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.
27 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
28 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
29 non-status providing versions.
31 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
32 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
34 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
35 promised in the documentation.
40 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
41 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
42 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
47 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
50 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
51 =========================
56 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
57 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
58 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
61 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
67 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
68 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
69 notmuch-properties(7)).
74 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
75 has protected headers (see
76 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
77 notmuch-properties(7)).
82 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
84 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
85 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
91 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
94 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
95 ===========================
100 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
102 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
107 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
109 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
110 ===========================
115 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
116 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
118 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
119 ===========================
124 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
126 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
127 =========================
132 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
133 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
136 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
137 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
138 the set of headers to be indexed.
140 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
143 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
144 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
145 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
148 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
149 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
150 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
152 Command Line Interface
153 ----------------------
155 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
158 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
160 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
161 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
162 more details about what is included there. This status includes
163 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
168 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
169 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
171 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
173 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
175 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
177 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
179 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
182 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
184 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
185 and may be removed in a future release.
187 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
193 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
195 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
196 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
201 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
202 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
203 cryptography support.
208 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
209 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
210 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
212 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
213 ===========================
215 Command line interface
216 ----------------------
218 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
219 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
221 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
222 ===========================
227 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
228 by message properties.
233 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
235 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
236 ===========================
241 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
246 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
247 now needed to build this documentation.
249 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
250 ===========================
255 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
256 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
258 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
259 =========================
266 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
267 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
268 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
269 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
270 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
273 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
275 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
276 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
277 correct encoding for such messages.
279 Command Line Interface
280 ----------------------
282 Support relative database paths
284 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
285 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
286 to $HOME of the invoking user.
291 Improve stderr handling
293 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
294 needed on e.g. macOS.
296 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
298 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
303 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
304 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
310 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
311 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
317 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
318 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
321 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
322 =========================
327 Add support for thread:{} queries
329 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
330 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
331 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
333 Command Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
338 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
340 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
342 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
343 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
344 does not have to be available during message receipt.
349 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
355 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
356 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
358 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
359 ===========================
364 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
366 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
367 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
368 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
370 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
372 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
373 related abort in `notmuch show`.
375 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
376 ===========================
381 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
382 better late than never.
385 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
386 =========================
388 Command Line Interface
389 ----------------------
391 Support for re-indexing existing messages
393 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
394 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
395 change the way specific messages are indexed.
397 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
398 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
399 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
401 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
403 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
405 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
407 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
408 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
409 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
410 the setting of `new.tags`.
412 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
414 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
416 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
418 This inserts into the top level folder.
420 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
422 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
424 New option --output=address for notmuch address
426 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
428 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
430 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
431 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
432 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
434 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
439 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
441 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
442 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
443 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
444 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
445 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
446 config set index.decrypt true".
448 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
449 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
450 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
451 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
452 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
453 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
454 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
455 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
457 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
458 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
459 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
460 this feature without considering the security of your index.
465 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
467 Use make-process when available
469 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
470 notmuch command without using temporary files.
475 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
477 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
478 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
479 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
480 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
482 New functions to count files
484 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
485 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
487 New function to remove properties
489 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
490 drop all properties with a common pattern:
491 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
493 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
495 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
496 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
497 possibility of NULL was not documented.
499 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
501 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
502 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
503 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
504 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
505 operator may decide to change from message to message.
512 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
513 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
514 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
520 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
522 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
523 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
525 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
527 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
529 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
531 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
536 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
537 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
539 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
540 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
541 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
542 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
543 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
544 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
549 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
551 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
552 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
553 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
554 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
556 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
557 ===========================
562 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
563 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
566 Command Line Interface
567 ----------------------
569 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
570 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
573 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
574 ===========================
576 Command Line Interface
577 ----------------------
579 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
580 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
585 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
588 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
589 ===========================
594 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
597 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
598 =========================
603 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
605 Skip HTML tags when indexing
607 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
609 Command Line Interface
610 ----------------------
612 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
614 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
619 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
621 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
622 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
625 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
630 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
632 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
633 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
635 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
637 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
638 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
641 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
643 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
645 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
647 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
648 ===========================
650 Command Line Interface
651 ----------------------
653 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
658 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
660 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
661 ===========================
666 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
668 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
669 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
672 Command Line Interface
673 ----------------------
675 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
677 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
679 Fix bug in dump header
681 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
682 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
683 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
688 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
690 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
691 =========================
696 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
698 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
701 Command Line Interface
702 ----------------------
704 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
706 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
707 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
708 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
710 New default output format to 3
712 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
713 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
714 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
715 default format changes.
