1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
9 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
14 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
15 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
16 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
22 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
23 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
24 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
25 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
30 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
31 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
32 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
34 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
35 =========================
40 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
41 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
42 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
45 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
51 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
52 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
53 notmuch-properties(7)).
58 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
59 has protected headers (see
60 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
61 notmuch-properties(7)).
66 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
68 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
69 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
75 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
78 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
79 ===========================
84 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
86 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
91 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
93 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
94 ===========================
99 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
100 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
102 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
103 ===========================
108 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
110 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
111 =========================
116 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
117 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
120 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
121 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
122 the set of headers to be indexed.
124 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
127 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
128 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
129 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
132 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
133 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
134 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
136 Command Line Interface
137 ----------------------
139 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
142 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
144 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
145 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
146 more details about what is included there. This status includes
147 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
152 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
153 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
155 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
157 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
159 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
161 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
163 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
166 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
168 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
169 and may be removed in a future release.
171 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
177 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
179 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
180 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
185 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
186 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
187 cryptography support.
192 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
193 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
194 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
196 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
197 ===========================
199 Command line interface
200 ----------------------
202 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
203 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
205 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
206 ===========================
211 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
212 by message properties.
217 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
219 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
220 ===========================
225 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
230 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
231 now needed to build this documentation.
233 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
234 ===========================
239 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
240 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
242 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
243 =========================
250 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
251 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
252 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
253 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
254 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
257 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
259 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
260 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
261 correct encoding for such messages.
263 Command Line Interface
264 ----------------------
266 Support relative database paths
268 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
269 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
270 to $HOME of the invoking user.
275 Improve stderr handling
277 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
278 needed on e.g. macOS.
280 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
282 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
287 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
288 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
294 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
295 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
301 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
302 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
305 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
306 =========================
311 Add support for thread:{} queries
313 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
314 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
315 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
317 Command Line Interface
318 ----------------------
320 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
322 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
324 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
326 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
327 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
328 does not have to be available during message receipt.
333 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
339 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
340 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
342 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
343 ===========================
348 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
350 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
351 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
352 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
354 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
356 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
357 related abort in `notmuch show`.
359 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
360 ===========================
365 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
366 better late than never.
369 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
370 =========================
372 Command Line Interface
373 ----------------------
375 Support for re-indexing existing messages
377 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
378 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
379 change the way specific messages are indexed.
381 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
382 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
383 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
385 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
387 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
389 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
391 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
392 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
393 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
394 the setting of `new.tags`.
396 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
398 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
400 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
402 This inserts into the top level folder.
404 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
406 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
408 New option --output=address for notmuch address
410 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
412 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
414 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
415 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
416 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
418 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
423 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
425 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
426 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
427 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
428 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
429 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
430 config set index.decrypt true".
432 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
433 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
434 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
435 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
436 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
437 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
438 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
439 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
441 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
442 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
443 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
444 this feature without considering the security of your index.
449 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
451 Use make-process when available
453 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
454 notmuch command without using temporary files.
459 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
461 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
462 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
463 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
464 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
466 New functions to count files
468 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
469 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
471 New function to remove properties
473 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
474 drop all properties with a common pattern:
475 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
477 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
479 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
480 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
481 possibility of NULL was not documented.
483 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
485 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
486 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
487 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
488 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
489 operator may decide to change from message to message.
496 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
497 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
498 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
504 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
506 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
507 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
509 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
511 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
513 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
515 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
520 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
521 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
523 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
524 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
525 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
526 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
527 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
528 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
533 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
535 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
536 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
537 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
538 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
540 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
541 ===========================
546 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
547 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
550 Command Line Interface
551 ----------------------
553 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
554 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
557 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
558 ===========================
560 Command Line Interface
561 ----------------------
563 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
564 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
569 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
572 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
573 ===========================
578 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
581 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
582 =========================
587 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
589 Skip HTML tags when indexing
591 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
593 Command Line Interface
594 ----------------------
596 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
598 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
603 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
605 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
606 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
609 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
614 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
616 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
617 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
619 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
621 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
622 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
625 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
627 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
629 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
631 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
632 ===========================
634 Command Line Interface
635 ----------------------
637 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
642 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
644 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
645 ===========================
650 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
652 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
653 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
656 Command Line Interface
657 ----------------------
659 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
661 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
663 Fix bug in dump header
665 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
666 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
667 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
672 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
674 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
675 =========================
680 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
682 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
685 Command Line Interface
686 ----------------------
688 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
690 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
691 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
692 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
694 New default output format to 3
696 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
697 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
698 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
699 default format changes.
