1 Notmuch 0.34 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
8 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library.
10 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
11 ===========================
16 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
18 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
19 ===========================
24 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
25 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
28 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
29 =========================
34 Correct documentation about transactions.
36 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
37 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
39 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
44 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
50 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
51 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
52 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
54 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
56 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
58 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
60 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
62 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
64 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
67 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
72 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
73 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
74 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
75 split, following an old library API change.
80 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
85 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
87 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
89 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
90 ===========================
95 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
98 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
101 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
102 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
107 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
109 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
110 ===========================
115 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
121 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
126 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
131 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
136 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
137 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
139 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
140 ===========================
145 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
146 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
147 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
149 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
150 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
151 database in a pre-new hook.
153 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
154 default worked only in "notmuch config".
159 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
160 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
162 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
163 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
164 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
166 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
167 =========================
172 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
173 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
174 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
175 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
176 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
177 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
178 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
179 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
180 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
181 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
182 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
187 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
188 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
190 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
191 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
192 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
193 - `notmuch_config_get`
195 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
196 now exposed (and generalized).
198 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
199 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
200 session has been fixed.
202 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
203 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
208 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
209 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
211 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
212 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
217 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
218 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
219 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
220 when prompting for senders.
222 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
223 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
226 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
228 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
230 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
231 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
232 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
233 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
234 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
235 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
236 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
238 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
239 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
241 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
242 you should change it to:
243 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
245 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
246 ===========================
251 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
256 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
258 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
259 ===========================
264 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
269 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
274 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
276 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
277 ===========================
282 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
283 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
285 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
286 ===========================
291 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
296 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
297 with a C++ header for some compilers.
299 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
301 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
302 =========================
307 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
308 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
309 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
311 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
313 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
315 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
317 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
320 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
322 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
323 search, show and tree mode)
325 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
328 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
331 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
332 always be newest first.
337 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
338 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
339 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
345 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
346 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
347 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
348 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
350 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
351 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
352 non-status providing versions.
354 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
355 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
357 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
358 promised in the documentation.
363 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
364 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
365 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
370 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
371 development version).
376 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
381 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
383 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
384 =========================
389 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
390 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
391 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
394 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
400 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
401 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
402 notmuch-properties(7)).
407 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
408 has protected headers (see
409 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
410 notmuch-properties(7)).
415 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
417 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
418 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
424 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
427 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
428 ===========================
433 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
435 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
440 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
442 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
443 ===========================
448 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
449 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
451 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
452 ===========================
457 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
459 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
460 =========================
465 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
466 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
469 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
470 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
471 the set of headers to be indexed.
473 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
476 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
477 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
478 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
481 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
482 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
483 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
485 Command Line Interface
486 ----------------------
488 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
491 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
493 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
494 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
495 more details about what is included there. This status includes
496 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
501 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
502 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
504 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
506 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
508 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
510 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
512 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
515 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
517 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
518 and may be removed in a future release.
520 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
526 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
528 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
529 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
534 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
535 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
536 cryptography support.
541 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
542 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
543 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
545 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
546 ===========================
548 Command line interface
549 ----------------------
551 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
552 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
554 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
555 ===========================
560 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
561 by message properties.
566 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
568 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
569 ===========================
574 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
579 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
580 now needed to build this documentation.
582 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
583 ===========================
588 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
589 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
591 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
592 =========================
599 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
600 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
601 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
602 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
603 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
606 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
608 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
609 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
610 correct encoding for such messages.
612 Command Line Interface
613 ----------------------
615 Support relative database paths
617 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
618 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
619 to $HOME of the invoking user.
624 Improve stderr handling
626 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
627 needed on e.g. macOS.
629 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
631 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
636 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
637 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
643 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
644 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
650 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
651 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
654 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
655 =========================
660 Add support for thread:{} queries
662 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
663 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
664 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
666 Command Line Interface
667 ----------------------
669 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
671 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
673 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
675 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
676 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
677 does not have to be available during message receipt.
682 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
688 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
689 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
691 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
692 ===========================
697 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
699 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
700 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
701 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
703 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
705 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
706 related abort in `notmuch show`.
708 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
709 ===========================
714 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
715 better late than never.
718 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
719 =========================
721 Command Line Interface
722 ----------------------
724 Support for re-indexing existing messages
726 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
727 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
728 change the way specific messages are indexed.
730 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
731 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
732 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
734 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
736 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
738 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
740 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
741 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
742 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
743 the setting of `new.tags`.
