1 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
2 ===========================
7 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
12 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
14 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
15 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
16 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
18 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
19 ===========================
24 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
25 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
27 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
28 ===========================
30 Command Line Interface
31 ----------------------
33 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
35 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
36 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
37 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
42 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
44 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
45 ===========================
47 Command Line Interface
48 ----------------------
50 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
55 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
57 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
58 ===========================
63 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
65 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
66 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
67 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
69 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
71 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
73 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
74 ===========================
79 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
81 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
86 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
88 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
89 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
92 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
93 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
95 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
97 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
98 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
99 bug, and hence the test.
101 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
102 =========================
104 General (Xapian 1.4+)
105 ---------------------
107 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
109 Support for single argument date: queries
111 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
113 Support for blocking opens
115 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
116 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
118 Support for named queries
120 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
121 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
122 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
129 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
130 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
131 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
132 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
134 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
136 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
141 Support for compile time options
143 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
144 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
147 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
149 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
150 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
151 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
152 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
153 scripts to ignore it.
158 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
160 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
161 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
162 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
164 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
165 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
166 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
167 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
168 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
169 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
170 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
172 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
173 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
176 Make internal address completion customizable
178 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
179 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
180 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
181 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
184 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
186 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
187 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
188 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
189 completion for the current buffer.
191 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
192 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
193 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
197 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
198 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
199 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
200 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
201 will be added instead.
203 Face customization is easier
205 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
206 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
207 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
208 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
210 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
215 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
220 Go bindings moved to contrib
222 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
224 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
226 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
227 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
229 The same issue occured with sort modes.
231 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
232 ===========================
239 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
240 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
242 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
244 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
246 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
247 ===========================
252 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
254 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
259 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
264 Use `env` to locate perl.
269 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
271 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
273 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
275 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
277 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
278 =========================
285 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
286 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
288 Limited support for S/MIME messages
290 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
291 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
292 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
297 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
298 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
299 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
301 Command Line Interface
302 ----------------------
304 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
306 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
311 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
316 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
318 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
319 parts are now included in replies.
321 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
322 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
323 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
324 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
326 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
328 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
330 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
332 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
333 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
334 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
335 forwards only the current message.
337 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
339 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
340 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
341 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
342 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
343 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
344 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
345 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
346 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
349 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
350 longer generate empty buffers
352 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
353 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
354 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
355 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
356 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
358 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
360 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
363 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
365 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
368 Address completion improvements
370 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
371 you previously configured one, customize the variable
372 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
373 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
374 interactive address completion.
376 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
378 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
379 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
380 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
385 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
386 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
387 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
393 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
394 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
395 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
396 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
397 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
398 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
400 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
401 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
402 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
403 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
404 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
405 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
407 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
408 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
410 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
411 =========================
416 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
419 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
421 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
422 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
423 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
425 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
426 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
428 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
429 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
430 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
432 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
434 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
435 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
436 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
437 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
438 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
439 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
444 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
445 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
448 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
451 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
453 Command Line Interface
454 ----------------------
456 Database revision tracking
458 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
459 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
460 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
461 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
463 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
465 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
466 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
467 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
468 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
469 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
470 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
471 manual page for further information.
476 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
478 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
479 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
481 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
483 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
484 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
485 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
487 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
489 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
491 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
492 customization as well.
494 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
496 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
498 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
500 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
502 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
503 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
504 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
505 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
507 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
509 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
510 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
511 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
512 this variable to 10000.
517 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
518 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
520 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
522 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
523 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
524 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
525 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
526 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
527 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
528 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
529 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
530 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
533 Database revision tracking
535 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
536 query parser and the new function
537 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
539 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
543 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
544 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
545 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
546 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
551 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
553 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
554 ===========================
559 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
561 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
562 ===========================
567 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
569 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
570 =========================
572 Command-Line Interface
573 ----------------------
575 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
577 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
578 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
579 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
581 Path to gpg is now configurable
583 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
584 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
589 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
591 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
596 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
601 Support messages without Message-IDs.
606 Undeprecate single message mboxes
608 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
609 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
611 New error logging facility
613 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
614 output formerly printed to stderr.