704 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
706 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
707 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
708 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
709 or tree view to resume.
711 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
712 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
713 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
716 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
717 they were when you postponed in the final message.
721 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
722 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
723 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
724 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
725 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
729 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
730 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
731 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
732 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
733 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
734 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
738 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
739 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
741 Stop display of `application/*` parts
743 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
744 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
745 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
746 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
747 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
748 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
749 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
750 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
753 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
755 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
756 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
757 only tagged the current thread.)
759 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
761 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
762 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
763 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
765 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
767 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
768 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
769 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
770 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
771 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
772 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
773 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
775 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
777 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
778 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
779 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
784 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
786 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
789 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
791 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
794 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
795 ===========================
800 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
802 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
803 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
804 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
807 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
808 ===========================
810 Command Line Interface
811 ----------------------
813 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
818 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
820 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
821 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
822 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
824 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
825 ===========================
830 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
831 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
833 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
834 ===========================
836 Command Line Interface
837 ----------------------
839 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
841 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
842 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
843 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
848 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
850 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
851 ===========================
853 Command Line Interface
854 ----------------------
856 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
861 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
863 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
864 ===========================
869 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
871 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
872 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
873 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
875 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
877 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
879 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
880 ===========================
885 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
887 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
892 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
894 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
895 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
896 the original colours.
898 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
899 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
901 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
903 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
904 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
905 bug, and hence the test.
907 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
908 =========================
910 General (Xapian 1.4+)
911 ---------------------
913 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
915 Support for single argument date: queries
917 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
919 Support for blocking opens
921 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
922 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
924 Support for named queries
926 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
927 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
928 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
935 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
936 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
937 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
938 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
940 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
942 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
947 Support for compile time options
949 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
950 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
953 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
955 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
956 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
957 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
958 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
959 scripts to ignore it.
964 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
966 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
967 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
968 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
970 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
971 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
972 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
973 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
974 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
975 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
976 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
978 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
979 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
982 Make internal address completion customizable
984 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
985 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
986 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
987 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
990 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
992 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
993 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
994 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
995 completion for the current buffer.
997 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
998 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
999 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1003 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1004 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1005 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1006 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1007 will be added instead.
1009 Face customization is easier
1011 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1012 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1013 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1014 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1016 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1021 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1026 Go bindings moved to contrib
1028 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1030 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1032 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1033 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1035 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1037 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1038 ===========================
1045 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1046 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1048 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1050 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1052 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1053 ===========================
1058 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1060 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1065 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1070 Use `env` to locate perl.
1075 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1077 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1079 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1081 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1083 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1084 =========================
1091 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1092 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1094 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1096 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1097 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1098 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1103 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1104 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1105 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1107 Command Line Interface
1108 ----------------------
1110 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1112 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1117 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1122 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1124 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1125 parts are now included in replies.
1127 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1128 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1129 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1130 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1132 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1134 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1136 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1138 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1139 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1140 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1141 forwards only the current message.
1143 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1145 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1146 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1147 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1148 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1149 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1150 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1151 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1152 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1155 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1156 longer generate empty buffers
1158 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1159 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1160 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1161 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1162 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1164 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1166 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1169 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1171 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1174 Address completion improvements
1176 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1177 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1178 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1179 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1180 interactive address completion.
1182 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1184 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1185 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1186 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1191 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1192 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1193 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1199 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1200 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1201 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1202 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1203 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1204 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1206 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1207 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1208 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1209 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1210 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1211 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1213 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1214 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1216 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1217 =========================
1222 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1225 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1227 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1228 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1229 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1231 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1232 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1234 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1235 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1236 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1238 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1240 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1241 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1242 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1243 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1244 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1245 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1250 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1251 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1254 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1255 option to configure.
1257 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1259 Command Line Interface
1260 ----------------------
1262 Database revision tracking
1264 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1265 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1266 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1267 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1269 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1271 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1272 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1273 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1274 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1275 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1276 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1277 manual page for further information.
