1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
8 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
9 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
11 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
16 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
18 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
19 ===========================
24 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
27 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
30 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
31 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
36 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
38 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
39 ===========================
44 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
50 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
55 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
60 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
65 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
66 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
68 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
69 ===========================
74 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
75 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
76 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
78 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
79 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
80 database in a pre-new hook.
82 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
83 default worked only in "notmuch config".
88 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
89 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
91 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
92 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
93 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
95 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
96 =========================
101 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
102 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
103 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
104 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
105 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
106 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
107 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
108 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
109 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
110 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
111 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
116 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
117 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
119 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
120 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
121 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
122 - `notmuch_config_get`
124 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
125 now exposed (and generalized).
127 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
128 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
129 session has been fixed.
131 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
132 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
137 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
138 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
140 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
141 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
146 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
147 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
148 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
149 when prompting for senders.
151 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
152 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
155 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
157 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
159 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
160 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
161 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
162 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
163 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
164 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
165 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
167 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
168 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
170 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
171 you should change it to:
172 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
174 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
175 ===========================
180 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
185 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
187 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
188 ===========================
193 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
198 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
203 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
205 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
206 ===========================
211 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
212 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
214 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
215 ===========================
220 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
225 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
226 with a C++ header for some compilers.
228 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
230 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
231 =========================
236 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
237 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
238 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
240 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
242 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
244 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
246 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
249 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
251 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
252 search, show and tree mode)
254 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
257 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
260 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
261 always be newest first.
266 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
267 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
268 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
274 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
275 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
276 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
277 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
279 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
280 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
281 non-status providing versions.
283 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
284 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
286 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
287 promised in the documentation.
292 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
293 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
294 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
299 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
300 development version).
305 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
310 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
312 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
313 =========================
318 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
319 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
320 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
323 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
329 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
330 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
331 notmuch-properties(7)).
336 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
337 has protected headers (see
338 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
339 notmuch-properties(7)).
344 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
346 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
347 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
353 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
356 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
357 ===========================
362 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
364 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
369 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
371 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
372 ===========================
377 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
378 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
380 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
381 ===========================
386 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
388 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
389 =========================
394 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
395 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
398 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
399 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
400 the set of headers to be indexed.
402 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
405 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
406 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
407 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
410 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
411 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
412 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
414 Command Line Interface
415 ----------------------
417 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
420 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
422 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
423 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
424 more details about what is included there. This status includes
425 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
430 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
431 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
433 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
435 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
437 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
439 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
441 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
444 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
446 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
447 and may be removed in a future release.
449 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
455 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
457 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
458 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
463 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
464 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
465 cryptography support.
470 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
471 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
472 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
474 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
475 ===========================
477 Command line interface
478 ----------------------
480 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
481 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
483 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
484 ===========================
489 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
490 by message properties.
495 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
497 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
498 ===========================
503 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
508 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
509 now needed to build this documentation.
511 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
512 ===========================
517 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
518 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
520 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
521 =========================
528 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
529 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
530 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
531 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
532 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
535 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
537 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
538 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
539 correct encoding for such messages.
541 Command Line Interface
542 ----------------------
544 Support relative database paths
546 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
547 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
548 to $HOME of the invoking user.
553 Improve stderr handling
555 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
556 needed on e.g. macOS.
558 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
560 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
565 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
566 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
572 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
573 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
579 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
580 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
583 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
584 =========================
589 Add support for thread:{} queries
591 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
592 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
593 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
595 Command Line Interface
596 ----------------------
598 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
600 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
602 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
604 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
605 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
606 does not have to be available during message receipt.
611 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
617 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
618 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
620 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
621 ===========================
626 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
628 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
629 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
630 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
632 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
634 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
635 related abort in `notmuch show`.
637 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
638 ===========================
643 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
644 better late than never.
647 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
648 =========================
650 Command Line Interface
651 ----------------------
653 Support for re-indexing existing messages
655 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
656 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
657 change the way specific messages are indexed.
659 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
660 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
661 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
663 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
665 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
667 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
669 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
670 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
671 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
672 the setting of `new.tags`.
674 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
676 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
678 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
680 This inserts into the top level folder.
682 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
684 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
686 New option --output=address for notmuch address
688 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
690 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
692 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
693 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
694 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
696 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
701 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
703 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
704 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
705 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
706 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
707 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
708 config set index.decrypt true".
