1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
9 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
10 =========================
15 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
16 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
17 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
20 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
26 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
27 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
28 notmuch-properties(7)).
33 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
34 has protected headers (see
35 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
36 notmuch-properties(7)).
41 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
43 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
44 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
50 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
53 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
54 ===========================
59 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
61 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
66 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
68 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
69 ===========================
74 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
75 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
77 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
78 ===========================
83 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
85 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
86 =========================
91 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
92 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
95 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
96 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
97 the set of headers to be indexed.
99 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
102 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
103 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
104 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
107 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
108 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
109 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
111 Command Line Interface
112 ----------------------
114 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
117 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
119 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
120 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
121 more details about what is included there. This status includes
122 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
127 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
128 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
130 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
132 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
134 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
136 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
138 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
141 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
143 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
144 and may be removed in a future release.
146 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
152 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
154 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
155 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
160 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
161 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
162 cryptography support.
167 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
168 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
169 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
171 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
172 ===========================
174 Command line interface
175 ----------------------
177 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
178 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
180 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
181 ===========================
186 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
187 by message properties.
192 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
194 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
195 ===========================
200 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
205 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
206 now needed to build this documentation.
208 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
209 ===========================
214 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
215 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
217 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
218 =========================
225 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
226 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
227 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
228 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
229 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
232 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
234 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
235 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
236 correct encoding for such messages.
238 Command Line Interface
239 ----------------------
241 Support relative database paths
243 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
244 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
245 to $HOME of the invoking user.
250 Improve stderr handling
252 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
253 needed on e.g. macOS.
255 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
257 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
262 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
263 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
269 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
270 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
276 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
277 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
280 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
281 =========================
286 Add support for thread:{} queries
288 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
289 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
290 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
292 Command Line Interface
293 ----------------------
295 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
297 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
299 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
301 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
302 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
303 does not have to be available during message receipt.
308 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
314 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
315 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
317 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
318 ===========================
323 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
325 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
326 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
327 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
329 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
331 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
332 related abort in `notmuch show`.
334 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
335 ===========================
340 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
341 better late than never.
344 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
345 =========================
347 Command Line Interface
348 ----------------------
350 Support for re-indexing existing messages
352 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
353 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
354 change the way specific messages are indexed.
356 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
357 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
358 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
360 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
362 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
364 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
366 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
367 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
368 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
369 the setting of `new.tags`.
371 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
373 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
375 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
377 This inserts into the top level folder.
379 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
381 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
383 New option --output=address for notmuch address
385 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
387 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
389 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
390 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
391 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
393 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
398 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
400 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
401 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
402 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
403 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
404 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
405 config set index.decrypt true".
407 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
408 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
409 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
410 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
411 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
412 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
413 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
414 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
416 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
417 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
418 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
419 this feature without considering the security of your index.
424 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
426 Use make-process when available
428 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
429 notmuch command without using temporary files.
434 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
436 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
437 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
438 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
439 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
441 New functions to count files
443 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
444 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
446 New function to remove properties
448 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
449 drop all properties with a common pattern:
450 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
452 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
454 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
455 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
456 possibility of NULL was not documented.
458 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
460 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
461 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
462 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
463 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
464 operator may decide to change from message to message.
471 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
472 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
473 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
479 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
481 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
482 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
484 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
486 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
488 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
490 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
495 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
496 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
498 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
499 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
500 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
501 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
502 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
503 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
508 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
510 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
511 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
512 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
513 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
515 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
516 ===========================
521 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
522 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
525 Command Line Interface
526 ----------------------
528 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
529 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
532 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
533 ===========================
535 Command Line Interface
536 ----------------------
538 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
539 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
544 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
547 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
548 ===========================
553 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
556 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
557 =========================
562 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
564 Skip HTML tags when indexing
566 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
568 Command Line Interface
569 ----------------------
571 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
573 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
578 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
580 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
581 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
584 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
589 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
591 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
592 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
594 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
596 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
597 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
600 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
602 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
604 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
606 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
607 ===========================
609 Command Line Interface
610 ----------------------
612 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
617 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
619 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
620 ===========================
625 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
627 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
628 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
631 Command Line Interface
632 ----------------------
634 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
636 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
638 Fix bug in dump header
640 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
641 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
642 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
647 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
649 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
650 =========================
655 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
657 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
660 Command Line Interface
661 ----------------------
663 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
665 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
666 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
667 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
669 New default output format to 3
671 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
672 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
673 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
674 default format changes.
