1 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
6 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
11 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
13 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
14 ===========================
19 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`.
21 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
22 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
25 Command Line Interface
26 ----------------------
28 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`.
30 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes.
32 Fix bug in dump header.
34 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
35 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
36 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
41 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
43 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
44 =========================
49 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
51 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
54 Command Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
59 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
60 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
61 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
63 New default output format to 3
65 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
66 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
67 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
68 default format changes.
73 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
75 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
76 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
77 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
78 or tree view to resume.
80 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
81 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
82 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
85 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
86 they were when you postponed in the final message.
90 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
91 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
92 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
93 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
94 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
98 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
99 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
100 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
101 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
102 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
103 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
107 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
108 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
110 Stop display of application/* parts
112 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
113 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
114 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
115 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
116 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
117 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
118 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
119 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
122 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
124 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
125 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
126 only tagged the current thread.)
128 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
130 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
131 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
132 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
134 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
136 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
137 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
138 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
139 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
140 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
141 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
142 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
144 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
146 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
147 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
148 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
153 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
155 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
158 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
160 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
163 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
164 ===========================
169 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
171 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
172 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
173 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
176 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
177 ===========================
179 Command Line Interface
180 ----------------------
182 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
187 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
189 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
190 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
191 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
193 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
194 ===========================
199 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
200 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
202 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
203 ===========================
205 Command Line Interface
206 ----------------------
208 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
210 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
211 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
212 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
217 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
219 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
220 ===========================
222 Command Line Interface
223 ----------------------
225 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
230 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
232 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
233 ===========================
238 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
240 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
241 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
242 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
244 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
246 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
248 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
249 ===========================
254 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
256 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
261 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
263 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
264 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
265 the original colours.
267 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
268 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
270 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
272 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
273 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
274 bug, and hence the test.
276 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
277 =========================
279 General (Xapian 1.4+)
280 ---------------------
282 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
284 Support for single argument date: queries
286 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
288 Support for blocking opens
290 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
291 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
293 Support for named queries
295 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
296 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
297 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
304 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
305 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
306 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
307 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
309 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
311 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
316 Support for compile time options
318 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
319 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
322 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
324 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
325 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
326 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
327 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
328 scripts to ignore it.
333 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
335 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
336 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
337 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
339 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
340 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
341 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
342 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
343 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
344 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
345 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
347 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
348 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
351 Make internal address completion customizable
353 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
354 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
355 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
356 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
359 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
361 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
362 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
363 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
364 completion for the current buffer.
366 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
367 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
368 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
372 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
373 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
374 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
375 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
376 will be added instead.
378 Face customization is easier
380 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
381 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
382 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
383 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
385 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
390 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
395 Go bindings moved to contrib
397 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
399 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
401 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
402 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
404 The same issue occured with sort modes.
406 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
407 ===========================
414 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
415 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
417 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
419 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
421 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
422 ===========================
427 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
429 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
434 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
439 Use `env` to locate perl.
444 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
446 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
448 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
450 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
452 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
453 =========================
460 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
461 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
463 Limited support for S/MIME messages
465 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
466 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
467 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
472 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
473 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
474 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
476 Command Line Interface
477 ----------------------
479 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
481 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
486 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
491 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
493 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
494 parts are now included in replies.
496 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
497 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
498 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
499 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
501 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
503 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
505 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
507 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
508 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
509 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
510 forwards only the current message.
512 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
514 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
515 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
516 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
517 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
518 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
519 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
520 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
521 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
524 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
525 longer generate empty buffers
527 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
528 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
529 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
530 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
531 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
533 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
535 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
538 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
540 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
543 Address completion improvements
545 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
546 you previously configured one, customize the variable
547 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
548 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
549 interactive address completion.
551 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
553 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
554 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
555 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
560 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
561 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
562 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
568 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
569 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
570 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
571 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
572 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
573 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
575 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
576 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
577 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
578 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
579 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
580 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
582 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
583 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
585 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
586 =========================
591 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
594 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
596 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
597 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
598 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
600 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
601 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
603 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
604 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
605 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
607 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
609 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
610 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
611 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
612 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
613 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
614 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
619 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
620 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
623 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
626 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
628 Command Line Interface
629 ----------------------
631 Database revision tracking
633 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
634 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
635 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
636 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
638 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
640 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
641 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
642 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
643 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
644 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
645 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
646 manual page for further information.