710 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
711 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
712 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
713 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
714 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
715 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
716 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
717 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
719 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
720 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
721 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
722 this feature without considering the security of your index.
727 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
729 Use make-process when available
731 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
732 notmuch command without using temporary files.
737 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
739 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
740 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
741 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
742 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
744 New functions to count files
746 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
747 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
749 New function to remove properties
751 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
752 drop all properties with a common pattern:
753 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
755 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
757 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
758 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
759 possibility of NULL was not documented.
761 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
763 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
764 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
765 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
766 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
767 operator may decide to change from message to message.
774 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
775 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
776 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
782 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
784 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
785 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
787 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
789 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
791 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
793 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
798 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
799 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
801 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
802 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
803 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
804 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
805 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
806 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
811 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
813 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
814 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
815 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
816 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
818 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
819 ===========================
824 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
825 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
828 Command Line Interface
829 ----------------------
831 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
832 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
835 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
836 ===========================
838 Command Line Interface
839 ----------------------
841 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
842 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
847 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
850 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
851 ===========================
856 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
859 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
860 =========================
865 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
867 Skip HTML tags when indexing
869 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
871 Command Line Interface
872 ----------------------
874 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
876 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
881 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
883 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
884 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
887 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
892 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
894 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
895 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
897 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
899 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
900 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
903 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
905 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
907 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
909 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
910 ===========================
912 Command Line Interface
913 ----------------------
915 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
920 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
922 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
923 ===========================
928 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
930 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
931 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
934 Command Line Interface
935 ----------------------
937 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
939 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
941 Fix bug in dump header
943 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
944 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
945 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
950 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
952 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
953 =========================
958 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
960 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
963 Command Line Interface
964 ----------------------
966 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
968 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
969 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
970 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
972 New default output format to 3
974 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
975 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
976 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
977 default format changes.
982 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
984 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
985 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
986 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
987 or tree view to resume.
989 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
990 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
991 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
994 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
995 they were when you postponed in the final message.
999 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1000 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1001 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1002 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1003 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1007 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1008 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1009 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1010 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1011 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1012 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1016 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1017 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1019 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1021 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1022 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1023 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1024 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1025 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1026 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1027 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1028 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1031 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1033 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1034 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1035 only tagged the current thread.)
1037 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1039 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1040 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1041 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1043 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1045 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1046 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1047 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1048 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1049 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1050 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1051 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1053 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1055 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1056 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1057 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1062 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1064 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1067 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1069 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1072 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1073 ===========================
1078 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1080 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1081 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1082 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1085 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1086 ===========================
1088 Command Line Interface
1089 ----------------------
1091 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1096 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1098 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1099 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1100 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1102 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1103 ===========================
1108 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1109 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1111 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1112 ===========================
1114 Command Line Interface
1115 ----------------------
1117 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1119 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1120 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1121 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1126 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1128 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1129 ===========================
1131 Command Line Interface
1132 ----------------------
1134 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1139 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1141 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1142 ===========================
1147 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1149 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1150 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1151 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1153 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1155 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1157 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1158 ===========================
1163 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1165 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1170 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1172 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1173 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1174 the original colours.
1176 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1177 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1179 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1181 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1182 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1183 bug, and hence the test.
1185 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1186 =========================
1188 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1189 ---------------------
1191 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1193 Support for single argument date: queries
1195 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1197 Support for blocking opens
1199 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1200 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1202 Support for named queries
1204 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1205 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1206 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1211 Message property API
1213 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1214 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1215 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1216 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1218 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1220 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1225 Support for compile time options
1227 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1228 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1231 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1233 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1234 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1235 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1236 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1237 scripts to ignore it.
1242 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1244 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1245 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1246 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1248 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1249 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1250 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1251 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1252 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1253 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1254 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1256 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1257 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1260 Make internal address completion customizable
1262 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1263 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1264 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1265 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1268 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1270 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1271 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1272 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1273 completion for the current buffer.
1275 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1276 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1277 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1281 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1282 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1283 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1284 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1285 will be added instead.
1287 Face customization is easier
1289 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1290 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1291 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1292 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1294 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1299 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1304 Go bindings moved to contrib
1306 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1308 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1310 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1311 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1313 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1315 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1316 ===========================
1323 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1324 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1326 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1328 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1330 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1331 ===========================
1336 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1338 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1343 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1348 Use `env` to locate perl.
