 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2446 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2449 Vim interface improvements
2450 --------------------------
2452 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2454 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2455 * Implementing archive in show view
2456 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2457 * Add delete commands
2460 Bindings improvements
2461 ---------------------
2463 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2465 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2466 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2468 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2470 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2474 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2475 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2476 `list(Messages)` works now
2477 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2479 These allow, for example:
2481 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2483 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2485 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2491 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2493 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2496 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2498 New build-system features
2499 -------------------------
2501 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2503 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2504 the configure script from some other directory:
2511 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2513 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2514 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2515 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2516 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2517 manual invocation of configure.
2519 New test-suite feature
2520 ----------------------
2522 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2524 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2525 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2526 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2527 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2528 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2531 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2533 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2534 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2535 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2536 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2537 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2538 are updated to take advantage of this.
2540 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2542 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2543 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2544 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2545 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2551 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2553 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2554 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2555 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2557 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2559 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2561 to:user@elsewhere.com
2563 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2565 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2567 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2569 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2570 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2571 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2574 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2575 from the Received headers in some cases
2577 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2578 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2580 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2582 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2584 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2586 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2587 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2588 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2590 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2591 -------------------------
2593 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2595 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2596 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2597 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2599 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2601 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2602 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2603 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2606 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2608 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2609 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2610 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2611 fixed to avoid this bug.
2613 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2615 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2616 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2618 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2619 ========================
2621 New, general features
2622 ---------------------
2624 Maildir-flag synchronization
2626 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2627 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2636 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2638 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2639 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2640 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2641 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2643 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2644 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2645 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2646 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2649 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2651 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2652 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2653 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2655 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2656 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2658 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2659 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2661 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2662 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2663 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2665 New library features
2666 --------------------
2668 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2670 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2671 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2672 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2673 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2675 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2676 message with the new function:
2678 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2680 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2681 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2682 over all available filenames for a given message.
2684 New command-line features
2685 -------------------------
2687 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2689 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2690 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2691 access to the mail store itself.
2693 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2694 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2695 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2696 name of a script containing:
2698 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2700 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2701 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2707 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2709 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2711 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2713 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2714 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2715 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2716 now produces nothing).
2718 Emacs interface improvements
2719 ----------------------------
2721 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2723 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2725 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2727 Display current thread subject in a header line
2729 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2731 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2733 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2734 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2735 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2736 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2737 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2738 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2739 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2741 Vim interface improvements
2742 --------------------------
2744 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2746 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2747 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2753 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2755 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2756 ========================
2758 New command-line features
2759 -------------------------
2761 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2763 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2764 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2765 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2767 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2768 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2769 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2770 scripts. For example:
2772 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2773 <operations-on> "$file"
2776 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2778 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2779 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2780 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2781 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2782 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2783 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2785 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2787 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2788 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2789 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2790 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2792 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2794 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2795 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2796 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2797 default rather than Bcc.
2799 New library features
2800 --------------------
2802 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2804 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2805 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2810 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2812 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2813 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2814 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2815 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2816 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2817 notmuch customize interface.
2819 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2821 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2822 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2823 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2824 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2826 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2828 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2829 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2830 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2831 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2833 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2835 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2836 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2837 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2838 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2839 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2840 notmuch customize interface.
2842 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2844 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2845 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2846 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2847 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2848 notmuch customize interface.
2850 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2852 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2853 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2854 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2855 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2858 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2860 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2861 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2862 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2865 New build-system features
2866 -------------------------
2868 Various portability fixes have been applied
2870 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2871 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2872 more portable than ever before.
2874 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2876 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2877 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2878 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2880 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2881 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2882 automatically run ldconfig.
2884 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2885 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2886 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2888 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2889 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2890 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2891 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2893 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2895 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2896 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2897 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2898 used in the resulting Makefile.
2900 New test-suite features
2901 -----------------------
2903 New modularization of test suite
2905 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2906 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2907 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2908 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2909 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2910 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2911 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2912 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2914 New testing of emacs interface
2916 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2917 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2918 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2919 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2920 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2921 database via the FCC setting.