745 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
747 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
749 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
751 This inserts into the top level folder.
753 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
755 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
757 New option --output=address for notmuch address
759 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
761 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
763 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
764 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
765 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
767 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
772 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
774 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
775 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
776 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
777 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
778 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
779 config set index.decrypt true".
781 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
782 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
783 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
784 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
785 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
786 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
787 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
788 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
790 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
791 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
792 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
793 this feature without considering the security of your index.
798 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
800 Use make-process when available
802 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
803 notmuch command without using temporary files.
808 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
810 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
811 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
812 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
813 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
815 New functions to count files
817 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
818 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
820 New function to remove properties
822 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
823 drop all properties with a common pattern:
824 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
826 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
828 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
829 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
830 possibility of NULL was not documented.
832 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
834 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
835 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
836 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
837 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
838 operator may decide to change from message to message.
845 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
846 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
847 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
853 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
855 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
856 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
858 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
860 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
862 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
864 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
869 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
870 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
872 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
873 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
874 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
875 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
876 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
877 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
882 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
884 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
885 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
886 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
887 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
889 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
890 ===========================
895 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
896 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
899 Command Line Interface
900 ----------------------
902 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
903 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
906 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
907 ===========================
909 Command Line Interface
910 ----------------------
912 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
913 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
918 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
921 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
922 ===========================
927 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
930 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
931 =========================
936 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
938 Skip HTML tags when indexing
940 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
942 Command Line Interface
943 ----------------------
945 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
947 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
952 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
954 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
955 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
958 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
963 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
965 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
966 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
968 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
970 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
971 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
974 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
976 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
978 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
980 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
981 ===========================
983 Command Line Interface
984 ----------------------
986 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
991 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
993 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
994 ===========================
999 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1001 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1002 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1005 Command Line Interface
1006 ----------------------
1008 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1010 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1012 Fix bug in dump header
1014 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1015 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1016 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1021 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1023 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1024 =========================
1029 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1031 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1034 Command Line Interface
1035 ----------------------
1037 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1039 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1040 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1041 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1043 New default output format to 3
1045 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1046 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1047 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1048 default format changes.
1053 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1055 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1056 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1057 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1058 or tree view to resume.
1060 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1061 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1062 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1065 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1066 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1070 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1071 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1072 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1073 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1074 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1078 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1079 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1080 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1081 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1082 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1083 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1087 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1088 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1090 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1092 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1093 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1094 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1095 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1096 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1097 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1098 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1099 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1102 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1104 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1105 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1106 only tagged the current thread.)
1108 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1110 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1111 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1112 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1114 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1116 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1117 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1118 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1119 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1120 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1121 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1122 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1124 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1126 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1127 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1128 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1133 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1135 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1138 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1140 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1143 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1144 ===========================
1149 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1151 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1152 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1153 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1156 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1157 ===========================
1159 Command Line Interface
1160 ----------------------
1162 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1167 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1169 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1170 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1171 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1173 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1174 ===========================
1179 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1180 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1182 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1183 ===========================
1185 Command Line Interface
1186 ----------------------
1188 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1190 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1191 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1192 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1197 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1199 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1200 ===========================
1202 Command Line Interface
1203 ----------------------
1205 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1210 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1212 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1213 ===========================
1218 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1220 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1221 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1222 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1224 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1226 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1228 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1229 ===========================
1234 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1236 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1241 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1243 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1244 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1245 the original colours.
1247 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1248 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1250 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1252 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1253 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1254 bug, and hence the test.
1256 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1257 =========================
1259 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1260 ---------------------
1262 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1264 Support for single argument date: queries
1266 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1268 Support for blocking opens
1270 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1271 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1273 Support for named queries
1275 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1276 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1277 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1282 Message property API
1284 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1285 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1286 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1287 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1289 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1291 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1296 Support for compile time options
1298 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1299 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1302 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1304 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1305 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1306 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1307 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1308 scripts to ignore it.
1313 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1315 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1316 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1317 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1319 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1320 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1321 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1322 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1323 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1324 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1325 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1327 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1328 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1331 Make internal address completion customizable
1333 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1334 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1335 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1336 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1339 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1341 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1342 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1343 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1344 completion for the current buffer.
1346 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1347 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1348 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1352 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1353 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1354 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1355 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1356 will be added instead.