1282 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1284 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1285 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1287 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1289 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1290 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1291 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1293 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1295 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1297 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1298 customization as well.
1300 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1302 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1304 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1306 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1308 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1309 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1310 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1311 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1313 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1315 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1316 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1317 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1318 this variable to 10000.
1323 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1324 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1326 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1328 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1329 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1330 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1331 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1332 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1333 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1334 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1335 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1336 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1339 Database revision tracking
1341 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1342 query parser and the new function
1343 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1345 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1347 Deprecated functions
1349 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1350 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1351 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1352 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1357 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1359 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1360 ===========================
1365 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1367 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1368 ===========================
1373 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1375 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1376 =========================
1378 Command-Line Interface
1379 ----------------------
1381 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1383 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1384 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1385 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1387 Path to gpg is now configurable
1389 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1390 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1395 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1397 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1402 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1407 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1412 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1414 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1415 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1417 New error logging facility
1419 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1420 output formerly printed to stderr.
1422 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1424 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1426 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1428 Fix for rounding of seconds
1433 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1435 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1436 documentation has been removed.
1438 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1440 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1441 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1446 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1447 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1448 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1453 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1454 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1455 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1456 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1457 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1458 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1461 git checkout config origin/config
1463 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1465 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1466 =========================
1471 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1472 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1473 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1474 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1475 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1476 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1477 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1479 Command-Line Interface
1480 ----------------------
1482 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1484 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1485 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1486 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1487 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1488 script callers should still check the return value.
1490 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1492 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1493 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1494 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1495 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1496 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1497 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1498 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1500 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1502 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1503 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1504 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1506 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1508 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1509 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1510 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1511 currently unmaintained.
1513 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1515 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1516 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1517 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1518 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1520 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1522 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1523 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1524 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1525 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1526 count of duplicate addresses.
1531 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1533 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1534 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1535 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1538 Improved handling of the unread tag
1540 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1541 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1542 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1543 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1544 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1545 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1546 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1548 Expanded default saved search settings
1550 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1551 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1553 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1555 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1556 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1557 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1559 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1561 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1562 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1563 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1564 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1565 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1566 the variable for details.
1571 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1573 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1574 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1575 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1576 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1578 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1580 Previously, library users were required to call
1581 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1582 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1583 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1584 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1585 too out of date for that API.
1587 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1589 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1590 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1591 atomic section will be aborted.
1593 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1594 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1596 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1598 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1599 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1600 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1601 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1602 messages into the same thread.
1607 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1608 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1609 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1610 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1611 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1612 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1617 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1618 from the config file. Use something like:
1622 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1623 "footer": "</body></html>",
1632 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1637 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1638 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1639 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1641 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1642 ===========================
1647 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1649 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1651 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1653 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1654 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1656 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1658 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1661 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1662 ===========================
1664 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1669 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1671 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1673 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1675 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1677 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1683 Use --quick when starting emacs
1685 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1687 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1689 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1691 Command-Line Interface
1692 ----------------------
1694 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1695 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1700 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1702 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1703 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1705 Fix for phrase indexing
1707 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1708 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1709 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1714 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1716 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1717 unintentionally removed.
1719 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1720 =========================
1725 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1726 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1727 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1728 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1729 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1730 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1731 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1732 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1733 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1739 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1741 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1742 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1743 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1744 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1745 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1746 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1747 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1748 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1750 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1752 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1753 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1754 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1755 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1758 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1760 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1761 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1762 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1763 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1764 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1765 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1766 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1771 Notmuch database upgrade
1773 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1774 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1775 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1776 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1777 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1778 released version of Notmuch before now.
1780 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1782 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1783 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1784 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1785 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1787 Message header parsing changes
1789 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1790 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1791 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1792 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1793 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1794 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1796 Command-Line Interface
1797 ----------------------
1799 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1801 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1803 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1805 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1807 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1809 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1810 user does not want it.
1812 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1814 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1815 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1816 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1817 support formatted output.
1819 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1821 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1822 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1823 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1831 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1832 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1833 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1834 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1835 `~/.emacs` with these.