720 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
722 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
723 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
724 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
725 or tree view to resume.
727 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
728 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
729 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
732 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
733 they were when you postponed in the final message.
737 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
738 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
739 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
740 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
741 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
745 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
746 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
747 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
748 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
749 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
750 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
754 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
755 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
757 Stop display of `application/*` parts
759 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
760 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
761 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
762 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
763 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
764 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
765 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
766 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
769 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
771 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
772 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
773 only tagged the current thread.)
775 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
777 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
778 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
779 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
781 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
783 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
784 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
785 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
786 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
787 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
788 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
789 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
791 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
793 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
794 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
795 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
800 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
802 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
805 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
807 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
810 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
811 ===========================
816 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
818 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
819 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
820 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
823 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
824 ===========================
826 Command Line Interface
827 ----------------------
829 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
834 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
836 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
837 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
838 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
840 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
841 ===========================
846 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
847 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
849 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
850 ===========================
852 Command Line Interface
853 ----------------------
855 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
857 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
858 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
859 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
864 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
866 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
867 ===========================
869 Command Line Interface
870 ----------------------
872 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
877 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
879 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
880 ===========================
885 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
887 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
888 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
889 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
891 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
893 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
895 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
896 ===========================
901 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
903 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
908 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
910 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
911 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
912 the original colours.
914 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
915 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
917 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
919 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
920 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
921 bug, and hence the test.
923 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
924 =========================
926 General (Xapian 1.4+)
927 ---------------------
929 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
931 Support for single argument date: queries
933 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
935 Support for blocking opens
937 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
938 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
940 Support for named queries
942 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
943 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
944 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
951 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
952 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
953 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
954 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
956 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
958 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
963 Support for compile time options
965 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
966 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
969 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
971 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
972 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
973 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
974 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
975 scripts to ignore it.
980 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
982 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
983 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
984 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
986 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
987 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
988 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
989 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
990 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
991 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
992 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
994 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
995 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
998 Make internal address completion customizable
1000 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1001 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1002 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1003 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1006 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1008 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1009 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1010 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1011 completion for the current buffer.
1013 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1014 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1015 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1019 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1020 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1021 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1022 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1023 will be added instead.
1025 Face customization is easier
1027 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1028 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1029 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1030 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1032 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1037 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1042 Go bindings moved to contrib
1044 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1046 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1048 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1049 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1051 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1053 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1054 ===========================
1061 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1062 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1064 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1066 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1068 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1069 ===========================
1074 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1076 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1081 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1086 Use `env` to locate perl.
1091 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1093 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1095 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1097 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1099 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1100 =========================
1107 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1108 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1110 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1112 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1113 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1114 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1119 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1120 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1121 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1123 Command Line Interface
1124 ----------------------
1126 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1128 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1133 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1138 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1140 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1141 parts are now included in replies.
1143 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1144 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1145 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1146 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1148 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1150 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1152 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1154 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1155 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1156 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1157 forwards only the current message.
1159 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1161 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1162 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1163 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1164 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1165 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1166 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1167 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1168 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1171 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1172 longer generate empty buffers
1174 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1175 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1176 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1177 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1178 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1180 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1182 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1185 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1187 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1190 Address completion improvements
1192 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1193 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1194 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1195 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1196 interactive address completion.
1198 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1200 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1201 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1202 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1207 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1208 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1209 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1215 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1216 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1217 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1218 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1219 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1220 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1222 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1223 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1224 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1225 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1226 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1227 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1229 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1230 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1232 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1233 =========================
1238 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1241 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1243 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1244 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1245 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1247 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1248 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1250 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1251 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1252 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1254 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1256 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1257 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1258 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1259 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1260 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1261 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1266 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1267 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1270 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1271 option to configure.
1273 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1275 Command Line Interface
1276 ----------------------
1278 Database revision tracking
1280 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1281 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1282 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1283 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1285 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1287 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1288 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1289 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1290 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1291 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1292 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1293 manual page for further information.