1353 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1355 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1357 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1359 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1361 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1362 =========================
1369 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1370 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1372 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1374 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1375 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1376 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1381 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1382 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1383 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1385 Command Line Interface
1386 ----------------------
1388 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1390 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1395 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1400 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1402 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1403 parts are now included in replies.
1405 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1406 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1407 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1408 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1410 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1412 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1414 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1416 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1417 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1418 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1419 forwards only the current message.
1421 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1423 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1424 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1425 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1426 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1427 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1428 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1429 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1430 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1433 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1434 longer generate empty buffers
1436 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1437 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1438 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1439 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1440 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1442 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1444 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1447 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1449 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1452 Address completion improvements
1454 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1455 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1456 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1457 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1458 interactive address completion.
1460 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1462 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1463 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1464 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1469 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1470 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1471 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1477 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1478 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1479 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1480 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1481 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1482 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1484 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1485 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1486 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1487 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1488 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1489 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1491 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1492 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1494 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1495 =========================
1500 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1503 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1505 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1506 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1507 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1509 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1510 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1512 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1513 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1514 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1516 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1518 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1519 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1520 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1521 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1522 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1523 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1528 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1529 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1532 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1533 option to configure.
1535 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1537 Command Line Interface
1538 ----------------------
1540 Database revision tracking
1542 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1543 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1544 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1545 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1547 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1549 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1550 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1551 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1552 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1553 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1554 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1555 manual page for further information.
1560 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1562 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1563 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1565 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1567 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1568 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1569 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1571 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1573 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1575 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1576 customization as well.
1578 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1580 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1582 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1584 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1586 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1587 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1588 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1589 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1591 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1593 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1594 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1595 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1596 this variable to 10000.
1601 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1602 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1604 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1606 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1607 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1608 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1609 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1610 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1611 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1612 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1613 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1614 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1617 Database revision tracking
1619 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1620 query parser and the new function
1621 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1623 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1625 Deprecated functions
1627 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1628 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1629 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1630 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1635 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1637 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1638 ===========================
1643 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1645 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1646 ===========================
1651 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1653 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1654 =========================
1656 Command-Line Interface
1657 ----------------------
1659 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1661 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1662 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1663 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1665 Path to gpg is now configurable
1667 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1668 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1673 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1675 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1680 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1685 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1690 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1692 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1693 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1695 New error logging facility
1697 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1698 output formerly printed to stderr.
1700 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1702 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1704 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1706 Fix for rounding of seconds
1711 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1713 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1714 documentation has been removed.
1716 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1718 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1719 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1724 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1725 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1726 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1731 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1732 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1733 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1734 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1735 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1736 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1739 git checkout config origin/config
1741 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1743 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1744 =========================
1749 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1750 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1751 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1752 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1753 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1754 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1755 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1757 Command-Line Interface
1758 ----------------------
1760 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1762 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1763 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1764 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1765 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1766 script callers should still check the return value.
1768 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1770 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1771 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1772 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1773 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1774 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1775 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1776 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1778 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1780 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1781 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1782 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1784 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1786 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1787 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1788 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1789 currently unmaintained.
1791 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1793 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1794 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1795 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1796 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1798 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1800 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1801 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1802 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1803 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1804 count of duplicate addresses.
1809 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1811 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1812 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1813 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1816 Improved handling of the unread tag
1818 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1819 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1820 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1821 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1822 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1823 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1824 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1826 Expanded default saved search settings
1828 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1829 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1831 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1833 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1834 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1835 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1837 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1839 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1840 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1841 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1842 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1843 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1844 the variable for details.
1849 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1851 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1852 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1853 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1854 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1856 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1858 Previously, library users were required to call
1859 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1860 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1861 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1862 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1863 too out of date for that API.
1865 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1867 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1868 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1869 atomic section will be aborted.
1871 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1872 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1874 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1876 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1877 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1878 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1879 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1880 messages into the same thread.
1885 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1886 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1887 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1888 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1889 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1890 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1895 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1896 from the config file. Use something like:
1900 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1901 "footer": "</body></html>",
1910 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1915 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1916 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1917 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1919 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1920 ===========================
1925 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1927 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1929 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1931 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1932 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1934 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1936 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1939 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1940 ===========================
1942 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1947 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1949 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1951 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1953 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1955 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1961 Use --quick when starting emacs
1963 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1965 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1967 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1969 Command-Line Interface
1970 ----------------------
1972 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1973 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1978 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1980 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1981 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1983 Fix for phrase indexing
1985 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1986 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1987 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1992 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1994 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1995 unintentionally removed.