1837 Changed format for saved searches
1839 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1840 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1841 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1842 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1845 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1846 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1847 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1848 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1850 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1851 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1852 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1854 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1855 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1856 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1857 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1858 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1860 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1862 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1863 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1864 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1866 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1868 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1869 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1870 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1871 message had been unread).
1873 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1874 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1875 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1876 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1878 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1879 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1880 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1882 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1883 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1884 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1885 to tags already present.
1889 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1890 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1891 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1892 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1893 these differ from each other.
1894 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1896 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1898 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1899 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1900 for these Emacs versions.
1902 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1904 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1905 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1907 Bug fixes for sender identities
1909 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1910 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1911 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1913 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1915 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1916 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1917 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1918 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1920 Reply pushes mark before signature
1922 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1923 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1924 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1926 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1928 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1929 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1935 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1936 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1938 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1939 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1940 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1941 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1943 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1944 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1945 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1946 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1947 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1949 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1951 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1952 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1954 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1955 =========================
1957 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1958 ---------------------------------------
1960 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1961 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1962 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1963 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1964 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1965 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1966 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1970 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1971 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1973 Command-Line Interface
1974 ----------------------
1976 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1978 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1979 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1980 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1981 print for each message.
1983 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1984 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1985 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1986 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1988 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1990 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1991 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1992 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1994 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1996 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1997 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1998 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1999 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2001 `notmuch compact` command
2003 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2004 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2005 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2006 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2007 move the compacted database into place.
2012 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2014 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2015 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2016 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2017 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2018 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2019 and multiple threads.
2021 Using `notmuch-tree`
2023 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2025 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2026 search, show and tree mode itself)
2028 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2031 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2032 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2034 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2036 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2037 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2038 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2039 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2040 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2041 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2042 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2044 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2046 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2047 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2048 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2049 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2050 thread when the search was performed.
2052 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2054 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2055 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2056 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2058 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2060 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2061 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2064 Built-in help improvements
2066 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2067 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2068 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2070 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2072 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2073 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2074 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2076 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2078 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2079 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2081 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2083 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2084 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2085 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2086 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2088 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2090 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2091 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2092 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2093 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2095 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2097 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2098 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2099 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2101 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2103 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2104 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2105 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2107 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2109 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2110 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2111 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2112 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2113 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2115 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2117 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2118 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2119 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2120 the body part of the message.
2125 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2126 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2127 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2129 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2130 =========================
2132 Command-Line Interface
2133 ----------------------
2135 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2137 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2138 folder and notmuch index.
2140 `notmuch count --batch` option
2142 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2143 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2145 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2147 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2148 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2149 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2152 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2154 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2155 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2156 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2157 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2158 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2161 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2163 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2164 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2166 Top level option to specify configuration file
2168 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2169 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2171 Bash command-line completion
2173 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2174 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2175 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2176 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2177 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2178 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2179 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2180 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2181 bash-completion package.
2183 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2188 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2190 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2191 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2192 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2193 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2194 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2195 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2196 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2197 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2199 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2201 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2202 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2203 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2205 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2207 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2208 previous thread in the search results.
2210 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2212 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2213 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2215 Faster search and show
2217 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2218 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2219 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2220 threads should show faster.
2224 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2225 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2226 in question was now removed from this release.
2231 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2232 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2237 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2239 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2240 ===========================
2245 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2247 Internal test framework changes
2248 -------------------------------
2250 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2251 being unimplemented.
2253 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2254 ===========================
2256 Internal test framework changes
2257 -------------------------------
2259 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2260 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2262 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2263 =========================
2268 Date range search support
2270 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2271 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2272 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2273 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2274 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2277 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2279 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2280 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2281 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2282 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2283 but may be removed in a future release.
2285 Command-Line Interface
2286 ----------------------
2288 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2290 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2291 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2293 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2295 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2296 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2297 officially deprecated.
2299 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2301 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2302 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2303 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2305 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2307 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2308 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2311 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2312 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2313 dump/restore format.
2315 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2317 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2318 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2319 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2321 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2323 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2324 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2325 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2327 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2329 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2330 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2331 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2332 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2337 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2339 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2340 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2341 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2342 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2344 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2346 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2347 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2348 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2349 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2350 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2351 the behavior of this, see
2352 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2353 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2355 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2356 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2357 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2359 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2361 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2362 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2365 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2367 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2368 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2369 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2370 simply displayed in place of the message.