616 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
618 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
620 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
622 Fix for rounding of seconds
627 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
629 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
630 docmumentation has been removed.
632 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
634 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
635 some material from the relicensed wiki.
640 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
641 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
642 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
647 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
648 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
649 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
650 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
651 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
652 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
655 git checkout config origin/config
657 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
659 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
660 =========================
665 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
666 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
667 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
668 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
669 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
670 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
671 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
673 Command-Line Interface
674 ----------------------
676 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
678 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
679 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
680 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
681 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
682 script callers should still check the return value.
684 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
686 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
687 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
688 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
689 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
690 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
691 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
692 and returning success even if indexing fails).
694 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
696 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
697 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
698 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
700 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
702 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
703 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
704 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
705 currently unmaintained.
707 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
709 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
710 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
711 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
712 have at least `N` files associated with them.
714 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
716 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
717 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
718 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
719 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
720 count of duplicate addresses.
725 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
727 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
728 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
729 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
732 Improved handling of the unread tag
734 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
735 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
736 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
737 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
738 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
739 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
740 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
742 Expanded default saved search settings
744 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
745 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
747 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
749 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
750 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
751 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
753 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
755 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
756 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
757 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
758 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
759 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
760 the variable for details.
765 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
767 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
768 Representing these independently of the database version number will
769 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
770 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
772 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
774 Previously, library users were required to call
775 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
776 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
777 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
778 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
779 too out of date for that API.
781 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
783 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
784 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
785 atomic section will be aborted.
787 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
788 `notmuch_database_destroy`
790 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
792 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
793 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
794 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
795 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
796 messages into the same thread.
801 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
802 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
803 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
804 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
805 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
806 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
811 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
812 from the config file. Use something like:
816 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
817 "footer": "</body></html>",
826 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
831 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
832 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
833 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
835 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
836 ===========================
841 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
843 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
845 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
847 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
848 structure for signatures changed slightly.
850 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
852 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
855 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
856 ===========================
858 This is a bug fix and portability release.
863 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
865 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
867 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
869 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
871 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
877 Use --quick when starting emacs
879 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
881 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
883 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
885 Command-Line Interface
886 ----------------------
888 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
889 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
894 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
896 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
897 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
899 Fix for phrase indexing
901 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
902 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
903 will affect only newly indexed messages.
908 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
910 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
911 unintentionally removed.
913 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
914 =========================
919 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
920 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
921 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
922 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
923 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
924 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
925 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
926 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
927 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
933 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
935 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
936 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
937 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
938 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
939 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
940 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
941 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
942 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
944 There is a new `path:` search prefix
946 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
947 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
948 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
949 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
952 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
954 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
955 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
956 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
957 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
958 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
959 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
960 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
965 Notmuch database upgrade
967 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
968 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
969 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
970 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
971 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
972 released version of Notmuch before now.
974 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
976 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
977 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
978 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
979 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
981 Message header parsing changes
983 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
984 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
985 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
986 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
987 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
988 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
990 Command-Line Interface
991 ----------------------
993 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
995 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
997 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
999 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1001 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1003 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1004 user does not want it.
1006 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1008 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1009 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1010 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1011 support formatted output.
1013 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1015 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1016 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1017 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1025 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1026 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1027 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1028 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1029 `~/.emacs` with these.
1031 Changed format for saved searches
1033 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1034 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1035 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1036 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1039 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1040 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1041 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1042 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1044 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1045 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1046 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1048 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1049 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1050 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1051 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1052 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1054 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1056 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1057 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1058 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1060 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1062 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1063 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1064 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1065 message had been unread).
1067 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1068 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1069 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1070 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1072 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1073 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1074 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1076 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1077 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1078 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1079 to tags already present.
1083 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1084 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1085 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1086 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1087 these differ from each other.
1088 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1090 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1092 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1093 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1094 for these Emacs versions.