1298 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1300 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1301 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1303 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1305 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1306 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1307 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1309 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1311 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1313 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1314 customization as well.
1316 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1318 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1320 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1322 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1324 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1325 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1326 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1327 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1329 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1331 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1332 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1333 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1334 this variable to 10000.
1339 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1340 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1342 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1344 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1345 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1346 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1347 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1348 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1349 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1350 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1351 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1352 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1355 Database revision tracking
1357 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1358 query parser and the new function
1359 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1361 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1363 Deprecated functions
1365 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1366 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1367 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1368 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1373 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1375 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1376 ===========================
1381 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1383 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1384 ===========================
1389 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1391 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1392 =========================
1394 Command-Line Interface
1395 ----------------------
1397 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1399 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1400 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1401 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1403 Path to gpg is now configurable
1405 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1406 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1411 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1413 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1418 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1423 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1428 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1430 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1431 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1433 New error logging facility
1435 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1436 output formerly printed to stderr.
1438 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1440 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1442 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1444 Fix for rounding of seconds
1449 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1451 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1452 documentation has been removed.
1454 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1456 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1457 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1462 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1463 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1464 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1469 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1470 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1471 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1472 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1473 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1474 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1477 git checkout config origin/config
1479 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1481 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1482 =========================
1487 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1488 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1489 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1490 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1491 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1492 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1493 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1495 Command-Line Interface
1496 ----------------------
1498 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1500 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1501 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1502 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1503 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1504 script callers should still check the return value.
1506 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1508 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1509 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1510 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1511 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1512 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1513 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1514 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1516 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1518 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1519 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1520 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1522 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1524 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1525 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1526 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1527 currently unmaintained.
1529 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1531 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1532 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1533 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1534 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1536 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1538 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1539 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1540 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1541 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1542 count of duplicate addresses.
1547 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1549 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1550 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1551 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1554 Improved handling of the unread tag
1556 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1557 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1558 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1559 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1560 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1561 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1562 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1564 Expanded default saved search settings
1566 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1567 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1569 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1571 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1572 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1573 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1575 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1577 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1578 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1579 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1580 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1581 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1582 the variable for details.
1587 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1589 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1590 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1591 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1592 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1594 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1596 Previously, library users were required to call
1597 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1598 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1599 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1600 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1601 too out of date for that API.
1603 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1605 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1606 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1607 atomic section will be aborted.
1609 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1610 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1612 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1614 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1615 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1616 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1617 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1618 messages into the same thread.
1623 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1624 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1625 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1626 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1627 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1628 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1633 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1634 from the config file. Use something like:
1638 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1639 "footer": "</body></html>",
1648 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1653 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1654 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1655 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1657 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1658 ===========================
1663 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1665 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1667 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1669 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1670 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1672 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1674 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1677 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1678 ===========================
1680 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1685 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1687 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1689 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1691 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1693 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1699 Use --quick when starting emacs
1701 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1703 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1705 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1707 Command-Line Interface
1708 ----------------------
1710 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1711 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1716 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1718 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1719 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1721 Fix for phrase indexing
1723 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1724 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1725 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1730 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1732 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1733 unintentionally removed.
1735 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1736 =========================
1741 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1742 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1743 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1744 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1745 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1746 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1747 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1748 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1749 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1755 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1757 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1758 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1759 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1760 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1761 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1762 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1763 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1764 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1766 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1768 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1769 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1770 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1771 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1774 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1776 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1777 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1778 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1779 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1780 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1781 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1782 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1787 Notmuch database upgrade
1789 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1790 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1791 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1792 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1793 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1794 released version of Notmuch before now.
1796 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1798 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1799 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1800 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1801 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1803 Message header parsing changes
1805 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1806 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1807 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1808 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1809 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1810 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1812 Command-Line Interface
1813 ----------------------
1815 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1817 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1819 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1821 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1823 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1825 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1826 user does not want it.
1828 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1830 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1831 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1832 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1833 support formatted output.
1835 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1837 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1838 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1839 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1847 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1848 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1849 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1850 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1851 `~/.emacs` with these.