2372 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2374 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2375 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2377 Improved text/calendar content handling
2379 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2380 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2381 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2382 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2384 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2386 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2387 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2388 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2389 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2391 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2393 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2394 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2395 for HTML email containing images.
2397 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2399 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2401 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2403 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2406 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2408 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2409 the point where it was.
2411 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2413 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2414 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2415 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2416 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2417 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2419 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2421 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2422 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2423 thread instead of the message id.
2425 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2426 -----------------------------
2428 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2429 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2430 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2431 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2432 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2433 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2434 further details and installation.
2439 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2441 Internal test framework changes
2442 -------------------------------
2444 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2446 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2447 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2448 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2449 can result in buggy behavior.
2451 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2452 =========================
2457 Maildir tag synchronization
2459 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2460 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2461 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2462 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2463 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2464 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2467 Command-Line Interface
2468 ----------------------
2470 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2471 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2472 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2473 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2474 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2480 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2482 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2484 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2485 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2486 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2488 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2490 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2491 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2492 span multiple lines.
2494 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2496 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2497 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2498 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2499 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2500 inside the result or message.
2502 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2504 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2505 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2507 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2508 user-specified formatting
2510 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2511 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2512 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2513 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2514 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2516 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2517 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2519 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2520 ===========================
2525 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2526 compilation error for this contrib package.
2528 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2529 ===========================
2534 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2536 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2537 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2538 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2539 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2541 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2542 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2545 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2546 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2547 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2548 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2551 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2553 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2556 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2557 =========================
2559 Command-Line Interface
2560 ----------------------
2564 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2565 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2566 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2567 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2569 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2570 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2571 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2572 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2576 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2577 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2579 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2580 tag in your query, for example:
2582 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2584 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2585 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2587 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2588 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2590 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2592 Raw show format changes
2594 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2595 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2596 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2597 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2598 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2599 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2600 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2601 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2603 Listing configuration items
2605 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2611 Changes to tagging interface
2613 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2614 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2615 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2616 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2617 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2618 for more information.
2620 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2621 may need to update in custom configurations.
2623 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2625 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2626 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2627 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2628 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2631 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2632 -----------------------------
2634 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2635 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2636 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2637 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2638 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2639 contrib/ from now on.
2644 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2645 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2647 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2648 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2650 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2651 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2652 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2654 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2655 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2657 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2658 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2659 returning the new database object or directory object.
2666 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2667 compatible with go 1.
2669 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2670 =========================
2672 Command-Line Interface
2673 ----------------------
2677 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2678 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2679 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2680 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2682 Mail store folder/file ignore
2684 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2685 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2686 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2688 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2689 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2691 Unified help and manual pages
2693 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2694 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2697 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2699 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2700 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2708 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2709 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2710 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2711 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2713 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2715 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2716 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2718 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2721 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2722 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2723 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2725 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2727 should be changed to:
2729 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2731 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2733 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2734 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2736 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2738 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2739 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2740 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2741 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2742 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2743 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2747 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2748 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2749 of Mailing List Archives.
2751 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2753 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2754 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2757 Show view archiving key binding changes
2759 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2760 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2761 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2762 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2763 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2766 Support text/calendar MIME type
2768 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2771 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2773 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2774 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2775 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2776 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2778 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2780 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2781 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2782 messages blue by default in the search view.
2786 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2787 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2794 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2797 Python bindings changes
2798 -----------------------
2800 Python 3.2 compatibility
2802 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2804 Added missing unicode conversions
2806 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2807 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2808 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2813 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2815 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2816 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2817 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2818 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2819 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2821 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2822 ===========================
2827 Fix error handling in python bindings
2829 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2830 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2831 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2832 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2834 Quote MML tags in replies
2836 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2837 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2838 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2839 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2840 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2841 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2842 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2843 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2845 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2846 =========================
2848 Command-Line Interface
2849 ----------------------
2853 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2854 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2855 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2856 importing new messages into the database.
2858 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2860 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2861 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2862 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2867 Automatic tag query optimization
2869 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2870 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2871 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2873 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2875 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2876 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2877 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2882 Reduction of memory leaks
2884 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2885 and fixed in this release.