1096 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1098 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1099 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1101 Bug fixes for sender identities
1103 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1104 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1105 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1107 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1109 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1110 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1111 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1112 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1114 Reply pushes mark before signature
1116 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1117 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1118 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1120 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1122 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1123 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1129 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1130 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1132 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1133 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1134 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1135 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1137 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1138 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1139 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1140 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1141 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1143 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1145 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1146 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1148 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1149 =========================
1151 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1152 ---------------------------------------
1154 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1155 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1156 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1157 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1158 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1159 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1160 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1164 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1165 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1167 Command-Line Interface
1168 ----------------------
1170 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1172 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1173 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1174 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1175 print for each message.
1177 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1178 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1179 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1180 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1182 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1184 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1185 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1186 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1188 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1190 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1191 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1192 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1193 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1195 `notmuch compact` command
1197 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1198 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1199 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1200 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1201 move the compacted database into place.
1206 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1208 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1209 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1210 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1211 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1212 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1213 and multiple threads.
1215 Using `notmuch-tree`
1217 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1219 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1220 search, show and tree mode itself)
1222 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1225 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1226 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1228 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1230 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1231 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1232 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1233 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1234 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1235 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1236 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1238 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1240 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1241 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1242 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1243 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1244 thread when the search was performed.
1246 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1248 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1249 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1250 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1252 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1254 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1255 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1258 Built-in help improvements
1260 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1261 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1262 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1264 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1266 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1267 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1268 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1270 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1272 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1273 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1275 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1277 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1278 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1279 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1280 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1282 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1284 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1285 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1286 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1287 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1289 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1291 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1292 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1293 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1295 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1297 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1298 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1299 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1301 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1303 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1304 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1305 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1306 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1307 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1309 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1311 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1312 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1313 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1314 the body part of the message.
1319 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1320 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1321 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1323 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1324 =========================
1326 Command-Line Interface
1327 ----------------------
1329 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1331 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1332 folder and notmuch index.
1334 `notmuch count --batch` option
1336 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1337 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1339 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1341 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1342 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1343 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1346 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1348 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1349 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1350 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1351 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1352 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1355 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1357 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1358 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1360 Top level option to specify configuration file
1362 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1363 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1365 Bash command-line completion
1367 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1368 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1369 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1370 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1371 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1372 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1373 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1374 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1375 bash-completion package.
1377 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1382 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1384 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1385 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1386 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1387 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1388 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1389 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1390 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1391 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1393 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1395 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1396 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1397 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1399 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1401 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1402 previous thread in the search results.
1404 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1406 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1407 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1409 Faster search and show
1411 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1412 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1413 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1414 threads should show faster.
1418 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1419 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1420 in question was now removed from this release.
1425 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1426 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1431 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1433 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1434 ===========================
1439 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1441 Internal test framework changes
1442 -------------------------------
1444 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1445 being unimplemented.
1447 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1448 ===========================
1450 Internal test framework changes
1451 -------------------------------
1453 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1454 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1456 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1457 =========================
1462 Date range search support
1464 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1465 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1466 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1467 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1468 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1471 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1473 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1474 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1475 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1476 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1477 but may be removed in a future release.
1479 Command-Line Interface
1480 ----------------------
1482 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1484 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1485 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1487 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1489 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1490 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1491 officially deprecated.
1493 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1495 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1496 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1497 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1499 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1501 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1502 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1505 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1506 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1507 dump/restore format.
1509 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1511 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1512 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1513 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1515 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1517 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1518 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1519 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1521 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1523 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1524 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1525 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1526 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1531 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1533 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1534 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1535 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1536 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1538 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1540 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1541 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1542 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1543 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1544 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1545 the behavior of this, see
1546 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1547 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1549 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1550 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1551 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1553 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1555 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1556 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1559 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1561 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1562 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1563 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1564 simply displayed in place of the message.
1566 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1568 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1569 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1571 Improved text/calendar content handling
1573 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1574 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1575 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1576 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1578 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1580 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1581 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1582 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1583 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1585 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1587 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1588 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1589 for HTML email containing images.
1591 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1593 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1595 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1597 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1600 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1602 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1603 the point where it was.
1605 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1607 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1608 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1609 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1610 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1611 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1613 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1615 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1616 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1617 thread instead of the message id.
