1 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
2 =========================
7 Add support for thread:{} queries
9 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
10 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
11 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
18 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
20 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
22 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
23 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
24 does not have to be available during message receipt.
29 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
35 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
36 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
38 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
39 ===========================
44 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
46 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
47 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
48 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
50 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
52 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
53 related abort in `notmuch show`.
55 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
56 ===========================
61 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
62 better late than never.
65 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
66 =========================
68 Command Line Interface
69 ----------------------
71 Support for re-indexing existing messages
73 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
74 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
75 change the way specific messages are indexed.
77 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
78 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
79 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
81 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
83 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
85 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
87 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
88 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
89 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
90 the setting of `new.tags`.
92 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
94 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
96 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
98 This inserts into the top level folder.
100 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
102 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
104 New option --output=address for notmuch address
106 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
108 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
110 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
111 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
112 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
114 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
119 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
121 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
122 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
123 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
124 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
125 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
126 config set index.decrypt true".
128 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
129 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
130 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
131 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
132 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
133 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
134 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
135 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
137 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
138 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
139 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
140 this feature without considering the security of your index.
145 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
147 Use make-process when available
149 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
150 notmuch command without using temporary files.
155 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
157 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
158 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
159 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
160 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
162 New functions to count files
164 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
165 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
167 New function to remove properties
169 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
170 drop all properties with a common pattern:
171 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
173 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
175 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
176 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
177 possibility of NULL was not documented.
179 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
181 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
182 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
183 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
184 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
185 operator may decide to change from message to message.
192 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
193 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
194 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
200 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
202 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
203 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
205 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
207 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
209 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
211 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
216 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
217 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
219 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
220 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
221 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
222 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
223 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
224 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
229 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
231 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
232 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
233 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
234 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
236 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
237 ===========================
242 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
243 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
246 Command Line Interface
247 ----------------------
249 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
250 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
253 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
254 ===========================
256 Command Line Interface
257 ----------------------
259 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
260 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
265 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
268 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
269 ===========================
274 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
277 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
278 =========================
283 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
285 Skip HTML tags when indexing
287 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
289 Command Line Interface
290 ----------------------
292 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
294 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
299 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
301 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
302 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
305 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
310 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
312 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
313 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
315 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
317 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
318 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
321 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
323 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
325 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
327 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
328 ===========================
330 Command Line Interface
331 ----------------------
333 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
338 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
340 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
341 ===========================
346 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
348 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
349 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
352 Command Line Interface
353 ----------------------
355 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
357 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
359 Fix bug in dump header
361 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
362 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
363 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
368 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
370 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
371 =========================
376 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
378 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
381 Command Line Interface
382 ----------------------
384 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
386 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
387 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
388 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
390 New default output format to 3
392 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
393 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
394 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
395 default format changes.
400 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
402 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
403 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
404 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
405 or tree view to resume.
407 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
408 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
409 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
412 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
413 they were when you postponed in the final message.
417 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
418 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
419 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
420 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
421 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
425 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
426 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
427 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
428 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
429 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
430 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
434 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
435 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
437 Stop display of `application/*` parts
439 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
440 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
441 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
442 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
443 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
444 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
445 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
446 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
449 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
451 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
452 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
453 only tagged the current thread.)
455 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
457 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
458 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
459 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
461 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
463 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
464 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
465 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
466 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
467 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
468 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
469 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
471 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
473 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
474 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
475 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
480 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
482 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
485 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
487 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
490 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
491 ===========================
496 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
498 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
499 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
500 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
503 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
504 ===========================
506 Command Line Interface
507 ----------------------
509 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
514 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
516 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
517 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
518 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
520 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
521 ===========================
526 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
527 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
529 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
530 ===========================
532 Command Line Interface
533 ----------------------
535 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
537 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
538 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
539 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
544 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
546 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
547 ===========================
549 Command Line Interface
550 ----------------------
552 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
557 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
559 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
560 ===========================
565 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
567 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
568 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
569 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
571 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
573 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
575 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
576 ===========================
581 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
583 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
588 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
590 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
591 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
592 the original colours.