1997 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1998 =========================
2003 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2004 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2005 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2006 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2007 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2008 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2009 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2010 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2011 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2017 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2019 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2020 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2021 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2022 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2023 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2024 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2025 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2026 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2028 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2030 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2031 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2032 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2033 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2036 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2038 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2039 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2040 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2041 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2042 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2043 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2044 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2049 Notmuch database upgrade
2051 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2052 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2053 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2054 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2055 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2056 released version of Notmuch before now.
2058 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2060 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2061 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2062 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2063 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2065 Message header parsing changes
2067 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2068 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2069 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2070 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2071 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2072 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2074 Command-Line Interface
2075 ----------------------
2077 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2079 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2081 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2083 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2085 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2087 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2088 user does not want it.
2090 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2092 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2093 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2094 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2095 support formatted output.
2097 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2099 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2100 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2101 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2109 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2110 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2111 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2112 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2113 `~/.emacs` with these.
2115 Changed format for saved searches
2117 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2118 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2119 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2120 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2123 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2124 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2125 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2126 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2128 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2129 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2130 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2132 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2133 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2134 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2135 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2136 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2138 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2140 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2141 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2142 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2144 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2146 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2147 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2148 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2149 message had been unread).
2151 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2152 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2153 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2154 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2156 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2157 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2158 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2160 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2161 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2162 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2163 to tags already present.
2167 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2168 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2169 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2170 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2171 these differ from each other.
2172 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2174 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2176 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2177 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2178 for these Emacs versions.
2180 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2182 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2183 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2185 Bug fixes for sender identities
2187 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2188 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2189 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2191 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2193 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2194 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2195 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2196 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2198 Reply pushes mark before signature
2200 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2201 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2202 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2204 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2206 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2207 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2213 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2214 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2216 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2217 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2218 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2219 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2221 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2222 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2223 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2224 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2225 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2227 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2229 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2230 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2232 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2233 =========================
2235 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2236 ---------------------------------------
2238 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2239 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2240 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2241 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2242 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2243 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2244 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2248 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2249 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2251 Command-Line Interface
2252 ----------------------
2254 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2256 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2257 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2258 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2259 print for each message.
2261 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2262 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2263 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2264 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2266 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2268 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2269 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2270 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2272 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2274 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2275 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2276 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2277 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2279 `notmuch compact` command
2281 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2282 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2283 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2284 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2285 move the compacted database into place.
2290 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2292 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2293 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2294 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2295 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2296 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2297 and multiple threads.
2299 Using `notmuch-tree`
2301 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2303 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2304 search, show and tree mode itself)
2306 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2309 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2310 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2312 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2314 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2315 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2316 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2317 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2318 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2319 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2320 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2322 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2324 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2325 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2326 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2327 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2328 thread when the search was performed.
2330 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2332 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2333 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2334 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2336 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2338 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2339 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2342 Built-in help improvements
2344 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2345 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2346 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2348 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2350 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2351 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2352 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2354 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2356 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2357 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2359 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2361 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2362 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2363 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2364 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2366 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2368 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2369 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2370 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2371 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2373 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2375 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2376 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2377 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2379 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2381 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2382 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2383 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2385 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2387 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2388 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2389 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2390 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2391 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2393 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2395 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2396 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2397 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2398 the body part of the message.
2403 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2404 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2405 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2407 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2408 =========================
2410 Command-Line Interface
2411 ----------------------
2413 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2415 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2416 folder and notmuch index.
2418 `notmuch count --batch` option
2420 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2421 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2423 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2425 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2426 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2427 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2430 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2432 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2433 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2434 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2435 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2436 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2439 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2441 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2442 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2444 Top level option to specify configuration file
2446 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2447 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2449 Bash command-line completion
2451 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2452 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2453 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2454 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2455 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2456 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2457 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2458 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2459 bash-completion package.
2461 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2466 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2468 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2469 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2470 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2471 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2472 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2473 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2474 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2475 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2477 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2479 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2480 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2481 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2483 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2485 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2486 previous thread in the search results.
2488 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2490 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2491 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2493 Faster search and show
2495 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2496 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2497 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2498 threads should show faster.
2502 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2503 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2504 in question was now removed from this release.
2509 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2510 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2515 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2517 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2518 ===========================
2523 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2525 Internal test framework changes
2526 -------------------------------
2528 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2529 being unimplemented.