1853 Changed format for saved searches
1855 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1856 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1857 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1858 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1861 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1862 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1863 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1864 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1866 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1867 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1868 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1870 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1871 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1872 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1873 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1874 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1876 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1878 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1879 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1880 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1882 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1884 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1885 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1886 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1887 message had been unread).
1889 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1890 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1891 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1892 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1894 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1895 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1896 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1898 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1899 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1900 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1901 to tags already present.
1905 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1906 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1907 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1908 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1909 these differ from each other.
1910 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1912 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1914 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1915 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1916 for these Emacs versions.
1918 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1920 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1921 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1923 Bug fixes for sender identities
1925 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1926 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1927 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1929 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1931 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1932 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1933 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1934 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1936 Reply pushes mark before signature
1938 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1939 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1940 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1942 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1944 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1945 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1951 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1952 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1954 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1955 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1956 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1957 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1959 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1960 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1961 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1962 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1963 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1965 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1967 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1968 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1970 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1971 =========================
1973 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1974 ---------------------------------------
1976 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1977 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1978 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1979 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1980 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1981 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1982 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1986 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1987 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1989 Command-Line Interface
1990 ----------------------
1992 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1994 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1995 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1996 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1997 print for each message.
1999 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2000 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2001 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2002 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2004 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2006 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2007 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2008 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2010 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2012 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2013 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2014 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2015 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2017 `notmuch compact` command
2019 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2020 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2021 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2022 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2023 move the compacted database into place.
2028 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2030 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2031 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2032 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2033 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2034 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2035 and multiple threads.
2037 Using `notmuch-tree`
2039 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2041 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2042 search, show and tree mode itself)
2044 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2047 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2048 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2050 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2052 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2053 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2054 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2055 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2056 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2057 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2058 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2060 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2062 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2063 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2064 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2065 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2066 thread when the search was performed.
2068 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2070 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2071 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2072 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2074 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2076 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2077 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2080 Built-in help improvements
2082 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2083 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2084 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2086 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2088 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2089 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2090 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2092 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2094 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2095 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2097 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2099 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2100 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2101 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2102 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2104 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2106 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2107 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2108 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2109 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2111 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2113 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2114 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2115 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2117 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2119 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2120 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2121 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2123 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2125 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2126 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2127 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2128 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2129 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2131 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2133 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2134 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2135 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2136 the body part of the message.
2141 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2142 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2143 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2145 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2146 =========================
2148 Command-Line Interface
2149 ----------------------
2151 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2153 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2154 folder and notmuch index.
2156 `notmuch count --batch` option
2158 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2159 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2161 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2163 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2164 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2165 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2168 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2170 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2171 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2172 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2173 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2174 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2177 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2179 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2180 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2182 Top level option to specify configuration file
2184 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2185 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2187 Bash command-line completion
2189 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2190 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2191 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2192 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2193 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2194 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2195 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2196 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2197 bash-completion package.
2199 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2204 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2206 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2207 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2208 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2209 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2210 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2211 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2212 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2213 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2215 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2217 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2218 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2219 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2221 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2223 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2224 previous thread in the search results.
2226 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2228 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2229 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2231 Faster search and show
2233 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2234 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2235 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2236 threads should show faster.
2240 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2241 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2242 in question was now removed from this release.
2247 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2248 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2253 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2255 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2256 ===========================
2261 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2263 Internal test framework changes
2264 -------------------------------
2266 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2267 being unimplemented.
2269 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2270 ===========================
2272 Internal test framework changes
2273 -------------------------------
2275 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2276 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2278 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2279 =========================
2284 Date range search support
2286 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2287 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2288 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2289 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2290 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2293 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2295 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2296 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2297 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2298 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2299 but may be removed in a future release.
2301 Command-Line Interface
2302 ----------------------
2304 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2306 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2307 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2309 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2311 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2312 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2313 officially deprecated.
2315 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2317 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2318 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2319 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2321 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2323 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2324 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2327 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2328 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2329 dump/restore format.
2331 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2333 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2334 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2335 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2337 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2339 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2340 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2341 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2343 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2345 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2346 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2347 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2348 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2353 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2355 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2356 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2357 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2358 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2360 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2362 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2363 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2364 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2365 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2366 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2367 the behavior of this, see
2368 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2369 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2371 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2372 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2373 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2375 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2377 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2378 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2381 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2383 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2384 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2385 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2386 simply displayed in place of the message.