594 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
595 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
597 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
599 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
600 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
601 bug, and hence the test.
603 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
604 =========================
606 General (Xapian 1.4+)
607 ---------------------
609 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
611 Support for single argument date: queries
613 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
615 Support for blocking opens
617 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
618 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
620 Support for named queries
622 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
623 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
624 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
631 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
632 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
633 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
634 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
636 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
638 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
643 Support for compile time options
645 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
646 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
649 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
651 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
652 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
653 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
654 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
655 scripts to ignore it.
660 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
662 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
663 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
664 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
666 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
667 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
668 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
669 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
670 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
671 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
672 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
674 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
675 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
678 Make internal address completion customizable
680 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
681 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
682 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
683 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
686 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
688 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
689 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
690 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
691 completion for the current buffer.
693 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
694 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
695 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
699 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
700 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
701 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
702 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
703 will be added instead.
705 Face customization is easier
707 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
708 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
709 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
710 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
712 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
717 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
722 Go bindings moved to contrib
724 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
726 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
728 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
729 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
731 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
733 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
734 ===========================
741 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
742 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
744 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
746 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
748 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
749 ===========================
754 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
756 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
761 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
766 Use `env` to locate perl.
771 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
773 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
775 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
777 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
779 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
780 =========================
787 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
788 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
790 Limited support for S/MIME messages
792 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
793 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
794 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
799 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
800 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
801 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
803 Command Line Interface
804 ----------------------
806 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
808 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
813 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
818 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
820 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
821 parts are now included in replies.
823 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
824 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
825 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
826 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
828 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
830 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
832 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
834 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
835 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
836 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
837 forwards only the current message.
839 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
841 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
842 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
843 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
844 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
845 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
846 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
847 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
848 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
851 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
852 longer generate empty buffers
854 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
855 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
856 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
857 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
858 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
860 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
862 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
865 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
867 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
870 Address completion improvements
872 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
873 you previously configured one, customize the variable
874 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
875 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
876 interactive address completion.
878 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
880 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
881 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
882 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
887 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
888 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
889 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
895 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
896 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
897 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
898 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
899 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
900 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
902 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
903 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
904 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
905 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
906 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
907 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
909 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
910 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
912 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
913 =========================
918 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
921 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
923 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
924 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
925 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
927 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
928 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
930 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
931 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
932 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
934 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
936 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
937 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
938 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
939 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
940 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
941 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
946 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
947 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
950 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
953 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
955 Command Line Interface
956 ----------------------
958 Database revision tracking
960 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
961 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
962 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
963 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
965 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
967 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
968 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
969 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
970 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
971 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
972 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
973 manual page for further information.
978 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
980 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
981 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
983 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
985 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
986 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
987 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
989 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
991 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
993 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
994 customization as well.
996 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
998 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1000 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1002 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1004 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1005 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1006 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1007 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1009 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1011 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1012 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1013 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1014 this variable to 10000.
1019 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1020 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1022 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1024 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1025 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1026 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1027 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1028 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1029 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1030 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1031 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1032 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1035 Database revision tracking
1037 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1038 query parser and the new function
1039 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1041 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1043 Deprecated functions
1045 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1046 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1047 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1048 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1053 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1055 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1056 ===========================
1061 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1063 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1064 ===========================
1069 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1071 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1072 =========================
1074 Command-Line Interface
1075 ----------------------
1077 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1079 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1080 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1081 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1083 Path to gpg is now configurable
1085 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1086 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1091 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1093 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1098 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1103 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1108 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1110 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1111 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1113 New error logging facility
1115 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1116 output formerly printed to stderr.
1118 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1120 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1122 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1124 Fix for rounding of seconds
1129 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1131 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1132 documentation has been removed.