1358 Face customization is easier
1360 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1361 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1362 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1363 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1365 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1370 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1375 Go bindings moved to contrib
1377 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1379 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1381 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1382 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1384 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1386 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1387 ===========================
1394 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1395 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1397 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1399 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1401 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1402 ===========================
1407 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1409 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1414 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1419 Use `env` to locate perl.
1424 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1426 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1428 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1430 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1432 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1433 =========================
1440 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1441 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1443 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1445 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1446 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1447 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1452 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1453 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1454 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1456 Command Line Interface
1457 ----------------------
1459 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1461 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1466 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1471 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1473 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1474 parts are now included in replies.
1476 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1477 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1478 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1479 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1481 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1483 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1485 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1487 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1488 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1489 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1490 forwards only the current message.
1492 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1494 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1495 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1496 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1497 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1498 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1499 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1500 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1501 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1504 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1505 longer generate empty buffers
1507 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1508 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1509 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1510 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1511 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1513 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1515 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1518 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1520 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1523 Address completion improvements
1525 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1526 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1527 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1528 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1529 interactive address completion.
1531 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1533 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1534 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1535 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1540 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1541 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1542 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1548 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1549 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1550 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1551 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1552 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1553 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1555 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1556 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1557 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1558 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1559 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1560 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1562 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1563 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1565 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1566 =========================
1571 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1574 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1576 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1577 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1578 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1580 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1581 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1583 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1584 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1585 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1587 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1589 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1590 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1591 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1592 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1593 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1594 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1599 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1600 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1603 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1604 option to configure.
1606 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1608 Command Line Interface
1609 ----------------------
1611 Database revision tracking
1613 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1614 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1615 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1616 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1618 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1620 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1621 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1622 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1623 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1624 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1625 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1626 manual page for further information.
1631 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1633 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1634 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1636 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1638 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1639 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1640 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1642 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1644 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1646 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1647 customization as well.
1649 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1651 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1653 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1655 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1657 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1658 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1659 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1660 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1662 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1664 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1665 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1666 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1667 this variable to 10000.
1672 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1673 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1675 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1677 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1678 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1679 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1680 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1681 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1682 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1683 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1684 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1685 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1688 Database revision tracking
1690 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1691 query parser and the new function
1692 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1694 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1696 Deprecated functions
1698 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1699 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1700 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1701 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1706 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1708 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1709 ===========================
1714 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1716 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1717 ===========================
1722 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1724 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1725 =========================
1727 Command-Line Interface
1728 ----------------------
1730 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1732 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1733 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1734 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1736 Path to gpg is now configurable
1738 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1739 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1744 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1746 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1751 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1756 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1761 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1763 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1764 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1766 New error logging facility
1768 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1769 output formerly printed to stderr.
1771 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1773 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1775 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1777 Fix for rounding of seconds
1782 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1784 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1785 documentation has been removed.
1787 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1789 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1790 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1795 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1796 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1797 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1802 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1803 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1804 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1805 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1806 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1807 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1810 git checkout config origin/config
1812 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1814 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1815 =========================
1820 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1821 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1822 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1823 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1824 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1825 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1826 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1828 Command-Line Interface
1829 ----------------------
1831 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1833 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1834 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1835 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1836 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1837 script callers should still check the return value.
1839 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1841 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1842 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1843 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1844 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1845 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1846 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1847 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1849 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1851 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1852 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1853 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1855 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1857 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1858 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1859 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1860 currently unmaintained.
1862 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1864 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1865 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1866 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1867 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1869 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1871 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1872 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1873 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1874 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1875 count of duplicate addresses.
1880 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1882 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1883 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1884 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1887 Improved handling of the unread tag
1889 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1890 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1891 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1892 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1893 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1894 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1895 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1897 Expanded default saved search settings
1899 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1900 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1902 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1904 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1905 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1906 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1908 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1910 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1911 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1912 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1913 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1914 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1915 the variable for details.
1920 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1922 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1923 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1924 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1925 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1927 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1929 Previously, library users were required to call
1930 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1931 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1932 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1933 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1934 too out of date for that API.
1936 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1938 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1939 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1940 atomic section will be aborted.
1942 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1943 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1945 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1947 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1948 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1949 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1950 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1951 messages into the same thread.
1956 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1957 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1958 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1959 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1960 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1961 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1966 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1967 from the config file. Use something like:
1971 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1972 "footer": "</body></html>",
1981 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1986 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1987 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1988 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1990 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1991 ===========================
1996 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1998 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2000 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2002 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2003 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2005 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2007 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2010 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2011 ===========================
2013 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2018 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2020 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2022 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2024 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2026 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2032 Use --quick when starting emacs
2034 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2036 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2038 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2040 Command-Line Interface
2041 ----------------------
2043 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2044 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2049 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2051 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2052 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2054 Fix for phrase indexing
2056 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2057 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2058 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2063 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2065 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2066 unintentionally removed.