2892 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2893 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2894 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2897 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2899 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2900 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2901 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2904 Improvements in saved search management
2906 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2907 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2908 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2910 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2912 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2913 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2914 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2916 New face for crypto parts headers
2918 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2919 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2920 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2923 Use space as default thousands separator
2925 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2926 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2927 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2929 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2930 buttonized id: links
2932 New function notmuch-show-advance
2934 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2935 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2936 be bound to SPC with:
2938 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2940 Various performance improvements
2945 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2946 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2949 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2950 ===========================
2955 Fix crash in python bindings
2957 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2958 for some, but not all users.
2960 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2961 ===========================
2966 Fix `--help` argument
2968 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2969 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2970 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2972 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2973 =========================
2975 New build and testing features
2976 ------------------------------
2978 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2979 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2980 prerequisites is improved.
2982 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2984 New command-line features
2985 -------------------------
2987 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2989 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2990 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2993 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2995 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2996 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2997 favour of using stdout.
2999 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3001 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3002 limit the number of results shown.
3004 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3006 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3007 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3010 New emacs UI features
3011 ---------------------
3013 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3015 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3016 starting with "tag:".
3018 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3020 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3021 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3023 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3025 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3027 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3029 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3030 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3035 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3037 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3039 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3040 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3041 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3042 requires a database rebuild:
3044 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3045 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3047 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3049 New collection of add-on tools
3050 ------------------------------
3052 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3053 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3054 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3057 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3059 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3060 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3061 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3063 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3064 ========================
3066 New, general features
3067 ---------------------
3069 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3071 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3072 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3073 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3074 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3075 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3082 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3083 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3085 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3089 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3090 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3091 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3094 Python bindings changes
3095 -----------------------
3097 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3099 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3100 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3101 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3102 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3103 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3104 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3106 Ruby bindings changes
3107 ---------------------
3109 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3110 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3111 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3112 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3117 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3119 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3120 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3122 Reply formatting cleanup
3123 ------------------------
3125 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3126 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3128 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3129 ========================
3131 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3133 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3134 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3135 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3136 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3139 Improved Build system portability
3141 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3142 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3143 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3145 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3147 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3149 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3151 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3152 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3153 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3155 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3156 ========================
3158 Vim interface improvements
3159 --------------------------
3161 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3163 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3164 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3165 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3166 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3167 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3169 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3171 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3172 * fix compose temp file name
3174 Python Bindings changes
3175 -----------------------
3177 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3179 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3180 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3182 Build-System improvements
3183 -------------------------
3185 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3187 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3190 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3191 ==========================
3196 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3198 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3199 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3201 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3202 =======================
3204 New, general features
3205 ---------------------
3207 Folder-based searching
3209 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3210 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3211 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3215 For example, one might use things such as:
3221 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3222 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3224 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3225 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3226 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3227 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3229 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3230 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3231 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3234 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3235 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3237 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3239 Support for PGP/MIME
3241 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3242 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3243 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3245 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3247 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3248 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3250 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3251 notmuch will receive these tags.
3253 New command-line features
3254 -------------------------
3256 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3258 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3259 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3261 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3263 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3264 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3265 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3267 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3269 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3270 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3271 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3272 which parts a signature part applies).
3274 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3276 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3277 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3278 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3279 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3280 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3283 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3285 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3286 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3287 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3288 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3289 by translating it internally to the new call.
3291 Performance improvements
3292 ------------------------
3294 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3296 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3297 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3298 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3300 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3301 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3303 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3305 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3306 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3307 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3309 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3310 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3311 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3312 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3314 Faster initial indexing
3316 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3317 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3318 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3320 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3322 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3323 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3324 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3325 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3327 New emacs-interface features
3328 ----------------------------
3330 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3332 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3333 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3334 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3335 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3336 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3337 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3339 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3341 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3342 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3343 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3344 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3346 User-selectable From address
3348 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3349 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3350 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3351 will prompt for the from address to use.
3353 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3354 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3355 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3357 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3358 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3359 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3362 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3364 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3365 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3367 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3369 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3371 ----- Original Message -----
3373 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3374 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3375 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3376 citations work much like conventional citations.