1134 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1136 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1137 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1142 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1143 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1144 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1149 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1150 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1151 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1152 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1153 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1154 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1157 git checkout config origin/config
1159 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1161 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1162 =========================
1167 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1168 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1169 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1170 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1171 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1172 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1173 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1175 Command-Line Interface
1176 ----------------------
1178 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1180 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1181 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1182 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1183 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1184 script callers should still check the return value.
1186 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1188 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1189 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1190 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1191 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1192 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1193 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1194 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1196 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1198 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1199 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1200 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1202 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1204 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1205 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1206 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1207 currently unmaintained.
1209 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1211 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1212 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1213 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1214 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1216 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1218 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1219 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1220 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1221 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1222 count of duplicate addresses.
1227 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1229 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1230 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1231 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1234 Improved handling of the unread tag
1236 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1237 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1238 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1239 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1240 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1241 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1242 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1244 Expanded default saved search settings
1246 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1247 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1249 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1251 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1252 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1253 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1255 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1257 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1258 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1259 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1260 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1261 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1262 the variable for details.
1267 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1269 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1270 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1271 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1272 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1274 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1276 Previously, library users were required to call
1277 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1278 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1279 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1280 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1281 too out of date for that API.
1283 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1285 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1286 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1287 atomic section will be aborted.
1289 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1290 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1292 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1294 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1295 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1296 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1297 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1298 messages into the same thread.
1303 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1304 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1305 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1306 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1307 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1308 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1313 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1314 from the config file. Use something like:
1318 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1319 "footer": "</body></html>",
1328 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1333 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1334 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1335 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1337 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1338 ===========================
1343 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1345 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1347 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1349 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1350 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1352 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1354 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1357 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1358 ===========================
1360 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1365 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1367 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1369 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1371 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1373 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1379 Use --quick when starting emacs
1381 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1383 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1385 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1387 Command-Line Interface
1388 ----------------------
1390 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1391 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1396 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1398 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1399 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1401 Fix for phrase indexing
1403 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1404 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1405 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1410 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1412 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1413 unintentionally removed.
1415 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1416 =========================
1421 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1422 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1423 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1424 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1425 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1426 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1427 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1428 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1429 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1435 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1437 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1438 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1439 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1440 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1441 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1442 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1443 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1444 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1446 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1448 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1449 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1450 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1451 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1454 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1456 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1457 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1458 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1459 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1460 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1461 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1462 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1467 Notmuch database upgrade
1469 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1470 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1471 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1472 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1473 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1474 released version of Notmuch before now.
1476 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1478 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1479 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1480 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1481 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1483 Message header parsing changes
1485 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1486 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1487 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1488 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1489 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1490 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1492 Command-Line Interface
1493 ----------------------
1495 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1497 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1499 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1501 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1503 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1505 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1506 user does not want it.
1508 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1510 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1511 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1512 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1513 support formatted output.
1515 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1517 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1518 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1519 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1527 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1528 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1529 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1530 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1531 `~/.emacs` with these.
1533 Changed format for saved searches
1535 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1536 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1537 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1538 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1541 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1542 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1543 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1544 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1546 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1547 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1548 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1550 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1551 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1552 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1553 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1554 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1556 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1558 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1559 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1560 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1562 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1564 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1565 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1566 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1567 message had been unread).
1569 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1570 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1571 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1572 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1574 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1575 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1576 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1578 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1579 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1580 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1581 to tags already present.
1585 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1586 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1587 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1588 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1589 these differ from each other.
1590 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1592 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1594 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1595 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1596 for these Emacs versions.
1598 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1600 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1601 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1603 Bug fixes for sender identities
1605 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1606 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1607 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1609 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1611 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1612 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1613 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1614 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1616 Reply pushes mark before signature
1618 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1619 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1620 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1622 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1624 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1625 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1631 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1632 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1634 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1635 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1636 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1637 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1639 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1640 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1641 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1642 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1643 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1645 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1647 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1648 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1650 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1651 =========================
1653 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1654 ---------------------------------------
1656 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1657 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1658 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1659 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1660 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1661 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1662 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1666 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1667 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1669 Command-Line Interface
1670 ----------------------
1672 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1674 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1675 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1676 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1677 print for each message.