2531 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2532 ===========================
2534 Internal test framework changes
2535 -------------------------------
2537 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2538 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2540 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2541 =========================
2546 Date range search support
2548 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2549 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2550 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2551 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2552 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2555 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2557 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2558 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2559 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2560 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2561 but may be removed in a future release.
2563 Command-Line Interface
2564 ----------------------
2566 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2568 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2569 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2571 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2573 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2574 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2575 officially deprecated.
2577 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2579 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2580 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2581 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2583 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2585 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2586 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2589 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2590 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2591 dump/restore format.
2593 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2595 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2596 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2597 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2599 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2601 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2602 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2603 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2605 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2607 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2608 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2609 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2610 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2615 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2617 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2618 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2619 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2620 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2622 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2624 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2625 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2626 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2627 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2628 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2629 the behavior of this, see
2630 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2631 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2633 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2634 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2635 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2637 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2639 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2640 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2643 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2645 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2646 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2647 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2648 simply displayed in place of the message.
2650 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2652 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2653 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2655 Improved text/calendar content handling
2657 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2658 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2659 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2660 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2662 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2664 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2665 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2666 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2667 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2669 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2671 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2672 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2673 for HTML email containing images.
2675 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2677 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2679 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2681 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2684 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2686 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2687 the point where it was.
2689 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2691 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2692 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2693 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2694 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2695 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2697 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2699 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2700 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2701 thread instead of the message id.
2703 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2704 -----------------------------
2706 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2707 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2708 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2709 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2710 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2711 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2712 further details and installation.
2717 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2719 Internal test framework changes
2720 -------------------------------
2722 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2724 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2725 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2726 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2727 can result in buggy behavior.
2729 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2730 =========================
2735 Maildir tag synchronization
2737 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2738 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2739 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2740 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2741 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2742 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2745 Command-Line Interface
2746 ----------------------
2748 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2749 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2750 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2751 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2752 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2758 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2760 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2762 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2763 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2764 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2766 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2768 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2769 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2770 span multiple lines.
2772 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2774 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2775 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2776 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2777 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2778 inside the result or message.
2780 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2782 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2783 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2785 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2786 user-specified formatting
2788 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2789 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2790 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2791 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2792 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2794 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2795 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2797 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2798 ===========================
2803 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2804 compilation error for this contrib package.
2806 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2807 ===========================
2812 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2814 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2815 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2816 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2817 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2819 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2820 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2823 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2824 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2825 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2826 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2829 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2831 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2834 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2835 =========================
2837 Command-Line Interface
2838 ----------------------
2842 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2843 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2844 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2845 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2847 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2848 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2849 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2850 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2854 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2855 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2857 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2858 tag in your query, for example:
2860 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2862 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2863 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2865 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2866 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2868 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2870 Raw show format changes
2872 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2873 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2874 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2875 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2876 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2877 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2878 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2879 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2881 Listing configuration items
2883 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2889 Changes to tagging interface
2891 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2892 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2893 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2894 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2895 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2896 for more information.
2898 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2899 may need to update in custom configurations.
2901 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2903 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2904 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2905 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2906 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2909 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2910 -----------------------------
2912 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2913 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2914 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2915 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2916 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2917 contrib/ from now on.
2922 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2923 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2925 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2926 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2928 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2929 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2930 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2932 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2933 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2935 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2936 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2937 returning the new database object or directory object.
2944 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2945 compatible with go 1.
2947 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2948 =========================
2950 Command-Line Interface
2951 ----------------------
2955 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2956 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2957 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2958 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2960 Mail store folder/file ignore
2962 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2963 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2964 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2966 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2967 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2969 Unified help and manual pages
2971 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2972 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2975 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2977 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2978 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2986 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2987 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2988 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2989 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2991 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2993 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2994 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2996 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2999 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3000 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3001 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3003 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3005 should be changed to:
3007 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3009 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3011 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3012 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3014 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3016 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3017 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3018 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3019 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3020 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3021 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3025 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3026 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3027 of Mailing List Archives.
3029 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3031 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3032 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3035 Show view archiving key binding changes
3037 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3038 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3039 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3040 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3041 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3044 Support text/calendar MIME type
3046 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3049 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3051 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3052 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3053 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3054 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3056 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3058 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3059 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3060 messages blue by default in the search view.