2926 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2928 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2929 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2930 persistent error of the form:
2932 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2934 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2935 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2937 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2939 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2940 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2941 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2943 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2945 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2946 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2947 parsing the notmuch results).
2949 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2951 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2954 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2955 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2956 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2961 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2963 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2964 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2965 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2966 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2967 the emacs interface.
2969 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2971 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2972 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2973 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2975 Python-binding fixes
2976 --------------------
2978 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2980 Debian-specific fixes
2981 ---------------------
2983 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2985 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2986 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2987 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2990 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2991 ==========================
2996 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2998 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2999 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3000 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3001 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3003 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3005 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3006 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3007 want notmuch to crash.
3012 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3014 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3015 directory does not exist
3020 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3022 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3023 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3025 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3026 ========================
3028 New command-line features
3029 -------------------------
3031 User-configurable tags for new messages
3033 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3034 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3035 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3036 to specify this value.
3038 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3040 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3041 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3042 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3044 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3046 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3047 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3049 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3051 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3052 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3053 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3054 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3055 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3058 Indication of author names that match a search
3060 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3061 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3062 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3063 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3064 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3065 messages in the thread are listed first.
3067 New: Python bindings
3068 --------------------
3070 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3071 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3072 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3073 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3075 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3076 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3077 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3080 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3081 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3082 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3084 Emacs interface improvements
3085 ----------------------------
3087 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3089 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3090 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3091 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3092 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3093 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3094 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3095 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3096 but without any of the disadvantages).
3098 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3099 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3100 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3103 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3104 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3105 instead running something like:
3107 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3109 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3110 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3111 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3114 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3116 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3117 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3118 tweaked by the user.
3120 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3121 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3122 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3125 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3126 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3127 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3130 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3132 This support currently relies on an external program,
3133 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3134 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3135 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3136 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3137 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3140 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3141 notmuch) is available via:
3143 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3145 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3146 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3147 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3149 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3151 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3152 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3153 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3154 making this automatic in a future release.
3156 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3158 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3159 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3160 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3161 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3162 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3163 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3166 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3168 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3169 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3170 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3172 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3174 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3175 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3176 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3178 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3179 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3180 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3181 other representation.
3183 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3184 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3187 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3189 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3190 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3191 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3193 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3194 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3195 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3197 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3199 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3200 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3201 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3202 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3203 to display the search result.
3205 More flexible handling of header visibility
3207 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3208 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3209 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3210 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3211 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3212 with the 'h' keybinding.
3214 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3215 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3216 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3218 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3220 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3222 Customizable formatting of search results
3224 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3225 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3226 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3228 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3230 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3232 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3237 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3239 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3240 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3241 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3242 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3248 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3250 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3251 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3253 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3255 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3256 accept are now all accepted.
3261 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3263 Better display of output from failed tests
3265 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3266 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3268 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3269 ========================
3271 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3272 detailed release notes this time!
3274 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3275 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3277 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3278 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3279 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3280 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3287 Better guessing of From: header
3289 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3290 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3291 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3292 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3293 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3296 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3298 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3299 guaranteed to match all messages.
3301 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3303 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3304 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3305 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3306 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3307 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3310 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3313 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3314 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3315 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3316 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3321 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3323 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3324 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3325 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3326 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3328 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3330 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3332 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3333 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3334 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3336 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3338 Previously, the user might see:
3340 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3344 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3346 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3347 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3348 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3349 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3351 Emacs client features
3352 ---------------------
3354 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3356 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3357 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3358 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3359 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3360 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3362 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3365 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3366 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3367 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3368 search with the '*' binding.
3370 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3372 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3373 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3376 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3378 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3379 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3380 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3382 Build-system features
3383 ---------------------
3385 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3387 Add support to configure for many standard options
3389 We include actual support for:
3391 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3393 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3395 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3396 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3398 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3399 separate "make install-emacs"
3401 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3403 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3404 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3405 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3407 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3410 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3411 ========================
3413 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3415 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3416 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3418 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3419 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3420 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3421 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3422 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3423 tags from messages in a thread.
3430 indent-tabs-mode: nil