2388 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2390 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2391 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2393 Improved text/calendar content handling
2395 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2396 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2397 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2398 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2400 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2402 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2403 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2404 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2405 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2407 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2409 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2410 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2411 for HTML email containing images.
2413 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2415 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2417 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2419 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2422 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2424 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2425 the point where it was.
2427 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2429 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2430 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2431 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2432 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2433 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2435 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2437 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2438 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2439 thread instead of the message id.
2441 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2442 -----------------------------
2444 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2445 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2446 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2447 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2448 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2449 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2450 further details and installation.
2455 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2457 Internal test framework changes
2458 -------------------------------
2460 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2462 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2463 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2464 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2465 can result in buggy behavior.
2467 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2468 =========================
2473 Maildir tag synchronization
2475 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2476 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2477 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2478 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2479 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2480 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2483 Command-Line Interface
2484 ----------------------
2486 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2487 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2488 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2489 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2490 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2496 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2498 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2500 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2501 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2502 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2504 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2506 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2507 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2508 span multiple lines.
2510 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2512 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2513 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2514 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2515 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2516 inside the result or message.
2518 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2520 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2521 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2523 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2524 user-specified formatting
2526 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2527 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2528 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2529 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2530 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2532 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2533 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2535 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2536 ===========================
2541 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2542 compilation error for this contrib package.
2544 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2545 ===========================
2550 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2552 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2553 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2554 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2555 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2557 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2558 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2561 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2562 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2563 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2564 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2567 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2569 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2572 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2573 =========================
2575 Command-Line Interface
2576 ----------------------
2580 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2581 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2582 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2583 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2585 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2586 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2587 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2588 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2592 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2593 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2595 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2596 tag in your query, for example:
2598 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2600 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2601 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2603 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2604 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2606 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2608 Raw show format changes
2610 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2611 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2612 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2613 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2614 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2615 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2616 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2617 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2619 Listing configuration items
2621 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2627 Changes to tagging interface
2629 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2630 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2631 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2632 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2633 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2634 for more information.
2636 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2637 may need to update in custom configurations.
2639 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2641 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2642 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2643 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2644 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2647 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2648 -----------------------------
2650 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2651 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2652 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2653 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2654 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2655 contrib/ from now on.
2660 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2661 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2663 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2664 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2666 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2667 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2668 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2670 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2671 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2673 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2674 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2675 returning the new database object or directory object.
2682 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2683 compatible with go 1.
2685 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2686 =========================
2688 Command-Line Interface
2689 ----------------------
2693 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2694 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2695 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2696 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2698 Mail store folder/file ignore
2700 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2701 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2702 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2704 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2705 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2707 Unified help and manual pages
2709 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2710 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2713 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2715 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2716 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2724 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2725 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2726 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2727 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2729 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2731 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2732 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2734 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2737 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2738 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2739 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2741 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2743 should be changed to:
2745 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2747 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2749 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2750 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2752 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2754 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2755 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2756 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2757 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2758 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2759 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2763 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2764 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2765 of Mailing List Archives.
2767 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2769 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2770 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2773 Show view archiving key binding changes
2775 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2776 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2777 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2778 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2779 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2782 Support text/calendar MIME type
2784 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2787 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2789 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2790 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2791 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2792 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2794 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2796 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2797 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2798 messages blue by default in the search view.
2802 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2803 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2810 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2813 Python bindings changes
2814 -----------------------
2816 Python 3.2 compatibility
2818 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2820 Added missing unicode conversions
2822 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2823 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2824 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2829 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2831 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2832 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2833 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2834 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2835 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2837 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2838 ===========================
2843 Fix error handling in python bindings
2845 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2846 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2847 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2848 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2850 Quote MML tags in replies
2852 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2853 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2854 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2855 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2856 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2857 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2858 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2859 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2861 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2862 =========================
2864 Command-Line Interface
2865 ----------------------
2869 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2870 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2871 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2872 importing new messages into the database.
2874 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2876 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2877 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2878 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2883 Automatic tag query optimization
2885 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2886 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2887 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2889 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2891 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2892 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2893 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2898 Reduction of memory leaks
2900 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2901 and fixed in this release.