2068 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2069 =========================
2074 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2075 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2076 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2077 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2078 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2079 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2080 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2081 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2082 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2088 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2090 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2091 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2092 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2093 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2094 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2095 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2096 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2097 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2099 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2101 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2102 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2103 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2104 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2107 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2109 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2110 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2111 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2112 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2113 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2114 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2115 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2120 Notmuch database upgrade
2122 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2123 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2124 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2125 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2126 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2127 released version of Notmuch before now.
2129 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2131 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2132 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2133 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2134 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2136 Message header parsing changes
2138 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2139 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2140 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2141 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2142 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2143 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2145 Command-Line Interface
2146 ----------------------
2148 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2150 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2152 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2154 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2156 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2158 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2159 user does not want it.
2161 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2163 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2164 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2165 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2166 support formatted output.
2168 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2170 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2171 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2172 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2180 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2181 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2182 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2183 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2184 `~/.emacs` with these.
2186 Changed format for saved searches
2188 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2189 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2190 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2191 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2194 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2195 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2196 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2197 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2199 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2200 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2201 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2203 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2204 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2205 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2206 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2207 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2209 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2211 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2212 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2213 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2215 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2217 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2218 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2219 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2220 message had been unread).
2222 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2223 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2224 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2225 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2227 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2228 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2229 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2231 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2232 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2233 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2234 to tags already present.
2238 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2239 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2240 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2241 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2242 these differ from each other.
2243 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2245 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2247 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2248 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2249 for these Emacs versions.
2251 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2253 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2254 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2256 Bug fixes for sender identities
2258 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2259 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2260 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2262 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2264 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2265 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2266 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2267 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2269 Reply pushes mark before signature
2271 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2272 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2273 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2275 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2277 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2278 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2284 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2285 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2287 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2288 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2289 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2290 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2292 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2293 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2294 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2295 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2296 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2298 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2300 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2301 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2303 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2304 =========================
2306 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2307 ---------------------------------------
2309 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2310 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2311 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2312 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2313 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2314 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2315 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2319 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2320 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2322 Command-Line Interface
2323 ----------------------
2325 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2327 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2328 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2329 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2330 print for each message.
2332 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2333 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2334 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2335 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2337 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2339 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2340 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2341 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2343 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2345 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2346 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2347 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2348 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2350 `notmuch compact` command
2352 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2353 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2354 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2355 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2356 move the compacted database into place.
2361 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2363 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2364 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2365 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2366 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2367 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2368 and multiple threads.
2370 Using `notmuch-tree`
2372 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2374 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2375 search, show and tree mode itself)
2377 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2380 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2381 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2383 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2385 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2386 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2387 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2388 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2389 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2390 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2391 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2393 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2395 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2396 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2397 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2398 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2399 thread when the search was performed.
2401 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2403 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2404 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2405 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2407 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2409 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2410 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2413 Built-in help improvements
2415 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2416 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2417 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2419 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2421 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2422 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2423 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2425 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2427 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2428 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2430 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2432 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2433 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2434 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2435 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2437 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2439 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2440 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2441 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2442 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2444 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2446 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2447 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2448 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2450 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2452 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2453 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2454 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2456 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2458 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2459 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2460 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2461 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2462 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2464 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2466 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2467 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2468 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2469 the body part of the message.
2474 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2475 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2476 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2478 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2479 =========================
2481 Command-Line Interface
2482 ----------------------
2484 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2486 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2487 folder and notmuch index.
2489 `notmuch count --batch` option
2491 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2492 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2494 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2496 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2497 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2498 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2501 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2503 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2504 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2505 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2506 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2507 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2510 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2512 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2513 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2515 Top level option to specify configuration file
2517 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2518 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2520 Bash command-line completion
2522 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2523 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2524 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2525 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2526 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2527 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2528 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2529 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2530 bash-completion package.
2532 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2537 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2539 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2540 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2541 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2542 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2543 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2544 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2545 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2546 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2548 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2550 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2551 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2552 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2554 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2556 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2557 previous thread in the search results.
2559 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2561 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2562 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2564 Faster search and show
2566 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2567 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2568 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2569 threads should show faster.