3064 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3065 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3072 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3075 Python bindings changes
3076 -----------------------
3078 Python 3.2 compatibility
3080 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3082 Added missing unicode conversions
3084 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3085 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3086 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3091 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3093 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3094 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3095 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3096 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3097 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3099 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3100 ===========================
3105 Fix error handling in python bindings
3107 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3108 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3109 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3110 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3112 Quote MML tags in replies
3114 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3115 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3116 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3117 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3118 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3119 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3120 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3121 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3123 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3124 =========================
3126 Command-Line Interface
3127 ----------------------
3131 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3132 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3133 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3134 importing new messages into the database.
3136 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3138 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3139 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3140 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3145 Automatic tag query optimization
3147 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3148 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3149 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3151 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3153 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3154 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3155 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3160 Reduction of memory leaks
3162 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3163 and fixed in this release.
3170 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3171 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3172 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3175 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3177 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3178 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3179 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3182 Improvements in saved search management
3184 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3185 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3186 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3188 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3190 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3191 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3192 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3194 New face for crypto parts headers
3196 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3197 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3198 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3201 Use space as default thousands separator
3203 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3204 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3205 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3207 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3208 buttonized id: links
3210 New function notmuch-show-advance
3212 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3213 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3214 be bound to SPC with:
3216 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3218 Various performance improvements
3223 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3224 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3227 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3228 ===========================
3233 Fix crash in python bindings
3235 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3236 for some, but not all users.
3238 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3239 ===========================
3244 Fix `--help` argument
3246 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3247 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3248 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3250 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3251 =========================
3253 New build and testing features
3254 ------------------------------
3256 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3257 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3258 prerequisites is improved.
3260 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3262 New command-line features
3263 -------------------------
3265 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3267 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3268 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3271 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3273 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3274 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3275 favour of using stdout.
3277 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3279 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3280 limit the number of results shown.
3282 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3284 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3285 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3288 New emacs UI features
3289 ---------------------
3291 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3293 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3294 starting with "tag:".
3296 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3298 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3299 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3301 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3303 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3305 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3307 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3308 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3313 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3315 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3317 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3318 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3319 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3320 requires a database rebuild:
3322 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3323 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3325 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3327 New collection of add-on tools
3328 ------------------------------
3330 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3331 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3332 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3335 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3337 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3338 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3339 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3341 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3342 ========================
3344 New, general features
3345 ---------------------
3347 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3349 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3350 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3351 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3352 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3353 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3360 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3361 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3363 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3367 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3368 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3369 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3372 Python bindings changes
3373 -----------------------
3375 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3377 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3378 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3379 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3380 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3381 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3382 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3384 Ruby bindings changes
3385 ---------------------
3387 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3388 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3389 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3390 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3395 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3397 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3398 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3400 Reply formatting cleanup
3401 ------------------------
3403 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3404 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3406 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3407 ========================
3409 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3411 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3412 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3413 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3414 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3417 Improved Build system portability
3419 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3420 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3421 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3423 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3425 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3427 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3429 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3430 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3431 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3433 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3434 ========================
3436 Vim interface improvements
3437 --------------------------
3439 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3441 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3442 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3443 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3444 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3445 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3447 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3449 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3450 * fix compose temp file name
3452 Python Bindings changes
3453 -----------------------
3455 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3457 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3458 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3460 Build-System improvements
3461 -------------------------
3463 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3465 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3468 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3469 ==========================
3474 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3476 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3477 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3479 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3480 =======================
3482 New, general features
3483 ---------------------
3485 Folder-based searching
3487 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3488 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3489 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3493 For example, one might use things such as:
3499 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3500 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3502 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3503 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3504 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3505 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3507 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3508 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3509 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3512 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3513 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3515 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3517 Support for PGP/MIME
3519 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3520 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3521 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3523 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3525 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3526 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3528 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3529 notmuch will receive these tags.
3531 New command-line features
3532 -------------------------
3534 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3536 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3537 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3539 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3541 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3542 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3543 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3545 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3547 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3548 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3549 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3550 which parts a signature part applies).
3552 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3554 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3555 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3556 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3557 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3558 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3561 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3563 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3564 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3565 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3566 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3567 by translating it internally to the new call.
3569 Performance improvements
3570 ------------------------
3572 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3574 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3575 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3576 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3578 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3579 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3581 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3583 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3584 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3585 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3587 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3588 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3589 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3590 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3592 Faster initial indexing
3594 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3595 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3596 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3598 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3600 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3601 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3602 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3603 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3605 New emacs-interface features
3606 ----------------------------
3608 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3610 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3611 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3612 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3613 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3614 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3615 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3617 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3619 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3620 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3621 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3622 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3624 User-selectable From address
3626 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3627 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3628 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3629 will prompt for the from address to use.