1679 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1680 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1681 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1682 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1684 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1686 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1687 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1688 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1690 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1692 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1693 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1694 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1695 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1697 `notmuch compact` command
1699 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1700 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1701 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1702 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1703 move the compacted database into place.
1708 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1710 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1711 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1712 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1713 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1714 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1715 and multiple threads.
1717 Using `notmuch-tree`
1719 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1721 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1722 search, show and tree mode itself)
1724 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1727 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1728 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1730 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1732 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1733 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1734 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1735 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1736 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1737 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1738 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1740 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1742 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1743 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1744 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1745 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1746 thread when the search was performed.
1748 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1750 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1751 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1752 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1754 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1756 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1757 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1760 Built-in help improvements
1762 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1763 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1764 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1766 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1768 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1769 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1770 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1772 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1774 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1775 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1777 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1779 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1780 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1781 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1782 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1784 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1786 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1787 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1788 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1789 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1791 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1793 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1794 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1795 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1797 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1799 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1800 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1801 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1803 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1805 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1806 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1807 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1808 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1809 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1811 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1813 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1814 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1815 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1816 the body part of the message.
1821 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1822 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1823 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1825 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1826 =========================
1828 Command-Line Interface
1829 ----------------------
1831 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1833 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1834 folder and notmuch index.
1836 `notmuch count --batch` option
1838 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1839 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1841 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1843 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1844 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1845 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1848 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1850 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1851 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1852 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1853 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1854 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1857 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1859 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1860 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1862 Top level option to specify configuration file
1864 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1865 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1867 Bash command-line completion
1869 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1870 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1871 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1872 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1873 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1874 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1875 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1876 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1877 bash-completion package.
1879 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1884 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1886 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1887 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1888 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1889 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1890 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1891 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1892 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1893 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1895 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1897 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1898 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1899 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1901 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1903 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1904 previous thread in the search results.
1906 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1908 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1909 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1911 Faster search and show
1913 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1914 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1915 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1916 threads should show faster.
1920 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1921 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1922 in question was now removed from this release.
1927 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1928 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1933 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1935 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1936 ===========================
1941 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1943 Internal test framework changes
1944 -------------------------------
1946 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1947 being unimplemented.
1949 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1950 ===========================
1952 Internal test framework changes
1953 -------------------------------
1955 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1956 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1958 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1959 =========================
1964 Date range search support
1966 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1967 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1968 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1969 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1970 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1973 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1975 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1976 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1977 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1978 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1979 but may be removed in a future release.
1981 Command-Line Interface
1982 ----------------------
1984 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1986 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1987 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1989 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1991 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1992 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1993 officially deprecated.
1995 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1997 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1998 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1999 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2001 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2003 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2004 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2007 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2008 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2009 dump/restore format.
2011 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2013 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2014 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2015 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2017 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2019 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2020 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2021 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2023 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2025 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2026 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2027 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2028 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2033 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2035 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2036 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2037 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2038 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2040 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2042 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2043 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2044 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2045 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2046 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2047 the behavior of this, see
2048 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2049 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2051 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2052 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2053 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2055 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2057 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2058 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2061 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2063 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2064 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2065 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2066 simply displayed in place of the message.
2068 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2070 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2071 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2073 Improved text/calendar content handling
2075 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2076 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2077 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2078 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2080 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2082 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2083 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2084 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2085 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2087 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2089 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2090 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2091 for HTML email containing images.
2093 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2095 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2097 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2099 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2102 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2104 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2105 the point where it was.
2107 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2109 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2110 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2111 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2112 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2113 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2115 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2117 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2118 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2119 thread instead of the message id.
2121 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2122 -----------------------------
2124 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2125 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2126 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2127 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2128 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2129 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2130 further details and installation.
2135 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2137 Internal test framework changes
2138 -------------------------------
2140 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2142 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2143 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2144 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2145 can result in buggy behavior.