2573 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2574 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2575 in question was now removed from this release.
2580 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2581 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2586 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2588 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2589 ===========================
2594 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2596 Internal test framework changes
2597 -------------------------------
2599 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2600 being unimplemented.
2602 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2603 ===========================
2605 Internal test framework changes
2606 -------------------------------
2608 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2609 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2611 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2612 =========================
2617 Date range search support
2619 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2620 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2621 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2622 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2623 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2626 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2628 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2629 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2630 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2631 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2632 but may be removed in a future release.
2634 Command-Line Interface
2635 ----------------------
2637 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2639 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2640 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2642 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2644 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2645 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2646 officially deprecated.
2648 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2650 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2651 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2652 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2654 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2656 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2657 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2660 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2661 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2662 dump/restore format.
2664 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2666 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2667 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2668 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2670 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2672 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2673 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2674 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2676 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2678 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2679 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2680 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2681 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2686 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2688 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2689 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2690 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2691 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2693 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2695 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2696 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2697 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2698 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2699 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2700 the behavior of this, see
2701 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2702 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2704 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2705 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2706 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2708 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2710 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2711 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2714 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2716 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2717 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2718 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2719 simply displayed in place of the message.
2721 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2723 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2724 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2726 Improved text/calendar content handling
2728 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2729 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2730 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2731 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2733 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2735 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2736 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2737 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2738 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2740 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2742 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2743 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2744 for HTML email containing images.
2746 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2748 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2750 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2752 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2755 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2757 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2758 the point where it was.
2760 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2762 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2763 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2764 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2765 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2766 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2768 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2770 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2771 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2772 thread instead of the message id.
2774 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2775 -----------------------------
2777 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2778 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2779 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2780 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2781 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2782 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2783 further details and installation.
2788 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2790 Internal test framework changes
2791 -------------------------------
2793 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2795 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2796 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2797 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2798 can result in buggy behavior.
2800 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2801 =========================
2806 Maildir tag synchronization
2808 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2809 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2810 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2811 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2812 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2813 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2816 Command-Line Interface
2817 ----------------------
2819 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2820 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2821 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2822 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2823 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2829 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2831 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2833 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2834 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2835 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2837 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2839 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2840 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2841 span multiple lines.
2843 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2845 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2846 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2847 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2848 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2849 inside the result or message.
2851 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2853 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2854 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2856 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2857 user-specified formatting
2859 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2860 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2861 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2862 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2863 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2865 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2866 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2868 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2869 ===========================
2874 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2875 compilation error for this contrib package.
2877 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2878 ===========================
2883 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2885 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2886 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2887 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2888 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2890 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2891 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2894 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2895 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2896 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2897 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2900 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2902 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2905 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2906 =========================
2908 Command-Line Interface
2909 ----------------------
2913 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2914 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2915 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2916 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2918 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2919 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2920 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2921 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2925 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2926 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2928 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2929 tag in your query, for example:
2931 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2933 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2934 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2936 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2937 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2939 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2941 Raw show format changes
2943 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2944 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2945 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2946 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2947 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2948 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2949 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2950 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2952 Listing configuration items
2954 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2960 Changes to tagging interface
2962 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2963 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2964 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2965 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2966 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2967 for more information.
2969 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2970 may need to update in custom configurations.
2972 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2974 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2975 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2976 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2977 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2980 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2981 -----------------------------
2983 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2984 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2985 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2986 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2987 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2988 contrib/ from now on.
2993 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2994 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2996 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2997 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2999 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3000 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3001 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3003 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3004 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3006 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3007 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3008 returning the new database object or directory object.
3015 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3016 compatible with go 1.
3018 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3019 =========================
3021 Command-Line Interface
3022 ----------------------
3026 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3027 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3028 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3029 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3031 Mail store folder/file ignore
3033 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3034 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3035 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3037 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3038 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3040 Unified help and manual pages
3042 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3043 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3046 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3048 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3049 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3057 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3058 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3059 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3060 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3062 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3064 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3065 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3067 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3070 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3071 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3072 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3074 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3076 should be changed to:
3078 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3080 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3082 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3083 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3085 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3087 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3088 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3089 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3090 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3091 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3092 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3096 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3097 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3098 of Mailing List Archives.
3100 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3102 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3103 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3106 Show view archiving key binding changes
3108 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3109 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3110 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3111 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3112 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3115 Support text/calendar MIME type
3117 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3120 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3122 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3123 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3124 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3125 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3127 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3129 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3130 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3131 messages blue by default in the search view.