651 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
653 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
654 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
656 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
658 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
659 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
660 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
662 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
664 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
666 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
667 customization as well.
669 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
671 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
673 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
675 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
677 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
678 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
679 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
680 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
682 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
684 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
685 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
686 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
687 this variable to 10000.
692 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
693 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
695 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
697 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
698 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
699 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
700 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
701 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
702 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
703 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
704 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
705 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
708 Database revision tracking
710 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
711 query parser and the new function
712 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
714 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
718 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
719 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
720 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
721 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
726 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
728 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
729 ===========================
734 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
736 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
737 ===========================
742 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
744 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
745 =========================
747 Command-Line Interface
748 ----------------------
750 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
752 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
753 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
754 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
756 Path to gpg is now configurable
758 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
759 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
764 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
766 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
771 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
776 Support messages without Message-IDs.
781 Undeprecate single message mboxes
783 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
784 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
786 New error logging facility
788 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
789 output formerly printed to stderr.
791 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
793 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
795 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
797 Fix for rounding of seconds
802 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
804 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
805 docmumentation has been removed.
807 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
809 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
810 some material from the relicensed wiki.
815 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
816 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
817 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
822 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
823 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
824 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
825 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
826 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
827 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
830 git checkout config origin/config
832 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
834 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
835 =========================
840 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
841 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
842 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
843 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
844 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
845 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
846 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
848 Command-Line Interface
849 ----------------------
851 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
853 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
854 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
855 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
856 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
857 script callers should still check the return value.
859 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
861 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
862 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
863 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
864 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
865 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
866 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
867 and returning success even if indexing fails).
869 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
871 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
872 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
873 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
875 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
877 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
878 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
879 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
880 currently unmaintained.
882 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
884 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
885 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
886 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
887 have at least `N` files associated with them.
889 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
891 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
892 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
893 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
894 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
895 count of duplicate addresses.
900 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
902 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
903 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
904 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
907 Improved handling of the unread tag
909 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
910 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
911 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
912 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
913 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
914 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
915 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
917 Expanded default saved search settings
919 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
920 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
922 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
924 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
925 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
926 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
928 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
930 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
931 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
932 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
933 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
934 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
935 the variable for details.
940 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
942 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
943 Representing these independently of the database version number will
944 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
945 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
947 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
949 Previously, library users were required to call
950 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
951 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
952 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
953 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
954 too out of date for that API.
956 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
958 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
959 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
960 atomic section will be aborted.
962 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
963 `notmuch_database_destroy`
965 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
967 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
968 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
969 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
970 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
971 messages into the same thread.
976 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
977 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
978 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
979 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
980 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
981 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
986 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
987 from the config file. Use something like:
991 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
992 "footer": "</body></html>",
1001 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1006 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1007 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1008 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1010 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1011 ===========================
1016 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1018 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1020 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1022 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1023 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1025 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1027 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1030 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1031 ===========================
1033 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1038 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1040 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1042 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1044 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1046 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1052 Use --quick when starting emacs
1054 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1056 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1058 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1060 Command-Line Interface
1061 ----------------------
1063 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1064 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1069 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1071 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1072 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1074 Fix for phrase indexing
1076 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1077 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1078 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1083 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1085 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1086 unintentionally removed.
1088 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1089 =========================
1094 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1095 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1096 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1097 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1098 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1099 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1100 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1101 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1102 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1108 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1110 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1111 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1112 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1113 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1114 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1115 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1116 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1117 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1119 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1121 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1122 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1123 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1124 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1127 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1129 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1130 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1131 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1132 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1133 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1134 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1135 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1140 Notmuch database upgrade
1142 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1143 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1144 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1145 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1146 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1147 released version of Notmuch before now.
1149 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1151 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1152 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1153 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1154 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1156 Message header parsing changes
1158 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1159 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1160 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1161 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1162 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1163 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1165 Command-Line Interface
1166 ----------------------
1168 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1170 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1172 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1174 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1176 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1178 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1179 user does not want it.
1181 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1183 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1184 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1185 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1186 support formatted output.