2147 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2148 =========================
2153 Maildir tag synchronization
2155 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2156 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2157 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2158 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2159 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2160 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2163 Command-Line Interface
2164 ----------------------
2166 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2167 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2168 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2169 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2170 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2176 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2178 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2180 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2181 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2182 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2184 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2186 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2187 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2188 span multiple lines.
2190 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2192 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2193 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2194 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2195 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2196 inside the result or message.
2198 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2200 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2201 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2203 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2204 user-specified formatting
2206 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2207 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2208 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2209 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2210 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2212 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2213 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2215 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2216 ===========================
2221 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2222 compilation error for this contrib package.
2224 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2225 ===========================
2230 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2232 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2233 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2234 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2235 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2237 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2238 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2241 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2242 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2243 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2244 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2247 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2249 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2252 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2253 =========================
2255 Command-Line Interface
2256 ----------------------
2260 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2261 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2262 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2263 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2265 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2266 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2267 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2268 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2272 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2273 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2275 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2276 tag in your query, for example:
2278 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2280 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2281 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2283 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2284 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2286 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2288 Raw show format changes
2290 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2291 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2292 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2293 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2294 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2295 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2296 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2297 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2299 Listing configuration items
2301 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2307 Changes to tagging interface
2309 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2310 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2311 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2312 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2313 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2314 for more information.
2316 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2317 may need to update in custom configurations.
2319 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2321 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2322 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2323 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2324 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2327 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2328 -----------------------------
2330 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2331 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2332 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2333 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2334 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2335 contrib/ from now on.
2340 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2341 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2343 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2344 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2346 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2347 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2348 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2350 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2351 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2353 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2354 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2355 returning the new database object or directory object.
2362 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2363 compatible with go 1.
2365 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2366 =========================
2368 Command-Line Interface
2369 ----------------------
2373 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2374 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2375 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2376 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2378 Mail store folder/file ignore
2380 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2381 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2382 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2384 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2385 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2387 Unified help and manual pages
2389 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2390 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2393 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2395 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2396 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2404 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2405 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2406 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2407 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2409 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2411 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2412 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2414 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2417 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2418 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2419 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2421 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2423 should be changed to:
2425 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2427 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2429 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2430 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2432 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2434 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2435 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2436 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2437 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2438 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2439 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2443 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2444 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2445 of Mailing List Archives.
2447 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2449 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2450 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2453 Show view archiving key binding changes
2455 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2456 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2457 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2458 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2459 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2462 Support text/calendar MIME type
2464 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2467 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2469 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2470 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2471 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2472 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2474 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2476 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2477 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2478 messages blue by default in the search view.
2482 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2483 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2490 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2493 Python bindings changes
2494 -----------------------
2496 Python 3.2 compatibility
2498 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2500 Added missing unicode conversions
2502 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2503 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2504 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2509 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2511 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2512 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2513 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2514 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2515 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2517 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2518 ===========================
2523 Fix error handling in python bindings
2525 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2526 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2527 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2528 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2530 Quote MML tags in replies
2532 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2533 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2534 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2535 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2536 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2537 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2538 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2539 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2541 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2542 =========================
2544 Command-Line Interface
2545 ----------------------
2549 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2550 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2551 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2552 importing new messages into the database.
2554 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2556 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2557 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2558 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2563 Automatic tag query optimization
2565 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2566 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2567 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2569 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2571 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2572 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2573 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2578 Reduction of memory leaks
2580 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2581 and fixed in this release.
2588 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2589 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2590 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2593 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2595 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2596 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2597 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2600 Improvements in saved search management
2602 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2603 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2604 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2606 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2608 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2609 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2610 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2612 New face for crypto parts headers
2614 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2615 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2616 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2619 Use space as default thousands separator
2621 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2622 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2623 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2625 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2626 buttonized id: links
2628 New function notmuch-show-advance
2630 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2631 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2632 be bound to SPC with:
2634 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2636 Various performance improvements
2641 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2642 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2645 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2646 ===========================
2651 Fix crash in python bindings
2653 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2654 for some, but not all users.