3135 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3136 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3143 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3146 Python bindings changes
3147 -----------------------
3149 Python 3.2 compatibility
3151 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3153 Added missing unicode conversions
3155 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3156 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3157 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3162 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3164 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3165 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3166 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3167 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3168 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3170 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3171 ===========================
3176 Fix error handling in python bindings
3178 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3179 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3180 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3181 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3183 Quote MML tags in replies
3185 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3186 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3187 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3188 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3189 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3190 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3191 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3192 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3194 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3195 =========================
3197 Command-Line Interface
3198 ----------------------
3202 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3203 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3204 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3205 importing new messages into the database.
3207 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3209 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3210 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3211 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3216 Automatic tag query optimization
3218 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3219 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3220 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3222 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3224 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3225 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3226 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3231 Reduction of memory leaks
3233 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3234 and fixed in this release.
3241 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3242 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3243 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3246 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3248 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3249 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3250 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3253 Improvements in saved search management
3255 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3256 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3257 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3259 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3261 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3262 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3263 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3265 New face for crypto parts headers
3267 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3268 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3269 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3272 Use space as default thousands separator
3274 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3275 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3276 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3278 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3279 buttonized id: links
3281 New function notmuch-show-advance
3283 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3284 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3285 be bound to SPC with:
3287 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3289 Various performance improvements
3294 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3295 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3298 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3299 ===========================
3304 Fix crash in python bindings
3306 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3307 for some, but not all users.
3309 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3310 ===========================
3315 Fix `--help` argument
3317 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3318 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3319 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3321 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3322 =========================
3324 New build and testing features
3325 ------------------------------
3327 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3328 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3329 prerequisites is improved.
3331 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3333 New command-line features
3334 -------------------------
3336 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3338 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3339 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3342 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3344 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3345 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3346 favour of using stdout.
3348 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3350 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3351 limit the number of results shown.
3353 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3355 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3356 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3359 New emacs UI features
3360 ---------------------
3362 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3364 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3365 starting with "tag:".
3367 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3369 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3370 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3372 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3374 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3376 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3378 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3379 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3384 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3386 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3388 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3389 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3390 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3391 requires a database rebuild:
3393 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3394 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3396 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3398 New collection of add-on tools
3399 ------------------------------
3401 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3402 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3403 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3406 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3408 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3409 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3410 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3412 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3413 ========================
3415 New, general features
3416 ---------------------
3418 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3420 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3421 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3422 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3423 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3424 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3431 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3432 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3434 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3438 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3439 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3440 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3443 Python bindings changes
3444 -----------------------
3446 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3448 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3449 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3450 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3451 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3452 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3453 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3455 Ruby bindings changes
3456 ---------------------
3458 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3459 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3460 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3461 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3466 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3468 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3469 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3471 Reply formatting cleanup
3472 ------------------------
3474 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3475 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3477 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3478 ========================
3480 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3482 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3483 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3484 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3485 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3488 Improved Build system portability
3490 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3491 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3492 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3494 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3496 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3498 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3500 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3501 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3502 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3504 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3505 ========================
3507 Vim interface improvements
3508 --------------------------
3510 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3512 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3513 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3514 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3515 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3516 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3518 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3520 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3521 * fix compose temp file name
3523 Python Bindings changes
3524 -----------------------
3526 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3528 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3529 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3531 Build-System improvements
3532 -------------------------
3534 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3536 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3539 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3540 ==========================
3545 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3547 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3548 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3550 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3551 =======================
3553 New, general features
3554 ---------------------
3556 Folder-based searching
3558 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3559 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3560 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3564 For example, one might use things such as:
3570 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3571 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3573 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3574 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3575 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3576 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3578 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3579 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3580 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3583 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3584 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3586 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3588 Support for PGP/MIME
3590 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3591 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3592 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3594 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3596 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3597 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3599 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3600 notmuch will receive these tags.
3602 New command-line features
3603 -------------------------
3605 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3607 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3608 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3610 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3612 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3613 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3614 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3616 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3618 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3619 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3620 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3621 which parts a signature part applies).
3623 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3625 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3626 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3627 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3628 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3629 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3632 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3634 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3635 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3636 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3637 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3638 by translating it internally to the new call.