2908 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2909 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2910 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2913 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2915 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2916 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2917 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2920 Improvements in saved search management
2922 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2923 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2924 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2926 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2928 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2929 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2930 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2932 New face for crypto parts headers
2934 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2935 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2936 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2939 Use space as default thousands separator
2941 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2942 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2943 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2945 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2946 buttonized id: links
2948 New function notmuch-show-advance
2950 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2951 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2952 be bound to SPC with:
2954 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2956 Various performance improvements
2961 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2962 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2965 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2966 ===========================
2971 Fix crash in python bindings
2973 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2974 for some, but not all users.
2976 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2977 ===========================
2982 Fix `--help` argument
2984 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2985 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2986 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2988 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2989 =========================
2991 New build and testing features
2992 ------------------------------
2994 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2995 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2996 prerequisites is improved.
2998 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3000 New command-line features
3001 -------------------------
3003 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3005 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3006 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3009 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3011 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3012 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3013 favour of using stdout.
3015 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3017 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3018 limit the number of results shown.
3020 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3022 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3023 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3026 New emacs UI features
3027 ---------------------
3029 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3031 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3032 starting with "tag:".
3034 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3036 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3037 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3039 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3041 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3043 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3045 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3046 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3051 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3053 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3055 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3056 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3057 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3058 requires a database rebuild:
3060 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3061 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3063 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3065 New collection of add-on tools
3066 ------------------------------
3068 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3069 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3070 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3073 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3075 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3076 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3077 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3079 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3080 ========================
3082 New, general features
3083 ---------------------
3085 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3087 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3088 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3089 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3090 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3091 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3098 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3099 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3101 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3105 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3106 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3107 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3110 Python bindings changes
3111 -----------------------
3113 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3115 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3116 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3117 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3118 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3119 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3120 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3122 Ruby bindings changes
3123 ---------------------
3125 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3126 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3127 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3128 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3133 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3135 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3136 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3138 Reply formatting cleanup
3139 ------------------------
3141 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3142 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3144 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3145 ========================
3147 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3149 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3150 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3151 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3152 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3155 Improved Build system portability
3157 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3158 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3159 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3161 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3163 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3165 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3167 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3168 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3169 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3171 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3172 ========================
3174 Vim interface improvements
3175 --------------------------
3177 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3179 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3180 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3181 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3182 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3183 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3185 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3187 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3188 * fix compose temp file name
3190 Python Bindings changes
3191 -----------------------
3193 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3195 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3196 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3198 Build-System improvements
3199 -------------------------
3201 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3203 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3206 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3207 ==========================
3212 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3214 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3215 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3217 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3218 =======================
3220 New, general features
3221 ---------------------
3223 Folder-based searching
3225 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3226 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3227 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3231 For example, one might use things such as:
3237 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3238 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3240 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3241 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3242 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3243 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3245 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3246 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3247 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3250 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3251 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3253 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3255 Support for PGP/MIME
3257 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3258 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3259 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3261 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3263 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3264 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3266 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3267 notmuch will receive these tags.
3269 New command-line features
3270 -------------------------
3272 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3274 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3275 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3277 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3279 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3280 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3281 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3283 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3285 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3286 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3287 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3288 which parts a signature part applies).
3290 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3292 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3293 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3294 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3295 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3296 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3299 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3301 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3302 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3303 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3304 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3305 by translating it internally to the new call.
3307 Performance improvements
3308 ------------------------
3310 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3312 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3313 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3314 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3316 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3317 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3319 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3321 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3322 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3323 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3325 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3326 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3327 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3328 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3330 Faster initial indexing
3332 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3333 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3334 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3336 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3338 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3339 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3340 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3341 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3343 New emacs-interface features
3344 ----------------------------
3346 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3348 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3349 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3350 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3351 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3352 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3353 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3355 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3357 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3358 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3359 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3360 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3362 User-selectable From address
3364 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3365 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3366 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3367 will prompt for the from address to use.
3369 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3370 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3371 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3373 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3374 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3375 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3378 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3380 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3381 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3383 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3385 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3387 ----- Original Message -----
3389 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3390 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3391 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3392 citations work much like conventional citations.