2656 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2657 ===========================
2662 Fix `--help` argument
2664 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2665 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2666 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2668 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2669 =========================
2671 New build and testing features
2672 ------------------------------
2674 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2675 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2676 prerequisites is improved.
2678 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2680 New command-line features
2681 -------------------------
2683 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2685 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2686 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2689 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2691 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2692 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2693 favour of using stdout.
2695 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2697 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2698 limit the number of results shown.
2700 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2702 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2703 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2706 New emacs UI features
2707 ---------------------
2709 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2711 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2712 starting with "tag:".
2714 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2716 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2717 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2719 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2721 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2723 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2725 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2726 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2731 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2733 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2735 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2736 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2737 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2738 requires a database rebuild:
2740 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2741 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2743 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2745 New collection of add-on tools
2746 ------------------------------
2748 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2749 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2750 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2753 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2755 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2756 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2757 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2759 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2760 ========================
2762 New, general features
2763 ---------------------
2765 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2767 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2768 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2769 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2770 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2771 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2778 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2779 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2781 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2785 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2786 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2787 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2790 Python bindings changes
2791 -----------------------
2793 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2795 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2796 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2797 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2798 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2799 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2800 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2802 Ruby bindings changes
2803 ---------------------
2805 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2806 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2807 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2808 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2813 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2815 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2816 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2818 Reply formatting cleanup
2819 ------------------------
2821 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2822 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2824 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2825 ========================
2827 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2829 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2830 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2831 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2832 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2835 Improved Build system portability
2837 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2838 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2839 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2841 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2843 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2845 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2847 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2848 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2849 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2851 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2852 ========================
2854 Vim interface improvements
2855 --------------------------
2857 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2859 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2860 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2861 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2862 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2863 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2865 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2867 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2868 * fix compose temp file name
2870 Python Bindings changes
2871 -----------------------
2873 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2875 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2876 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2878 Build-System improvements
2879 -------------------------
2881 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2883 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2886 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2887 ==========================
2892 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2894 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2895 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2897 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2898 =======================
2900 New, general features
2901 ---------------------
2903 Folder-based searching
2905 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2906 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2907 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2911 For example, one might use things such as:
2917 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2918 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2920 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2921 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2922 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2923 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2925 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2926 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2927 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2930 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2931 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2933 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2935 Support for PGP/MIME
2937 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2938 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2939 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2941 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2943 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2944 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2946 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2947 notmuch will receive these tags.
2949 New command-line features
2950 -------------------------
2952 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2954 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2955 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2957 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2959 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2960 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2961 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2963 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2965 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2966 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2967 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2968 which parts a signature part applies).
2970 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2972 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2973 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2974 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2975 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2976 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2979 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2981 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2982 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2983 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2984 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2985 by translating it internally to the new call.
2987 Performance improvements
2988 ------------------------
2990 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2992 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2993 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2994 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2996 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2997 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2999 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3001 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3002 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3003 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3005 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3006 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3007 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3008 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3010 Faster initial indexing
3012 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3013 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3014 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3016 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3018 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3019 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3020 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3021 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3023 New emacs-interface features
3024 ----------------------------
3026 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3028 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3029 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3030 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3031 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3032 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3033 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3035 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3037 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3038 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3039 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3040 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3042 User-selectable From address
3044 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3045 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3046 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3047 will prompt for the from address to use.
3049 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3050 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3051 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3053 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3054 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3055 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3058 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3060 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3061 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3063 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3065 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3067 ----- Original Message -----
3069 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3070 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3071 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3072 citations work much like conventional citations.
3074 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3076 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3077 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3078 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3079 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3080 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3082 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3083 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3085 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3087 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3088 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3089 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3091 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3093 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3094 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3095 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3096 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3097 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3099 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3101 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3104 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3106 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3108 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3110 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3113 Vim interface improvements
3114 --------------------------
3116 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3118 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3119 * Implementing archive in show view
3120 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3121 * Add delete commands
3124 Bindings improvements
3125 ---------------------
3127 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3129 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3130 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3132 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3134 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3138 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3139 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3140 `list(Messages)` works now
3141 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3143 These allow, for example:
3145 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3147 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3149 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3155 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3157 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3160 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3162 New build-system features
3163 -------------------------
3165 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3167 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3168 the configure script from some other directory:
3175 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3177 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3178 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3179 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3180 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3181 manual invocation of configure.