1188 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1190 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1191 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1192 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1200 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1201 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1202 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1203 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1204 `~/.emacs` with these.
1206 Changed format for saved searches
1208 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1209 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1210 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1211 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1214 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1215 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1216 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1217 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1219 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1220 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1221 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1223 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1224 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1225 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1226 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1227 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1229 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1231 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1232 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1233 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1235 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1237 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1238 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1239 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1240 message had been unread).
1242 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1243 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1244 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1245 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1247 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1248 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1249 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1251 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1252 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1253 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1254 to tags already present.
1258 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1259 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1260 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1261 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1262 these differ from each other.
1263 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1265 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1267 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1268 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1269 for these Emacs versions.
1271 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1273 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1274 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1276 Bug fixes for sender identities
1278 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1279 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1280 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1282 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1284 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1285 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1286 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1287 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1289 Reply pushes mark before signature
1291 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1292 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1293 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1295 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1297 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1298 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1304 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1305 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1307 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1308 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1309 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1310 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1312 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1313 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1314 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1315 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1316 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1318 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1320 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1321 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1323 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1324 =========================
1326 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1327 ---------------------------------------
1329 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1330 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1331 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1332 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1333 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1334 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1335 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1339 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1340 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1342 Command-Line Interface
1343 ----------------------
1345 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1347 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1348 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1349 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1350 print for each message.
1352 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1353 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1354 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1355 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1357 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1359 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1360 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1361 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1363 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1365 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1366 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1367 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1368 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1370 `notmuch compact` command
1372 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1373 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1374 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1375 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1376 move the compacted database into place.
1381 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1383 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1384 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1385 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1386 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1387 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1388 and multiple threads.
1390 Using `notmuch-tree`
1392 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1394 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1395 search, show and tree mode itself)
1397 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1400 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1401 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1403 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1405 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1406 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1407 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1408 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1409 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1410 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1411 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1413 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1415 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1416 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1417 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1418 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1419 thread when the search was performed.
1421 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1423 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1424 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1425 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1427 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1429 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1430 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1433 Built-in help improvements
1435 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1436 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1437 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1439 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1441 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1442 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1443 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1445 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1447 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1448 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1450 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1452 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1453 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1454 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1455 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1457 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1459 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1460 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1461 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1462 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1464 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1466 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1467 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1468 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1470 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1472 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1473 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1474 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1476 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1478 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1479 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1480 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1481 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1482 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1484 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1486 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1487 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1488 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1489 the body part of the message.
1494 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1495 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1496 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1498 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1499 =========================
1501 Command-Line Interface
1502 ----------------------
1504 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1506 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1507 folder and notmuch index.
1509 `notmuch count --batch` option
1511 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1512 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1514 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1516 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1517 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1518 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1521 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1523 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1524 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1525 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1526 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1527 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1530 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1532 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1533 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1535 Top level option to specify configuration file
1537 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1538 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1540 Bash command-line completion
1542 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1543 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1544 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1545 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1546 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1547 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1548 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1549 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1550 bash-completion package.
1552 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1557 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1559 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1560 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1561 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1562 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1563 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1564 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1565 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1566 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1568 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1570 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1571 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1572 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1574 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1576 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1577 previous thread in the search results.
1579 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1581 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1582 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1584 Faster search and show
1586 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1587 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1588 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1589 threads should show faster.
1593 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1594 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1595 in question was now removed from this release.
1600 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1601 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1606 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1608 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1609 ===========================
1614 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1616 Internal test framework changes
1617 -------------------------------
1619 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1620 being unimplemented.
1622 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1623 ===========================
1625 Internal test framework changes
1626 -------------------------------
1628 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1629 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1631 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1632 =========================
1637 Date range search support
1639 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1640 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1641 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1642 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1643 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1646 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1648 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1649 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1650 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1651 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1652 but may be removed in a future release.
1654 Command-Line Interface
1655 ----------------------
1657 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1659 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1660 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1662 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1664 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1665 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1666 officially deprecated.
1668 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1670 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1671 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1672 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1674 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1676 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1677 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1680 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1681 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1682 dump/restore format.