3631 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3632 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3633 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3635 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3636 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3637 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3640 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3642 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3643 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3645 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3647 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3649 ----- Original Message -----
3651 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3652 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3653 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3654 citations work much like conventional citations.
3656 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3658 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3659 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3660 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3661 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3662 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3664 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3665 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3667 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3669 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3670 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3671 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3673 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3675 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3676 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3677 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3678 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3679 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3681 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3683 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3686 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3688 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3690 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3692 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3695 Vim interface improvements
3696 --------------------------
3698 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3700 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3701 * Implementing archive in show view
3702 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3703 * Add delete commands
3706 Bindings improvements
3707 ---------------------
3709 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3711 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3712 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3714 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3716 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3720 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3721 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3722 `list(Messages)` works now
3723 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3725 These allow, for example:
3727 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3729 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3731 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3737 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3739 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3742 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3744 New build-system features
3745 -------------------------
3747 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3749 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3750 the configure script from some other directory:
3757 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3759 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3760 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3761 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3762 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3763 manual invocation of configure.
3765 New test-suite feature
3766 ----------------------
3768 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3770 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3771 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3772 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3773 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3774 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3777 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3779 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3780 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3781 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3782 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3783 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3784 are updated to take advantage of this.
3786 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3788 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3789 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3790 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3791 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3797 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3799 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3800 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3801 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3803 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3805 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3807 to:user@elsewhere.com
3809 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3811 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3813 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3815 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3816 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3817 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3820 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3821 from the Received headers in some cases
3823 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3824 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3826 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3828 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3830 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3832 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3833 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3834 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3836 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3837 -------------------------
3839 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3841 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3842 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3843 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3845 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3847 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3848 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3849 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3852 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3854 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3855 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3856 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3857 fixed to avoid this bug.
3859 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3861 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3862 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3864 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3865 ========================
3867 New, general features
3868 ---------------------
3870 Maildir-flag synchronization
3872 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3873 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3882 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3884 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3885 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3886 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3887 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3889 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3890 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3891 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3892 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3895 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3897 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3898 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3899 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3901 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3902 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3904 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3905 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3907 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3908 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3909 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3911 New library features
3912 --------------------
3914 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3916 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3917 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3918 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3919 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3921 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3922 message with the new function:
3924 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3926 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3927 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3928 over all available filenames for a given message.
3930 New command-line features
3931 -------------------------
3933 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3935 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3936 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3937 access to the mail store itself.
3939 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3940 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3941 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3942 name of a script containing:
3944 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3946 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3947 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3953 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3955 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3957 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3959 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3960 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3961 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3962 now produces nothing).
3964 Emacs interface improvements
3965 ----------------------------
3967 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3969 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3971 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3973 Display current thread subject in a header line
3975 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3977 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3979 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3980 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3981 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3982 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3983 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3984 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3985 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3987 Vim interface improvements
3988 --------------------------
3990 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3992 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3993 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3999 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4001 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4002 ========================
4004 New command-line features
4005 -------------------------
4007 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4009 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4010 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4011 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4013 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4014 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4015 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4016 scripts. For example:
4018 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4019 <operations-on> "$file"
4022 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4024 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4025 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4026 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4027 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4028 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4029 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4031 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4033 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4034 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4035 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4036 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4038 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4040 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4041 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4042 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4043 default rather than Bcc.
4045 New library features
4046 --------------------
4048 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4050 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4051 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4056 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4058 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4059 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4060 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4061 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4062 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4063 notmuch customize interface.
4065 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4067 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4068 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4069 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4070 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4072 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4074 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4075 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4076 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4077 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4079 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4081 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4082 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4083 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4084 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4085 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4086 notmuch customize interface.
4088 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4090 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4091 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4092 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4093 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4094 notmuch customize interface.
4096 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4098 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4099 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4100 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4101 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4104 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4106 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4107 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4108 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4111 New build-system features
4112 -------------------------
4114 Various portability fixes have been applied
4116 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4117 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4118 more portable than ever before.
4120 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4122 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4123 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4124 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4126 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4127 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4128 automatically run ldconfig.