3183 New test-suite feature
3184 ----------------------
3186 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3188 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3189 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3190 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3191 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3192 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3195 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3197 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3198 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3199 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3200 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3201 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3202 are updated to take advantage of this.
3204 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3206 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3207 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3208 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3209 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3215 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3217 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3218 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3219 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3221 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3223 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3225 to:user@elsewhere.com
3227 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3229 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3231 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3233 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3234 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3235 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3238 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3239 from the Received headers in some cases
3241 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3242 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3244 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3246 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3248 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3250 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3251 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3252 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3254 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3255 -------------------------
3257 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3259 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3260 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3261 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3263 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3265 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3266 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3267 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3270 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3272 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3273 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3274 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3275 fixed to avoid this bug.
3277 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3279 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3280 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3282 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3283 ========================
3285 New, general features
3286 ---------------------
3288 Maildir-flag synchronization
3290 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3291 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3300 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3302 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3303 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3304 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3305 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3307 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3308 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3309 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3310 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3313 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3315 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3316 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3317 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3319 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3320 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3322 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3323 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3325 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3326 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3327 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3329 New library features
3330 --------------------
3332 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3334 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3335 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3336 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3337 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3339 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3340 message with the new function:
3342 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3344 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3345 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3346 over all available filenames for a given message.
3348 New command-line features
3349 -------------------------
3351 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3353 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3354 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3355 access to the mail store itself.
3357 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3358 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3359 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3360 name of a script containing:
3362 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3364 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3365 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3371 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3373 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3375 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3377 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3378 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3379 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3380 now produces nothing).
3382 Emacs interface improvements
3383 ----------------------------
3385 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3387 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3389 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3391 Display current thread subject in a header line
3393 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3395 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3397 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3398 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3399 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3400 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3401 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3402 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3403 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3405 Vim interface improvements
3406 --------------------------
3408 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3410 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3411 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3417 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3419 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3420 ========================
3422 New command-line features
3423 -------------------------
3425 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3427 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3428 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3429 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3431 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3432 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3433 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3434 scripts. For example:
3436 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3437 <operations-on> "$file"
3440 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3442 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3443 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3444 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3445 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3446 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3447 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3449 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3451 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3452 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3453 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3454 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3456 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3458 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3459 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3460 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3461 default rather than Bcc.
3463 New library features
3464 --------------------
3466 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3468 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3469 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3474 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3476 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3477 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3478 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3479 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3480 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3481 notmuch customize interface.
3483 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3485 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3486 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3487 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3488 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3490 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3492 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3493 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3494 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3495 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3497 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3499 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3500 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3501 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3502 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3503 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3504 notmuch customize interface.
3506 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3508 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3509 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3510 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3511 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3512 notmuch customize interface.
3514 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3516 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3517 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3518 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3519 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3522 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3524 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3525 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3526 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3529 New build-system features
3530 -------------------------
3532 Various portability fixes have been applied
3534 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3535 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3536 more portable than ever before.
3538 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3540 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3541 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3542 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3544 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3545 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3546 automatically run ldconfig.
3548 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3549 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3550 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3552 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3553 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3554 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3555 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3557 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3559 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3560 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3561 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3562 used in the resulting Makefile.
3564 New test-suite features
3565 -----------------------
3567 New modularization of test suite
3569 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3570 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3571 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3572 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3573 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3574 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3575 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3576 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3578 New testing of emacs interface
3580 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3581 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3582 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3583 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3584 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3585 database via the FCC setting.
3590 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3592 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3593 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3594 persistent error of the form:
3596 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3598 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3599 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3601 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3603 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3604 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3605 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3607 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3609 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3610 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3611 parsing the notmuch results).