1684 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1686 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1687 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1688 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1690 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1692 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1693 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1694 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1696 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1698 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1699 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1700 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1701 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1706 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1708 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1709 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1710 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1711 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1713 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1715 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1716 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1717 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1718 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1719 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1720 the behavior of this, see
1721 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1722 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1724 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1725 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1726 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1728 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1730 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1731 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1734 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1736 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1737 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1738 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1739 simply displayed in place of the message.
1741 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1743 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1744 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1746 Improved text/calendar content handling
1748 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1749 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1750 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1751 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1753 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1755 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1756 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1757 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1758 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1760 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1762 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1763 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1764 for HTML email containing images.
1766 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1768 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1770 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1772 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1775 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1777 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1778 the point where it was.
1780 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1782 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1783 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1784 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1785 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1786 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1788 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1790 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1791 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1792 thread instead of the message id.
1794 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1795 -----------------------------
1797 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1798 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1799 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1800 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1801 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1802 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1803 further details and installation.
1808 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1810 Internal test framework changes
1811 -------------------------------
1813 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1815 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1816 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1817 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1818 can result in buggy behavior.
1820 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1821 =========================
1826 Maildir tag synchronization
1828 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1829 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1830 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1831 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1832 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1833 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1836 Command-Line Interface
1837 ----------------------
1839 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1840 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1841 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1842 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1843 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1849 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1851 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1853 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1854 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1855 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1857 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1859 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1860 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1861 span multiple lines.
1863 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1865 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1866 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1867 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1868 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1869 inside the result or message.
1871 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1873 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1874 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1876 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1877 user-specified formatting
1879 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1880 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1881 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1882 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1883 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1885 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1886 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1888 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1889 ===========================
1894 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1895 compilation error for this contrib package.
1897 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1898 ===========================
1903 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1905 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1906 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1907 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1908 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1910 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1911 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1914 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1915 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1916 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1917 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1920 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1922 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1925 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1926 =========================
1928 Command-Line Interface
1929 ----------------------
1933 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1934 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1935 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1936 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1938 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1939 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1940 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1941 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1945 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1946 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1948 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1949 tag in your query, for example:
1951 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1953 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1954 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1956 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1957 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1959 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1961 Raw show format changes
1963 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1964 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1965 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1966 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1967 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1968 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1969 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1970 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1972 Listing configuration items
1974 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1980 Changes to tagging interface
1982 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1983 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1984 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1985 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1986 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1987 for more information.
1989 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1990 may need to update in custom configurations.
1992 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1994 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1995 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1996 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1997 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2000 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2001 -----------------------------
2003 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2004 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2005 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2006 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2007 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2008 contrib/ from now on.
2013 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2014 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2016 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2017 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2019 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2020 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2021 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2023 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2024 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2026 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2027 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2028 returning the new database object or directory object.
2035 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2036 compatible with go 1.
2038 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2039 =========================
2041 Command-Line Interface
2042 ----------------------
2046 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2047 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2048 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2049 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2051 Mail store folder/file ignore
2053 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2054 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2055 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2057 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2058 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2060 Unified help and manual pages
2062 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2063 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2066 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2068 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2069 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2077 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2078 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2079 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2080 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2082 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2084 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2085 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2087 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2090 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2091 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2092 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2094 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2096 should be changed to:
2098 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2100 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2102 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2103 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2105 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2107 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2108 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2109 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2110 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2111 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2112 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2116 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2117 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2118 of Mailing List Archives.
2120 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2122 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2123 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2126 Show view archiving key binding changes
2128 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2129 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2130 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2131 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2132 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2135 Support text/calendar MIME type
2137 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2140 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2142 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2143 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2144 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2145 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2147 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2149 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2150 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2151 messages blue by default in the search view.
2155 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2156 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2163 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2166 Python bindings changes
2167 -----------------------
2169 Python 3.2 compatibility
2171 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2173 Added missing unicode conversions
2175 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2176 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2177 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2182 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2184 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2185 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2186 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2187 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2188 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2190 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2191 ===========================
2196 Fix error handling in python bindings
2198 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2199 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2200 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2201 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2203 Quote MML tags in replies
2205 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2206 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2207 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2208 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2209 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2210 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2211 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2212 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2214 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2215 =========================
2217 Command-Line Interface
2218 ----------------------
2222 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2223 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2224 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2225 importing new messages into the database.