3394 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3396 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3397 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3398 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3399 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3400 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3402 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3403 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3405 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3407 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3408 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3409 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3411 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3413 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3414 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3415 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3416 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3417 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3419 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3421 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3424 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3426 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3428 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3430 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3433 Vim interface improvements
3434 --------------------------
3436 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3438 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3439 * Implementing archive in show view
3440 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3441 * Add delete commands
3444 Bindings improvements
3445 ---------------------
3447 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3449 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3450 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3452 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3454 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3458 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3459 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3460 `list(Messages)` works now
3461 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3463 These allow, for example:
3465 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3467 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3469 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3475 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3477 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3480 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3482 New build-system features
3483 -------------------------
3485 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3487 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3488 the configure script from some other directory:
3495 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3497 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3498 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3499 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3500 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3501 manual invocation of configure.
3503 New test-suite feature
3504 ----------------------
3506 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3508 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3509 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3510 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3511 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3512 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3515 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3517 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3518 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3519 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3520 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3521 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3522 are updated to take advantage of this.
3524 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3526 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3527 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3528 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3529 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3535 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3537 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3538 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3539 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3541 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3543 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3545 to:user@elsewhere.com
3547 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3549 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3551 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3553 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3554 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3555 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3558 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3559 from the Received headers in some cases
3561 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3562 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3564 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3566 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3568 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3570 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3571 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3572 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3574 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3575 -------------------------
3577 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3579 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3580 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3581 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3583 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3585 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3586 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3587 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3590 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3592 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3593 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3594 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3595 fixed to avoid this bug.
3597 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3599 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3600 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3602 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3603 ========================
3605 New, general features
3606 ---------------------
3608 Maildir-flag synchronization
3610 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3611 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3620 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3622 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3623 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3624 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3625 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3627 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3628 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3629 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3630 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3633 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3635 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3636 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3637 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3639 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3640 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3642 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3643 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3645 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3646 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3647 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3649 New library features
3650 --------------------
3652 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3654 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3655 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3656 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3657 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3659 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3660 message with the new function:
3662 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3664 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3665 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3666 over all available filenames for a given message.
3668 New command-line features
3669 -------------------------
3671 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3673 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3674 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3675 access to the mail store itself.
3677 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3678 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3679 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3680 name of a script containing:
3682 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3684 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3685 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3691 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3693 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3695 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3697 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3698 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3699 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3700 now produces nothing).
3702 Emacs interface improvements
3703 ----------------------------
3705 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3707 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3709 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3711 Display current thread subject in a header line
3713 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3715 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3717 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3718 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3719 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3720 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3721 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3722 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3723 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3725 Vim interface improvements
3726 --------------------------
3728 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3730 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3731 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3737 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3739 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3740 ========================
3742 New command-line features
3743 -------------------------
3745 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3747 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3748 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3749 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3751 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3752 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3753 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3754 scripts. For example:
3756 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3757 <operations-on> "$file"
3760 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3762 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3763 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3764 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3765 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3766 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3767 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3769 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3771 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3772 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3773 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3774 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3776 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3778 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3779 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3780 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3781 default rather than Bcc.
3783 New library features
3784 --------------------
3786 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3788 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3789 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3794 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3796 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3797 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3798 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3799 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3800 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3801 notmuch customize interface.
3803 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3805 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3806 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3807 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3808 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3810 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3812 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3813 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3814 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3815 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3817 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3819 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3820 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3821 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3822 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3823 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3824 notmuch customize interface.
3826 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3828 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3829 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3830 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3831 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3832 notmuch customize interface.
3834 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3836 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3837 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3838 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3839 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3842 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3844 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3845 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3846 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3849 New build-system features
3850 -------------------------
3852 Various portability fixes have been applied
3854 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3855 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3856 more portable than ever before.
3858 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3860 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3861 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3862 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3864 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3865 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3866 automatically run ldconfig.
3868 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3869 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3870 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3872 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3873 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3874 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3875 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3877 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3879 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3880 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3881 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3882 used in the resulting Makefile.
3884 New test-suite features
3885 -----------------------
3887 New modularization of test suite
3889 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3890 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3891 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3892 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3893 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3894 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3895 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3896 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3898 New testing of emacs interface
3900 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3901 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3902 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3903 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3904 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3905 database via the FCC setting.