3613 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3615 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3618 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3619 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3620 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3625 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3627 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3628 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3629 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3630 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3631 the emacs interface.
3633 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3635 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3636 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3637 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3639 Python-binding fixes
3640 --------------------
3642 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3644 Debian-specific fixes
3645 ---------------------
3647 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3649 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3650 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3651 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3654 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3655 ==========================
3660 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3662 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3663 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3664 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3665 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3667 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3669 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3670 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3671 want notmuch to crash.
3676 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3678 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3679 directory does not exist
3684 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3686 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3687 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3689 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3690 ========================
3692 New command-line features
3693 -------------------------
3695 User-configurable tags for new messages
3697 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3698 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3699 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3700 to specify this value.
3702 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3704 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3705 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3706 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3708 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3710 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3711 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3713 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3715 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3716 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3717 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3718 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3719 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3722 Indication of author names that match a search
3724 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3725 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3726 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3727 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3728 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3729 messages in the thread are listed first.
3731 New: Python bindings
3732 --------------------
3734 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3735 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3736 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3737 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3739 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3740 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3741 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3744 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3745 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3746 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3748 Emacs interface improvements
3749 ----------------------------
3751 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3753 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3754 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3755 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3756 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3757 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3758 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3759 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3760 but without any of the disadvantages).
3762 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3763 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3764 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3767 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3768 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3769 instead running something like:
3771 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3773 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3774 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3775 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3778 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3780 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3781 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3782 tweaked by the user.
3784 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3785 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3786 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3789 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3790 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3791 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3794 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3796 This support currently relies on an external program,
3797 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3798 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3799 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3800 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3801 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3804 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3805 notmuch) is available via:
3807 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3809 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3810 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3811 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3813 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3815 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3816 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3817 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3818 making this automatic in a future release.
3820 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3822 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3823 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3824 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3825 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3826 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3827 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3830 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3832 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3833 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3834 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3836 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3838 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3839 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3840 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3842 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3843 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3844 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3845 other representation.
3847 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3848 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3851 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3853 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3854 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3855 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3857 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3858 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3859 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3861 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3863 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3864 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3865 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3866 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3867 to display the search result.
3869 More flexible handling of header visibility
3871 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3872 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3873 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3874 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3875 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3876 with the 'h' keybinding.
3878 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3879 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3880 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3882 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3884 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3886 Customizable formatting of search results
3888 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3889 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3890 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3892 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3894 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3896 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3901 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3903 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3904 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3905 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3906 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3912 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3914 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3915 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3917 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3919 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3920 accept are now all accepted.
3925 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3927 Better display of output from failed tests
3929 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3930 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3932 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3933 ========================
3935 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3936 detailed release notes this time!
3938 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3939 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3941 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3942 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3943 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3944 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3951 Better guessing of From: header
3953 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3954 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3955 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3956 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3957 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3960 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3962 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3963 guaranteed to match all messages.
3965 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3967 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3968 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3969 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3970 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3971 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3974 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3977 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3978 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3979 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3980 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3985 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3987 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3988 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3989 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3990 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3992 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3994 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3996 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3997 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3998 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4000 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4002 Previously, the user might see:
4004 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4008 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4010 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4011 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4012 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4013 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4015 Emacs client features
4016 ---------------------
4018 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4020 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4021 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4022 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4023 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4024 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4026 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4029 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4030 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4031 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4032 search with the '*' binding.
4034 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4036 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4037 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4040 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4042 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4043 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4044 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4046 Build-system features
4047 ---------------------
4049 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4051 Add support to configure for many standard options
4053 We include actual support for:
4055 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4057 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4059 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4060 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4062 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4063 separate "make install-emacs"
4065 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4067 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4068 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4069 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4071 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4074 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4075 ========================
4077 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4079 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4080 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4082 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4083 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4084 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4085 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4086 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4087 tags from messages in a thread.
4094 indent-tabs-mode: nil