3640 Performance improvements
3641 ------------------------
3643 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3645 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3646 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3647 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3649 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3650 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3652 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3654 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3655 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3656 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3658 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3659 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3660 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3661 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3663 Faster initial indexing
3665 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3666 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3667 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3669 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3671 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3672 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3673 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3674 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3676 New emacs-interface features
3677 ----------------------------
3679 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3681 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3682 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3683 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3684 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3685 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3686 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3688 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3690 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3691 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3692 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3693 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3695 User-selectable From address
3697 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3698 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3699 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3700 will prompt for the from address to use.
3702 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3703 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3704 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3706 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3707 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3708 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3711 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3713 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3714 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3716 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3718 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3720 ----- Original Message -----
3722 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3723 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3724 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3725 citations work much like conventional citations.
3727 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3729 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3730 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3731 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3732 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3733 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3735 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3736 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3738 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3740 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3741 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3742 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3744 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3746 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3747 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3748 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3749 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3750 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3752 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3754 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3757 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3759 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3761 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3763 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3766 Vim interface improvements
3767 --------------------------
3769 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3771 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3772 * Implementing archive in show view
3773 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3774 * Add delete commands
3777 Bindings improvements
3778 ---------------------
3780 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3782 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3783 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3785 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3787 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3791 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3792 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3793 `list(Messages)` works now
3794 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3796 These allow, for example:
3798 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3800 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3802 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3808 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3810 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3813 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3815 New build-system features
3816 -------------------------
3818 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3820 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3821 the configure script from some other directory:
3828 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3830 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3831 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3832 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3833 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3834 manual invocation of configure.
3836 New test-suite feature
3837 ----------------------
3839 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3841 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3842 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3843 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3844 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3845 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3848 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3850 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3851 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3852 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3853 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3854 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3855 are updated to take advantage of this.
3857 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3859 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3860 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3861 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3862 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3868 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3870 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3871 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3872 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3874 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3876 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3878 to:user@elsewhere.com
3880 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3882 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3884 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3886 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3887 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3888 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3891 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3892 from the Received headers in some cases
3894 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3895 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3897 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3899 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3901 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3903 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3904 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3905 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3907 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3908 -------------------------
3910 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3912 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3913 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3914 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3916 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3918 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3919 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3920 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3923 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3925 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3926 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3927 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3928 fixed to avoid this bug.
3930 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3932 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3933 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3935 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3936 ========================
3938 New, general features
3939 ---------------------
3941 Maildir-flag synchronization
3943 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3944 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3953 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3955 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3956 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3957 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3958 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3960 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3961 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3962 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3963 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3966 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3968 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3969 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3970 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3972 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3973 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3975 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3976 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3978 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3979 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3980 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3982 New library features
3983 --------------------
3985 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3987 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3988 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3989 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3990 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3992 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3993 message with the new function:
3995 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3997 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3998 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3999 over all available filenames for a given message.
4001 New command-line features
4002 -------------------------
4004 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4006 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4007 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4008 access to the mail store itself.
4010 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4011 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4012 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4013 name of a script containing:
4015 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4017 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4018 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4024 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4026 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4028 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4030 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4031 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4032 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4033 now produces nothing).
4035 Emacs interface improvements
4036 ----------------------------
4038 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4040 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4042 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4044 Display current thread subject in a header line
4046 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4048 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4050 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4051 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4052 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4053 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4054 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4055 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4056 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4058 Vim interface improvements
4059 --------------------------
4061 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4063 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4064 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4070 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4072 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4073 ========================
4075 New command-line features
4076 -------------------------
4078 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4080 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4081 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4082 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4084 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4085 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4086 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4087 scripts. For example:
4089 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4090 <operations-on> "$file"
4093 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4095 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4096 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4097 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4098 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4099 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4100 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4102 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4104 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4105 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4106 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4107 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4109 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4111 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4112 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4113 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4114 default rather than Bcc.
4116 New library features
4117 --------------------
4119 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4121 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4122 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4127 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4129 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4130 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4131 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4132 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4133 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4134 notmuch customize interface.
4136 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4138 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4139 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4140 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4141 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4143 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4145 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4146 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4147 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4148 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4150 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4152 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4153 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4154 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4155 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4156 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4157 notmuch customize interface.
4159 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4161 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4162 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4163 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4164 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4165 notmuch customize interface.
4167 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4169 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4170 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4171 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4172 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4175 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4177 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4178 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4179 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4182 New build-system features
4183 -------------------------
4185 Various portability fixes have been applied
4187 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4188 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4189 more portable than ever before.
4191 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4193 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4194 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4195 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4197 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4198 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4199 automatically run ldconfig.