1619 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1620 -----------------------------
1622 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1623 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1624 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1625 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1626 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1627 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1628 further details and installation.
1633 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1635 Internal test framework changes
1636 -------------------------------
1638 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1640 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1641 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1642 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1643 can result in buggy behavior.
1645 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1646 =========================
1651 Maildir tag synchronization
1653 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1654 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1655 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1656 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1657 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1658 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1661 Command-Line Interface
1662 ----------------------
1664 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1665 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1666 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1667 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1668 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1674 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1676 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1678 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1679 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1680 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1682 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1684 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1685 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1686 span multiple lines.
1688 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1690 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1691 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1692 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1693 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1694 inside the result or message.
1696 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1698 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1699 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1701 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1702 user-specified formatting
1704 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1705 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1706 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1707 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1708 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1710 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1711 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1713 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1714 ===========================
1719 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1720 compilation error for this contrib package.
1722 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1723 ===========================
1728 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1730 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1731 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1732 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1733 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1735 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1736 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1739 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1740 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1741 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1742 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1745 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1747 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1750 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1751 =========================
1753 Command-Line Interface
1754 ----------------------
1758 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1759 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1760 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1761 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1763 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1764 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1765 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1766 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1770 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1771 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1773 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1774 tag in your query, for example:
1776 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1778 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1779 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1781 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1782 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1784 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1786 Raw show format changes
1788 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1789 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1790 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1791 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1792 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1793 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1794 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1795 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1797 Listing configuration items
1799 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1805 Changes to tagging interface
1807 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1808 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1809 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1810 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1811 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1812 for more information.
1814 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1815 may need to update in custom configurations.
1817 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1819 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1820 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1821 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1822 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1825 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1826 -----------------------------
1828 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1829 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1830 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1831 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1832 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1833 contrib/ from now on.
1838 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1839 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1841 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1842 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1844 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1845 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1846 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1848 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1849 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1851 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1852 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1853 returning the new database object or directory object.
1860 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1861 compatible with go 1.
1863 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1864 =========================
1866 Command-Line Interface
1867 ----------------------
1871 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1872 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1873 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1874 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1876 Mail store folder/file ignore
1878 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1879 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1880 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1882 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1883 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1885 Unified help and manual pages
1887 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1888 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1891 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1893 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1894 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1902 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1903 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1904 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1905 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1907 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1909 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1910 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1912 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1915 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1916 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1917 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1919 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1921 should be changed to:
1923 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1925 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1927 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1928 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1930 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1932 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1933 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1934 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1935 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1936 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1937 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1941 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1942 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1943 of Mailing List Archives.
1945 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1947 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1948 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1951 Show view archiving key binding changes
1953 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1954 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1955 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1956 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1957 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1960 Support text/calendar MIME type
1962 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1965 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1967 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1968 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1969 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1970 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1972 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1974 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1975 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1976 messages blue by default in the search view.
1980 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1981 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1988 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1991 Python bindings changes
1992 -----------------------
1994 Python 3.2 compatibility
1996 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1998 Added missing unicode conversions
2000 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2001 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2002 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2007 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2009 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2010 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2011 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2012 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2013 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2015 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2016 ===========================
2021 Fix error handling in python bindings
2023 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2024 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2025 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2026 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2028 Quote MML tags in replies
2030 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2031 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2032 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2033 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2034 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2035 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2036 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2037 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2039 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2040 =========================
2042 Command-Line Interface
2043 ----------------------
2047 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2048 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2049 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2050 importing new messages into the database.
2052 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2054 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2055 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2056 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2061 Automatic tag query optimization
2063 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2064 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2065 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2067 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2069 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2070 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2071 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2076 Reduction of memory leaks
2078 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2079 and fixed in this release.