3910 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3912 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3913 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3914 persistent error of the form:
3916 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3918 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3919 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3921 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3923 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3924 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3925 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3927 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3929 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3930 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3931 parsing the notmuch results).
3933 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3935 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3938 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3939 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3940 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3945 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3947 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3948 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3949 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3950 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3951 the emacs interface.
3953 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3955 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3956 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3957 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3959 Python-binding fixes
3960 --------------------
3962 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3964 Debian-specific fixes
3965 ---------------------
3967 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3969 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3970 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3971 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3974 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3975 ==========================
3980 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3982 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3983 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3984 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3985 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3987 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3989 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3990 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3991 want notmuch to crash.
3996 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3998 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3999 directory does not exist
4004 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4006 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4007 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4009 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4010 ========================
4012 New command-line features
4013 -------------------------
4015 User-configurable tags for new messages
4017 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4018 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4019 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4020 to specify this value.
4022 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4024 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4025 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4026 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4028 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4030 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4031 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4033 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4035 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4036 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4037 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4038 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4039 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4042 Indication of author names that match a search
4044 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4045 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4046 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4047 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4048 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4049 messages in the thread are listed first.
4051 New: Python bindings
4052 --------------------
4054 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4055 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4056 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4057 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4059 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4060 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4061 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4064 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4065 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4066 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4068 Emacs interface improvements
4069 ----------------------------
4071 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4073 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4074 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4075 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4076 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4077 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4078 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4079 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4080 but without any of the disadvantages).
4082 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4083 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4084 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4087 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4088 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4089 instead running something like:
4091 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4093 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4094 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4095 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4098 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4100 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4101 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4102 tweaked by the user.
4104 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4105 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4106 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4109 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4110 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4111 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4114 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4116 This support currently relies on an external program,
4117 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4118 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4119 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4120 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4121 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4124 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4125 notmuch) is available via:
4127 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4129 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4130 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4131 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4133 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4135 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4136 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4137 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4138 making this automatic in a future release.
4140 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4142 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4143 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4144 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4145 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4146 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4147 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4150 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4152 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4153 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4154 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4156 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4158 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4159 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4160 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4162 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4163 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4164 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4165 other representation.
4167 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4168 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4171 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4173 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4174 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4175 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4177 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4178 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4179 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4181 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4183 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4184 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4185 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4186 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4187 to display the search result.
4189 More flexible handling of header visibility
4191 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4192 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4193 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4194 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4195 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4196 with the 'h' keybinding.
4198 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4199 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4200 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4202 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4204 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4206 Customizable formatting of search results
4208 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4209 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4210 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4212 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4214 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4216 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4221 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4223 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4224 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4225 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4226 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4232 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4234 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4235 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4237 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4239 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4240 accept are now all accepted.
4245 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4247 Better display of output from failed tests
4249 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4250 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4252 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4253 ========================
4255 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4256 detailed release notes this time!
4258 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4259 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4261 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4262 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4263 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4264 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4271 Better guessing of From: header
4273 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4274 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4275 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4276 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4277 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4280 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4282 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4283 guaranteed to match all messages.
4285 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4287 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4288 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4289 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4290 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4291 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4294 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4297 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4298 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4299 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4300 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4305 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4307 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4308 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4309 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4310 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4312 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4314 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4316 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4317 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4318 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4320 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4322 Previously, the user might see:
4324 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4328 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4330 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4331 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4332 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4333 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4335 Emacs client features
4336 ---------------------
4338 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4340 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4341 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4342 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4343 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4344 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4346 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4349 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4350 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4351 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4352 search with the '*' binding.
4354 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4356 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4357 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4360 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4362 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4363 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4364 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4366 Build-system features
4367 ---------------------
4369 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4371 Add support to configure for many standard options
4373 We include actual support for:
4375 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4377 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4379 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4380 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4382 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4383 separate "make install-emacs"
4385 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4387 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4388 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4389 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4391 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4394 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4395 ========================
4397 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4399 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4400 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4402 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4403 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4404 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4405 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4406 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4407 tags from messages in a thread.
4414 indent-tabs-mode: nil