2227 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2229 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2230 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2231 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2236 Automatic tag query optimization
2238 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2239 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2240 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2242 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2244 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2245 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2246 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2251 Reduction of memory leaks
2253 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2254 and fixed in this release.
2261 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2262 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2263 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2266 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2268 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2269 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2270 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2273 Improvements in saved search management
2275 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2276 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2277 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2279 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2281 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2282 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2283 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2285 New face for crypto parts headers
2287 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2288 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2289 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2292 Use space as default thousands separator
2294 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2295 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2296 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2298 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2299 buttonized id: links
2301 New function notmuch-show-advance
2303 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2304 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2305 be bound to SPC with:
2307 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2309 Various performance improvements
2314 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2315 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2318 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2319 ===========================
2324 Fix crash in python bindings
2326 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2327 for some, but not all users.
2329 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2330 ===========================
2335 Fix `--help` argument
2337 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2338 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2339 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2341 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2342 =========================
2344 New build and testing features
2345 ------------------------------
2347 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2348 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2349 prerequisites is improved.
2351 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2353 New command-line features
2354 -------------------------
2356 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2358 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2359 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2362 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2364 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2365 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2366 favour of using stdout.
2368 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2370 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2371 limit the number of results shown.
2373 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2375 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2376 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2379 New emacs UI features
2380 ---------------------
2382 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2384 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2385 starting with "tag:".
2387 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2389 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2390 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2392 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2394 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2396 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2398 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2399 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2404 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2406 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2408 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2409 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2410 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2411 requires a database rebuild:
2413 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2414 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2416 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2418 New collection of add-on tools
2419 ------------------------------
2421 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2422 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2423 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2426 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2428 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2429 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2430 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2432 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2433 ========================
2435 New, general features
2436 ---------------------
2438 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2440 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2441 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2442 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2443 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2444 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2451 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2452 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2454 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2458 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2459 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2460 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2463 Python bindings changes
2464 -----------------------
2466 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2468 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2469 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2470 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2471 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2472 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2473 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2475 Ruby bindings changes
2476 ---------------------
2478 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2479 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2480 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2481 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2486 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2488 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2489 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2491 Reply formatting cleanup
2492 ------------------------
2494 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2495 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2497 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2498 ========================
2500 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2502 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2503 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2504 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2505 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2508 Improved Build system portability
2510 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2511 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2512 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2514 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2516 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2518 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2520 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2521 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2522 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2524 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2525 ========================
2527 Vim interface improvements
2528 --------------------------
2530 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2532 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2533 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2534 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2535 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2536 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2538 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2540 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2541 * fix compose temp file name
2543 Python Bindings changes
2544 -----------------------
2546 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2548 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2549 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2551 Build-System improvements
2552 -------------------------
2554 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2556 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2559 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2560 ==========================
2565 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2567 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2568 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2570 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2571 =======================
2573 New, general features
2574 ---------------------
2576 Folder-based searching
2578 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2579 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2580 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2584 For example, one might use things such as:
2590 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2591 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2593 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2594 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2595 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2596 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2598 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2599 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2600 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2603 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2604 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2606 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2608 Support for PGP/MIME
2610 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2611 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2612 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2614 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2616 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2617 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2619 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2620 notmuch will receive these tags.
2622 New command-line features
2623 -------------------------
2625 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2627 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2628 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2630 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2632 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2633 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2634 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2636 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2638 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2639 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2640 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2641 which parts a signature part applies).
2643 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2645 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2646 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2647 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2648 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2649 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2652 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2654 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2655 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2656 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2657 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2658 by translating it internally to the new call.
2660 Performance improvements
2661 ------------------------
2663 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2665 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2666 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2667 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2669 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2670 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2672 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2674 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2675 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2676 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2678 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2679 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2680 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2681 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2683 Faster initial indexing
2685 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2686 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2687 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2689 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2691 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2692 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2693 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2694 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2696 New emacs-interface features
2697 ----------------------------
2699 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2701 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2702 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2703 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2704 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2705 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2706 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2708 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2710 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2711 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2712 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2713 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2715 User-selectable From address
2717 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2718 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2719 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2720 will prompt for the from address to use.
2722 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2723 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2724 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2726 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2727 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2728 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2731 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2733 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2734 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2736 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2738 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2740 ----- Original Message -----
2742 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2743 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2744 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2745 citations work much like conventional citations.