2086 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2087 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2088 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2091 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2093 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2094 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2095 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2098 Improvements in saved search management
2100 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2101 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2102 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2104 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2106 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2107 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2108 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2110 New face for crypto parts headers
2112 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2113 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2114 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2117 Use space as default thousands separator
2119 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2120 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2121 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2123 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2124 buttonized id: links
2126 New function notmuch-show-advance
2128 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2129 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2130 be bound to SPC with:
2132 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2134 Various performance improvements
2139 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2140 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2143 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2144 ===========================
2149 Fix crash in python bindings
2151 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2152 for some, but not all users.
2154 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2155 ===========================
2160 Fix `--help` argument
2162 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2163 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2164 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2166 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2167 =========================
2169 New build and testing features
2170 ------------------------------
2172 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2173 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2174 prerequisites is improved.
2176 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2178 New command-line features
2179 -------------------------
2181 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2183 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2184 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2187 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2189 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2190 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2191 favour of using stdout.
2193 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2195 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2196 limit the number of results shown.
2198 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2200 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2201 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2204 New emacs UI features
2205 ---------------------
2207 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2209 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2210 starting with "tag:".
2212 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2214 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2215 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2217 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2219 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2221 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2223 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2224 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2229 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2231 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2233 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2234 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2235 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2236 requires a database rebuild:
2238 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2239 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2241 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2243 New collection of add-on tools
2244 ------------------------------
2246 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2247 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2248 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2251 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2253 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2254 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2255 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2257 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2258 ========================
2260 New, general features
2261 ---------------------
2263 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2265 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2266 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2267 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2268 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2269 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2276 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2277 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2279 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2283 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2284 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2285 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2288 Python bindings changes
2289 -----------------------
2291 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2293 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2294 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2295 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2296 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2297 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2298 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2300 Ruby bindings changes
2301 ---------------------
2303 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2304 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2305 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2306 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2311 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2313 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2314 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2316 Reply formatting cleanup
2317 ------------------------
2319 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2320 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2322 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2323 ========================
2325 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2327 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2328 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2329 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2330 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2333 Improved Build system portability
2335 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2336 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2337 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2339 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2341 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2343 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2345 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2346 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2347 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2349 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2350 ========================
2352 Vim interface improvements
2353 --------------------------
2355 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2357 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2358 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2359 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2360 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2361 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2363 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2365 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2366 * fix compose temp file name
2368 Python Bindings changes
2369 -----------------------
2371 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2373 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2374 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2376 Build-System improvements
2377 -------------------------
2379 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2381 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2384 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2385 ==========================
2390 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2392 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2393 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2395 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2396 =======================
2398 New, general features
2399 ---------------------
2401 Folder-based searching
2403 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2404 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2405 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2409 For example, one might use things such as:
2415 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2416 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2418 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2419 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2420 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2421 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2423 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2424 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2425 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2428 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2429 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2431 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2433 Support for PGP/MIME
2435 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2436 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2437 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2439 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2441 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2442 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2444 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2445 notmuch will receive these tags.
2447 New command-line features
2448 -------------------------
2450 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2452 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2453 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2455 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2457 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2458 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2459 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2461 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2463 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2464 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2465 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2466 which parts a signature part applies).
2468 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2470 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2471 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2472 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2473 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2474 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2477 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2479 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2480 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2481 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2482 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2483 by translating it internally to the new call.
2485 Performance improvements
2486 ------------------------
2488 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2490 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2491 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2492 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2494 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2495 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2497 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2499 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2500 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2501 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2503 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2504 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2505 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2506 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2508 Faster initial indexing
2510 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2511 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2512 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2514 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2516 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2517 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2518 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2519 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2521 New emacs-interface features
2522 ----------------------------
2524 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2526 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2527 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2528 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2529 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2530 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2531 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2533 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2535 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2536 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2537 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2538 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2540 User-selectable From address
2542 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2543 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2544 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2545 will prompt for the from address to use.
2547 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2548 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2549 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2551 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2552 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2553 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2556 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2558 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2559 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2561 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2563 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2565 ----- Original Message -----
2567 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2568 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2569 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2570 citations work much like conventional citations.