3378 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3380 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3381 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3382 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3383 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3384 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3386 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3387 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3389 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3391 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3392 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3393 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3395 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3397 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3398 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3399 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3400 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3401 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3403 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3405 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3408 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3410 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3412 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3414 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3417 Vim interface improvements
3418 --------------------------
3420 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3422 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3423 * Implementing archive in show view
3424 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3425 * Add delete commands
3428 Bindings improvements
3429 ---------------------
3431 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3433 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3434 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3436 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3438 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3442 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3443 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3444 `list(Messages)` works now
3445 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3447 These allow, for example:
3449 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3451 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3453 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3459 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3461 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3464 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3466 New build-system features
3467 -------------------------
3469 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3471 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3472 the configure script from some other directory:
3479 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3481 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3482 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3483 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3484 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3485 manual invocation of configure.
3487 New test-suite feature
3488 ----------------------
3490 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3492 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3493 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3494 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3495 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3496 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3499 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3501 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3502 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3503 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3504 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3505 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3506 are updated to take advantage of this.
3508 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3510 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3511 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3512 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3513 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3519 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3521 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3522 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3523 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3525 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3527 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3529 to:user@elsewhere.com
3531 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3533 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3535 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3537 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3538 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3539 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3542 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3543 from the Received headers in some cases
3545 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3546 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3548 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3550 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3552 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3554 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3555 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3556 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3558 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3559 -------------------------
3561 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3563 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3564 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3565 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3567 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3569 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3570 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3571 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3574 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3576 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3577 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3578 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3579 fixed to avoid this bug.
3581 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3583 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3584 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3586 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3587 ========================
3589 New, general features
3590 ---------------------
3592 Maildir-flag synchronization
3594 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3595 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3604 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3606 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3607 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3608 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3609 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3611 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3612 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3613 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3614 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3617 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3619 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3620 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3621 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3623 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3624 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3626 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3627 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3629 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3630 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3631 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3633 New library features
3634 --------------------
3636 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3638 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3639 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3640 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3641 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3643 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3644 message with the new function:
3646 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3648 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3649 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3650 over all available filenames for a given message.
3652 New command-line features
3653 -------------------------
3655 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3657 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3658 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3659 access to the mail store itself.
3661 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3662 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3663 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3664 name of a script containing:
3666 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3668 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3669 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3675 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3677 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3679 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3681 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3682 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3683 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3684 now produces nothing).
3686 Emacs interface improvements
3687 ----------------------------
3689 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3691 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3693 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3695 Display current thread subject in a header line
3697 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3699 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3701 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3702 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3703 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3704 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3705 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3706 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3707 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3709 Vim interface improvements
3710 --------------------------
3712 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3714 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3715 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3721 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3723 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3724 ========================
3726 New command-line features
3727 -------------------------
3729 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3731 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3732 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3733 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3735 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3736 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3737 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3738 scripts. For example:
3740 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3741 <operations-on> "$file"
3744 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3746 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3747 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3748 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3749 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3750 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3751 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3753 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3755 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3756 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3757 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3758 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3760 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3762 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3763 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3764 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3765 default rather than Bcc.
3767 New library features
3768 --------------------
3770 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3772 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3773 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3778 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3780 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3781 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3782 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3783 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3784 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3785 notmuch customize interface.
3787 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3789 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3790 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3791 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3792 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3794 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3796 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3797 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3798 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3799 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3801 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3803 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3804 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3805 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3806 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3807 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3808 notmuch customize interface.
3810 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3812 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3813 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3814 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3815 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3816 notmuch customize interface.
3818 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3820 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3821 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3822 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3823 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3826 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3828 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3829 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3830 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3833 New build-system features
3834 -------------------------
3836 Various portability fixes have been applied
3838 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3839 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3840 more portable than ever before.
3842 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3844 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3845 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3846 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3848 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3849 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3850 automatically run ldconfig.
3852 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3853 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3854 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3856 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3857 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3858 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3859 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3861 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3863 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3864 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3865 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3866 used in the resulting Makefile.
3868 New test-suite features
3869 -----------------------
3871 New modularization of test suite
3873 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3874 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3875 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3876 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3877 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3878 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3879 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3880 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3882 New testing of emacs interface
3884 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3885 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3886 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3887 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3888 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3889 database via the FCC setting.