2747 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2749 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2750 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2751 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2752 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2753 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2755 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2756 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2758 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2760 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2761 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2762 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2764 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2766 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2767 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2768 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2769 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2770 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2772 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2774 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2777 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2779 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2781 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2783 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2786 Vim interface improvements
2787 --------------------------
2789 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2791 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2792 * Implementing archive in show view
2793 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2794 * Add delete commands
2797 Bindings improvements
2798 ---------------------
2800 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2802 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2803 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2805 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2807 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2811 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2812 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2813 `list(Messages)` works now
2814 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2816 These allow, for example:
2818 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2820 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2822 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2828 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2830 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2833 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2835 New build-system features
2836 -------------------------
2838 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2840 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2841 the configure script from some other directory:
2848 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2850 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2851 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2852 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2853 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2854 manual invocation of configure.
2856 New test-suite feature
2857 ----------------------
2859 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2861 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2862 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2863 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2864 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2865 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2868 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2870 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2871 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2872 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2873 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2874 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2875 are updated to take advantage of this.
2877 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2879 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2880 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2881 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2882 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2888 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2890 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2891 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2892 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2894 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2896 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2898 to:user@elsewhere.com
2900 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2902 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2904 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2906 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2907 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2908 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2911 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2912 from the Received headers in some cases
2914 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2915 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2917 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2919 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2921 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2923 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2924 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2925 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2927 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2928 -------------------------
2930 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2932 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2933 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2934 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2936 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2938 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2939 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2940 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2943 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2945 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2946 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2947 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2948 fixed to avoid this bug.
2950 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2952 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2953 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2955 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2956 ========================
2958 New, general features
2959 ---------------------
2961 Maildir-flag synchronization
2963 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2964 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2973 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2975 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2976 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2977 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2978 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2980 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2981 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2982 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2983 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2986 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2988 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2989 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2990 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2992 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2993 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2995 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2996 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2998 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2999 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3000 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3002 New library features
3003 --------------------
3005 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3007 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3008 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3009 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3010 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3012 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3013 message with the new function:
3015 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3017 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3018 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3019 over all available filenames for a given message.
3021 New command-line features
3022 -------------------------
3024 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3026 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3027 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3028 access to the mail store itself.
3030 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3031 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3032 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3033 name of a script containing:
3035 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3037 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3038 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3044 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3046 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3048 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3050 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3051 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3052 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3053 now produces nothing).
3055 Emacs interface improvements
3056 ----------------------------
3058 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3060 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3062 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3064 Display current thread subject in a header line
3066 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3068 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3070 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3071 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3072 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3073 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3074 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3075 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3076 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3078 Vim interface improvements
3079 --------------------------
3081 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3083 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3084 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3090 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3092 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3093 ========================
3095 New command-line features
3096 -------------------------
3098 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3100 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3101 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3102 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3104 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3105 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3106 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3107 scripts. For example:
3109 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3110 <operations-on> "$file"
3113 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3115 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3116 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3117 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3118 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3119 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3120 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3122 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3124 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3125 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3126 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3127 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3129 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3131 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3132 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3133 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3134 default rather than Bcc.
3136 New library features
3137 --------------------
3139 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3141 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3142 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3147 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3149 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3150 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3151 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3152 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3153 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3154 notmuch customize interface.
3156 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3158 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3159 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3160 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3161 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3163 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3165 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3166 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3167 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3168 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3170 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3172 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3173 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3174 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3175 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3176 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3177 notmuch customize interface.
3179 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3181 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3182 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3183 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3184 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3185 notmuch customize interface.
3187 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3189 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3190 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3191 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3192 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3195 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3197 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3198 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3199 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3202 New build-system features
3203 -------------------------
3205 Various portability fixes have been applied
3207 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3208 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3209 more portable than ever before.
3211 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3213 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3214 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3215 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3217 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3218 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3219 automatically run ldconfig.
3221 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3222 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3223 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3225 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3226 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3227 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3228 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3230 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3232 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3233 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3234 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3235 used in the resulting Makefile.