4201 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4202 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4203 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4205 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4206 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4207 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4208 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4210 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4212 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4213 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4214 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4215 used in the resulting Makefile.
4217 New test-suite features
4218 -----------------------
4220 New modularization of test suite
4222 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4223 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4224 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4225 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4226 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4227 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4228 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4229 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4231 New testing of emacs interface
4233 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4234 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4235 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4236 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4237 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4238 database via the FCC setting.
4243 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4245 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4246 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4247 persistent error of the form:
4249 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4251 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4252 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4254 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4256 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4257 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4258 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4260 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4262 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4263 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4264 parsing the notmuch results).
4266 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4268 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4271 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4272 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4273 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4278 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4280 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4281 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4282 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4283 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4284 the emacs interface.
4286 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4288 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4289 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4290 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4292 Python-binding fixes
4293 --------------------
4295 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4297 Debian-specific fixes
4298 ---------------------
4300 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4302 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4303 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4304 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4307 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4308 ==========================
4313 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4315 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4316 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4317 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4318 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4320 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4322 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4323 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4324 want notmuch to crash.
4329 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4331 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4332 directory does not exist
4337 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4339 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4340 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4342 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4343 ========================
4345 New command-line features
4346 -------------------------
4348 User-configurable tags for new messages
4350 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4351 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4352 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4353 to specify this value.
4355 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4357 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4358 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4359 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4361 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4363 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4364 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4366 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4368 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4369 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4370 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4371 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4372 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4375 Indication of author names that match a search
4377 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4378 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4379 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4380 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4381 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4382 messages in the thread are listed first.
4384 New: Python bindings
4385 --------------------
4387 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4388 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4389 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4390 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4392 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4393 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4394 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4397 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4398 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4399 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4401 Emacs interface improvements
4402 ----------------------------
4404 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4406 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4407 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4408 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4409 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4410 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4411 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4412 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4413 but without any of the disadvantages).
4415 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4416 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4417 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4420 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4421 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4422 instead running something like:
4424 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4426 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4427 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4428 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4431 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4433 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4434 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4435 tweaked by the user.
4437 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4438 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4439 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4442 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4443 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4444 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4447 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4449 This support currently relies on an external program,
4450 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4451 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4452 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4453 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4454 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4457 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4458 notmuch) is available via:
4460 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4462 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4463 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4464 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4466 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4468 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4469 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4470 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4471 making this automatic in a future release.
4473 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4475 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4476 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4477 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4478 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4479 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4480 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4483 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4485 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4486 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4487 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4489 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4491 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4492 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4493 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4495 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4496 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4497 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4498 other representation.
4500 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4501 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4504 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4506 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4507 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4508 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4510 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4511 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4512 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4514 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4516 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4517 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4518 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4519 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4520 to display the search result.
4522 More flexible handling of header visibility
4524 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4525 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4526 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4527 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4528 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4529 with the 'h' keybinding.
4531 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4532 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4533 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4535 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4537 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4539 Customizable formatting of search results
4541 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4542 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4543 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4545 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4547 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4549 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4554 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4556 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4557 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4558 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4559 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4565 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4567 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4568 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4570 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4572 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4573 accept are now all accepted.
4578 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4580 Better display of output from failed tests
4582 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4583 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4585 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4586 ========================
4588 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4589 detailed release notes this time!
4591 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4592 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4594 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4595 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4596 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4597 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4604 Better guessing of From: header
4606 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4607 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4608 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4609 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4610 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4613 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4615 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4616 guaranteed to match all messages.
4618 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4620 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4621 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4622 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4623 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4624 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4627 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4630 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4631 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4632 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4633 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4638 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4640 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4641 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4642 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4643 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4645 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4647 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4649 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4650 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4651 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4653 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4655 Previously, the user might see:
4657 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4661 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4663 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4664 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4665 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4666 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4668 Emacs client features
4669 ---------------------
4671 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4673 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4674 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4675 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4676 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4677 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4679 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4682 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4683 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4684 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4685 search with the '*' binding.
4687 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4689 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4690 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4693 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4695 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4696 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4697 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4699 Build-system features
4700 ---------------------
4702 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4704 Add support to configure for many standard options
4706 We include actual support for:
4708 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4710 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4712 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4713 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4715 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4716 separate "make install-emacs"
4718 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4720 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4721 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4722 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4724 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4727 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4728 ========================
4730 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4732 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4733 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4735 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4736 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4737 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4738 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4739 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4740 tags from messages in a thread.
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