4130 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4131 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4132 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4134 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4135 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4136 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4137 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4139 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4141 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4142 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4143 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4144 used in the resulting Makefile.
4146 New test-suite features
4147 -----------------------
4149 New modularization of test suite
4151 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4152 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4153 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4154 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4155 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4156 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4157 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4158 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4160 New testing of emacs interface
4162 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4163 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4164 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4165 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4166 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4167 database via the FCC setting.
4172 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4174 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4175 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4176 persistent error of the form:
4178 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4180 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4181 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4183 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4185 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4186 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4187 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4189 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4191 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4192 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4193 parsing the notmuch results).
4195 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4197 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4200 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4201 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4202 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4207 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4209 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4210 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4211 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4212 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4213 the emacs interface.
4215 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4217 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4218 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4219 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4221 Python-binding fixes
4222 --------------------
4224 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4226 Debian-specific fixes
4227 ---------------------
4229 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4231 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4232 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4233 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4236 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4237 ==========================
4242 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4244 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4245 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4246 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4247 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4249 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4251 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4252 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4253 want notmuch to crash.
4258 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4260 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4261 directory does not exist
4266 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4268 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4269 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4271 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4272 ========================
4274 New command-line features
4275 -------------------------
4277 User-configurable tags for new messages
4279 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4280 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4281 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4282 to specify this value.
4284 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4286 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4287 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4288 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4290 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4292 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4293 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4295 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4297 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4298 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4299 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4300 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4301 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4304 Indication of author names that match a search
4306 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4307 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4308 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4309 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4310 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4311 messages in the thread are listed first.
4313 New: Python bindings
4314 --------------------
4316 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4317 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4318 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4319 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4321 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4322 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4323 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4326 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4327 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4328 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4330 Emacs interface improvements
4331 ----------------------------
4333 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4335 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4336 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4337 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4338 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4339 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4340 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4341 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4342 but without any of the disadvantages).
4344 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4345 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4346 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4349 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4350 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4351 instead running something like:
4353 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4355 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4356 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4357 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4360 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4362 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4363 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4364 tweaked by the user.
4366 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4367 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4368 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4371 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4372 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4373 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4376 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4378 This support currently relies on an external program,
4379 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4380 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4381 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4382 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4383 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4386 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4387 notmuch) is available via:
4389 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4391 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4392 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4393 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4395 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4397 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4398 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4399 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4400 making this automatic in a future release.
4402 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4404 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4405 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4406 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4407 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4408 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4409 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4412 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4414 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4415 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4416 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4418 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4420 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4421 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4422 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4424 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4425 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4426 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4427 other representation.
4429 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4430 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4433 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4435 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4436 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4437 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4439 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4440 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4441 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4443 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4445 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4446 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4447 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4448 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4449 to display the search result.
4451 More flexible handling of header visibility
4453 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4454 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4455 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4456 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4457 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4458 with the 'h' keybinding.
4460 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4461 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4462 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4464 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4466 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4468 Customizable formatting of search results
4470 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4471 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4472 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4474 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4476 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4478 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4483 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4485 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4486 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4487 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4488 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4494 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4496 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4497 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4499 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4501 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4502 accept are now all accepted.
4507 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4509 Better display of output from failed tests
4511 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4512 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4514 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4515 ========================
4517 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4518 detailed release notes this time!
4520 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4521 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4523 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4524 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4525 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4526 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4533 Better guessing of From: header
4535 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4536 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4537 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4538 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4539 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4542 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4544 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4545 guaranteed to match all messages.
4547 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4549 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4550 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4551 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4552 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4553 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4556 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4559 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4560 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4561 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4562 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4567 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4569 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4570 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4571 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4572 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4574 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4576 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4578 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4579 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4580 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4582 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4584 Previously, the user might see:
4586 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4590 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4592 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4593 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4594 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4595 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4597 Emacs client features
4598 ---------------------
4600 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4602 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4603 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4604 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4605 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4606 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4608 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4611 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4612 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4613 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4614 search with the '*' binding.
4616 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4618 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4619 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4622 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4624 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4625 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4626 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4628 Build-system features
4629 ---------------------
4631 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4633 Add support to configure for many standard options
4635 We include actual support for:
4637 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4639 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4641 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4642 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4644 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4645 separate "make install-emacs"
4647 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4649 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4650 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4651 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4653 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4656 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4657 ========================
4659 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4661 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4662 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4664 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4665 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4666 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4667 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4668 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4669 tags from messages in a thread.
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