3237 New test-suite features
3238 -----------------------
3240 New modularization of test suite
3242 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3243 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3244 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3245 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3246 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3247 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3248 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3249 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3251 New testing of emacs interface
3253 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3254 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3255 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3256 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3257 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3258 database via the FCC setting.
3263 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3265 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3266 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3267 persistent error of the form:
3269 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3271 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3272 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3274 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3276 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3277 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3278 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3280 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3282 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3283 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3284 parsing the notmuch results).
3286 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3288 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3291 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3292 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3293 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3298 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3300 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3301 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3302 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3303 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3304 the emacs interface.
3306 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3308 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3309 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3310 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3312 Python-binding fixes
3313 --------------------
3315 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3317 Debian-specific fixes
3318 ---------------------
3320 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3322 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3323 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3324 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3327 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3328 ==========================
3333 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3335 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3336 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3337 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3338 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3340 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3342 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3343 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3344 want notmuch to crash.
3349 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3351 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3352 directory does not exist
3357 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3359 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3360 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3362 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3363 ========================
3365 New command-line features
3366 -------------------------
3368 User-configurable tags for new messages
3370 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3371 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3372 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3373 to specify this value.
3375 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3377 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3378 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3379 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3381 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3383 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3384 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3386 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3388 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3389 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3390 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3391 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3392 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3395 Indication of author names that match a search
3397 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3398 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3399 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3400 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3401 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3402 messages in the thread are listed first.
3404 New: Python bindings
3405 --------------------
3407 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3408 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3409 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3410 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3412 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3413 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3414 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3417 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3418 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3419 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3421 Emacs interface improvements
3422 ----------------------------
3424 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3426 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3427 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3428 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3429 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3430 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3431 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3432 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3433 but without any of the disadvantages).
3435 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3436 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3437 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3440 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3441 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3442 instead running something like:
3444 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3446 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3447 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3448 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3451 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3453 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3454 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3455 tweaked by the user.
3457 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3458 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3459 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3462 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3463 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3464 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3467 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3469 This support currently relies on an external program,
3470 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3471 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3472 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3473 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3474 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3477 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3478 notmuch) is available via:
3480 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3482 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3483 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3484 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3486 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3488 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3489 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3490 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3491 making this automatic in a future release.
3493 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3495 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3496 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3497 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3498 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3499 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3500 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3503 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3505 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3506 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3507 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3509 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3511 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3512 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3513 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3515 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3516 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3517 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3518 other representation.
3520 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3521 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3524 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3526 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3527 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3528 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3530 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3531 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3532 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3534 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3536 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3537 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3538 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3539 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3540 to display the search result.
3542 More flexible handling of header visibility
3544 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3545 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3546 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3547 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3548 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3549 with the 'h' keybinding.
3551 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3552 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3553 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3555 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3557 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3559 Customizable formatting of search results
3561 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3562 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3563 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3565 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3567 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3569 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3574 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3576 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3577 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3578 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3579 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3585 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3587 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3588 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3590 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3592 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3593 accept are now all accepted.
3598 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3600 Better display of output from failed tests
3602 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3603 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3605 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3606 ========================
3608 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3609 detailed release notes this time!
3611 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3612 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3614 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3615 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3616 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3617 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3624 Better guessing of From: header
3626 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3627 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3628 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3629 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3630 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3633 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3635 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3636 guaranteed to match all messages.
3638 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3640 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3641 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3642 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3643 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3644 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3647 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3650 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3651 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3652 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3653 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3658 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3660 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3661 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3662 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3663 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3665 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3667 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3669 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3670 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3671 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3673 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3675 Previously, the user might see:
3677 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3681 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3683 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3684 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3685 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3686 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3688 Emacs client features
3689 ---------------------
3691 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3693 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3694 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3695 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3696 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3697 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3699 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3702 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3703 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3704 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3705 search with the '*' binding.
3707 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3709 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3710 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3713 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3715 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3716 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3717 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3719 Build-system features
3720 ---------------------
3722 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3724 Add support to configure for many standard options
3726 We include actual support for:
3728 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3730 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3732 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3733 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3735 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3736 separate "make install-emacs"
3738 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3740 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3741 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3742 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3744 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3747 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3748 ========================
3750 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3752 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3753 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3755 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3756 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3757 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3758 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3759 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3760 tags from messages in a thread.
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