2572 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2574 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2575 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2576 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2577 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2578 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2580 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2581 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2583 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2585 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2586 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2587 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2589 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2591 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2592 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2593 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2594 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2595 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2597 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2599 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2602 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2604 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2606 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2608 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2611 Vim interface improvements
2612 --------------------------
2614 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2616 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2617 * Implementing archive in show view
2618 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2619 * Add delete commands
2622 Bindings improvements
2623 ---------------------
2625 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2627 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2628 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2630 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2632 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2636 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2637 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2638 `list(Messages)` works now
2639 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2641 These allow, for example:
2643 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2645 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2647 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2653 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2655 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2658 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2660 New build-system features
2661 -------------------------
2663 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2665 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2666 the configure script from some other directory:
2673 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2675 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2676 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2677 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2678 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2679 manual invocation of configure.
2681 New test-suite feature
2682 ----------------------
2684 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2686 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2687 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2688 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2689 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2690 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2693 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2695 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2696 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2697 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2698 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2699 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2700 are updated to take advantage of this.
2702 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2704 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2705 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2706 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2707 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2713 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2715 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2716 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2717 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2719 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2721 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2723 to:user@elsewhere.com
2725 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2727 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2729 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2731 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2732 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2733 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2736 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2737 from the Received headers in some cases
2739 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2740 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2742 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2744 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2746 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2748 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2749 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2750 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2752 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2753 -------------------------
2755 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2757 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2758 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2759 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2761 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2763 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2764 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2765 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2768 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2770 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2771 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2772 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2773 fixed to avoid this bug.
2775 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2777 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2778 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2780 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2781 ========================
2783 New, general features
2784 ---------------------
2786 Maildir-flag synchronization
2788 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2789 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2798 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2800 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2801 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2802 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2803 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2805 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2806 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2807 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2808 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2811 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2813 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2814 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2815 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2817 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2818 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2820 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2821 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2823 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2824 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2825 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2827 New library features
2828 --------------------
2830 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2832 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2833 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2834 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2835 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2837 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2838 message with the new function:
2840 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2842 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2843 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2844 over all available filenames for a given message.
2846 New command-line features
2847 -------------------------
2849 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2851 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2852 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2853 access to the mail store itself.
2855 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2856 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2857 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2858 name of a script containing:
2860 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2862 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2863 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2869 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2871 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2873 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2875 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2876 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2877 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2878 now produces nothing).
2880 Emacs interface improvements
2881 ----------------------------
2883 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2885 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2887 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2889 Display current thread subject in a header line
2891 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2893 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2895 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2896 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2897 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2898 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2899 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2900 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2901 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2903 Vim interface improvements
2904 --------------------------
2906 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2908 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2909 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2915 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2917 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2918 ========================
2920 New command-line features
2921 -------------------------
2923 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2925 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2926 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2927 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2929 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2930 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2931 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2932 scripts. For example:
2934 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2935 <operations-on> "$file"
2938 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2940 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2941 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2942 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2943 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2944 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2945 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2947 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2949 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2950 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2951 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2952 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2954 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2956 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2957 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2958 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2959 default rather than Bcc.
2961 New library features
2962 --------------------
2964 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2966 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2967 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2972 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2974 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2975 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2976 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2977 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2978 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2979 notmuch customize interface.
2981 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2983 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2984 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2985 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2986 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2988 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2990 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2991 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2992 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2993 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2995 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2997 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2998 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2999 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3000 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3001 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3002 notmuch customize interface.
3004 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3006 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3007 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3008 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3009 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3010 notmuch customize interface.
3012 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3014 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3015 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3016 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3017 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3020 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3022 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3023 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3024 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3027 New build-system features
3028 -------------------------
3030 Various portability fixes have been applied
3032 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3033 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3034 more portable than ever before.
3036 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3038 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3039 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3040 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3042 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3043 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3044 automatically run ldconfig.
3046 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3047 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3048 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3050 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3051 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3052 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3053 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3055 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3057 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3058 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3059 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3060 used in the resulting Makefile.
3062 New test-suite features
3063 -----------------------
3065 New modularization of test suite
3067 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3068 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3069 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3070 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3071 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3072 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3073 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3074 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3076 New testing of emacs interface
3078 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3079 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3080 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3081 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3082 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3083 database via the FCC setting.