3894 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3896 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3897 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3898 persistent error of the form:
3900 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3902 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3903 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3905 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3907 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3908 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3909 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3911 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3913 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3914 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3915 parsing the notmuch results).
3917 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3919 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3922 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3923 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3924 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3929 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3931 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3932 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3933 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3934 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3935 the emacs interface.
3937 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3939 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3940 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3941 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3943 Python-binding fixes
3944 --------------------
3946 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3948 Debian-specific fixes
3949 ---------------------
3951 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3953 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3954 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3955 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3958 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3959 ==========================
3964 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3966 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3967 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3968 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3969 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3971 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3973 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3974 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3975 want notmuch to crash.
3980 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3982 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3983 directory does not exist
3988 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3990 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3991 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3993 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3994 ========================
3996 New command-line features
3997 -------------------------
3999 User-configurable tags for new messages
4001 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4002 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4003 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4004 to specify this value.
4006 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4008 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4009 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4010 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4012 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4014 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4015 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4017 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4019 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4020 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4021 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4022 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4023 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4026 Indication of author names that match a search
4028 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4029 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4030 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4031 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4032 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4033 messages in the thread are listed first.
4035 New: Python bindings
4036 --------------------
4038 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4039 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4040 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4041 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4043 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4044 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4045 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4048 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4049 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4050 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4052 Emacs interface improvements
4053 ----------------------------
4055 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4057 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4058 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4059 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4060 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4061 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4062 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4063 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4064 but without any of the disadvantages).
4066 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4067 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4068 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4071 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4072 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4073 instead running something like:
4075 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4077 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4078 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4079 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4082 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4084 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4085 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4086 tweaked by the user.
4088 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4089 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4090 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4093 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4094 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4095 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4098 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4100 This support currently relies on an external program,
4101 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4102 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4103 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4104 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4105 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4108 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4109 notmuch) is available via:
4111 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4113 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4114 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4115 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4117 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4119 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4120 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4121 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4122 making this automatic in a future release.
4124 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4126 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4127 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4128 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4129 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4130 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4131 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4134 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4136 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4137 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4138 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4140 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4142 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4143 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4144 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4146 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4147 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4148 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4149 other representation.
4151 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4152 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4155 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4157 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4158 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4159 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4161 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4162 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4163 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4165 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4167 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4168 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4169 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4170 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4171 to display the search result.
4173 More flexible handling of header visibility
4175 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4176 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4177 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4178 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4179 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4180 with the 'h' keybinding.
4182 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4183 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4184 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4186 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4188 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4190 Customizable formatting of search results
4192 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4193 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4194 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4196 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4198 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4200 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4205 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4207 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4208 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4209 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4210 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4216 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4218 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4219 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4221 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4223 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4224 accept are now all accepted.
4229 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4231 Better display of output from failed tests
4233 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4234 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4236 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4237 ========================
4239 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4240 detailed release notes this time!
4242 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4243 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4245 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4246 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4247 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4248 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4255 Better guessing of From: header
4257 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4258 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4259 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4260 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4261 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4264 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4266 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4267 guaranteed to match all messages.
4269 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4271 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4272 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4273 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4274 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4275 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4278 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4281 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4282 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4283 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4284 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4289 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4291 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4292 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4293 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4294 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4296 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4298 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4300 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4301 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4302 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4304 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4306 Previously, the user might see:
4308 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4312 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4314 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4315 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4316 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4317 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4319 Emacs client features
4320 ---------------------
4322 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4324 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4325 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4326 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4327 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4328 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4330 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4333 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4334 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4335 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4336 search with the '*' binding.
4338 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4340 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4341 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4344 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4346 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4347 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4348 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4350 Build-system features
4351 ---------------------
4353 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4355 Add support to configure for many standard options
4357 We include actual support for:
4359 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4361 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4363 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4364 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4366 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4367 separate "make install-emacs"
4369 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4371 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4372 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4373 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4375 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4378 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4379 ========================
4381 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4383 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4384 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4386 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4387 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4388 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4389 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4390 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4391 tags from messages in a thread.
4398 indent-tabs-mode: nil