3088 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3090 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3091 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3092 persistent error of the form:
3094 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3096 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3097 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3099 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3101 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3102 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3103 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3105 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3107 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3108 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3109 parsing the notmuch results).
3111 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3113 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3116 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3117 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3118 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3123 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3125 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3126 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3127 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3128 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3129 the emacs interface.
3131 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3133 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3134 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3135 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3137 Python-binding fixes
3138 --------------------
3140 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3142 Debian-specific fixes
3143 ---------------------
3145 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3147 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3148 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3149 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3152 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3153 ==========================
3158 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3160 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3161 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3162 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3163 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3165 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3167 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3168 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3169 want notmuch to crash.
3174 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3176 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3177 directory does not exist
3182 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3184 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3185 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3187 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3188 ========================
3190 New command-line features
3191 -------------------------
3193 User-configurable tags for new messages
3195 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3196 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3197 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3198 to specify this value.
3200 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3202 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3203 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3204 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3206 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3208 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3209 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3211 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3213 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3214 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3215 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3216 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3217 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3220 Indication of author names that match a search
3222 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3223 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3224 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3225 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3226 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3227 messages in the thread are listed first.
3229 New: Python bindings
3230 --------------------
3232 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3233 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3234 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3235 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3237 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3238 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3239 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3242 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3243 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3244 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3246 Emacs interface improvements
3247 ----------------------------
3249 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3251 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3252 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3253 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3254 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3255 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3256 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3257 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3258 but without any of the disadvantages).
3260 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3261 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3262 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3265 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3266 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3267 instead running something like:
3269 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3271 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3272 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3273 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3276 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3278 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3279 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3280 tweaked by the user.
3282 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3283 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3284 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3287 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3288 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3289 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3292 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3294 This support currently relies on an external program,
3295 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3296 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3297 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3298 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3299 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3302 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3303 notmuch) is available via:
3305 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3307 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3308 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3309 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3311 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3313 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3314 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3315 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3316 making this automatic in a future release.
3318 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3320 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3321 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3322 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3323 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3324 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3325 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3328 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3330 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3331 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3332 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3334 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3336 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3337 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3338 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3340 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3341 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3342 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3343 other representation.
3345 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3346 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3349 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3351 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3352 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3353 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3355 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3356 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3357 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3359 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3361 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3362 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3363 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3364 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3365 to display the search result.
3367 More flexible handling of header visibility
3369 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3370 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3371 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3372 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3373 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3374 with the 'h' keybinding.
3376 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3377 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3378 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3380 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3382 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3384 Customizable formatting of search results
3386 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3387 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3388 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3390 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3392 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3394 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3399 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3401 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3402 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3403 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3404 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3410 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3412 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3413 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3415 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3417 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3418 accept are now all accepted.
3423 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3425 Better display of output from failed tests
3427 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3428 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3430 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3431 ========================
3433 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3434 detailed release notes this time!
3436 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3437 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3439 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3440 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3441 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3442 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3449 Better guessing of From: header
3451 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3452 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3453 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3454 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3455 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3458 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3460 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3461 guaranteed to match all messages.
3463 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3465 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3466 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3467 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3468 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3469 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3472 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3475 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3476 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3477 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3478 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3483 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3485 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3486 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3487 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3488 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3490 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3492 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3494 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3495 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3496 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3498 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3500 Previously, the user might see:
3502 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3506 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3508 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3509 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3510 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3511 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3513 Emacs client features
3514 ---------------------
3516 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3518 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3519 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3520 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3521 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3522 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3524 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3527 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3528 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3529 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3530 search with the '*' binding.
3532 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3534 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3535 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3538 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3540 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3541 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3542 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3544 Build-system features
3545 ---------------------
3547 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3549 Add support to configure for many standard options
3551 We include actual support for:
3553 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3555 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3557 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3558 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3560 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3561 separate "make install-emacs"
3563 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3565 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3566 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3567 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3569 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3572 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3573 ========================
3575 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3577 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3578 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3580 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3581 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3582 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3583 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3584 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3585 tags from messages in a thread.
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