679 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
681 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
682 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
683 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
684 or tree view to resume.
686 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
687 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
688 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
691 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
692 they were when you postponed in the final message.
696 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
697 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
698 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
699 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
700 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
704 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
705 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
706 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
707 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
708 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
709 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
713 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
714 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
716 Stop display of `application/*` parts
718 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
719 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
720 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
721 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
722 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
723 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
724 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
725 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
728 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
730 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
731 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
732 only tagged the current thread.)
734 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
736 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
737 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
738 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
740 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
742 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
743 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
744 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
745 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
746 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
747 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
748 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
750 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
752 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
753 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
754 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
759 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
761 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
764 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
766 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
769 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
770 ===========================
775 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
777 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
778 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
779 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
782 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
783 ===========================
785 Command Line Interface
786 ----------------------
788 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
793 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
795 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
796 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
797 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
799 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
800 ===========================
805 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
806 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
808 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
809 ===========================
811 Command Line Interface
812 ----------------------
814 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
816 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
817 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
818 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
823 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
825 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
826 ===========================
828 Command Line Interface
829 ----------------------
831 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
836 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
838 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
839 ===========================
844 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
846 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
847 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
848 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
850 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
852 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
854 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
855 ===========================
860 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
862 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
867 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
869 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
870 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
871 the original colours.
873 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
874 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
876 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
878 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
879 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
880 bug, and hence the test.
882 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
883 =========================
885 General (Xapian 1.4+)
886 ---------------------
888 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
890 Support for single argument date: queries
892 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
894 Support for blocking opens
896 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
897 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
899 Support for named queries
901 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
902 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
903 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
910 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
911 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
912 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
913 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
915 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
917 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
922 Support for compile time options
924 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
925 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
928 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
930 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
931 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
932 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
933 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
934 scripts to ignore it.
939 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
941 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
942 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
943 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
945 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
946 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
947 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
948 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
949 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
950 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
951 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
953 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
954 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
957 Make internal address completion customizable
959 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
960 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
961 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
962 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
965 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
967 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
968 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
969 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
970 completion for the current buffer.
972 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
973 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
974 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
978 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
979 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
980 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
981 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
982 will be added instead.
984 Face customization is easier
986 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
987 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
988 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
989 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
991 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
996 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1001 Go bindings moved to contrib
1003 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1005 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1007 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1008 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1010 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1012 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1013 ===========================
1020 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1021 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1023 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1025 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1027 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1028 ===========================
1033 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1035 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1040 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1045 Use `env` to locate perl.
1050 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1052 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1054 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1056 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1058 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1059 =========================
1066 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1067 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1069 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1071 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1072 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1073 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1078 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1079 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1080 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1082 Command Line Interface
1083 ----------------------
1085 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1087 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1092 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1097 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1099 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1100 parts are now included in replies.
1102 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1103 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1104 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1105 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1107 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1109 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1111 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1113 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1114 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1115 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1116 forwards only the current message.
1118 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1120 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1121 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1122 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1123 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1124 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1125 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1126 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1127 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1130 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1131 longer generate empty buffers
1133 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1134 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1135 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1136 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1137 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1139 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1141 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1144 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1146 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1149 Address completion improvements
1151 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1152 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1153 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1154 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1155 interactive address completion.
1157 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1159 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1160 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1161 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1166 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1167 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1168 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1174 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1175 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1176 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1177 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1178 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1179 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1181 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1182 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1183 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1184 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1185 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1186 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1188 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1189 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1191 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1192 =========================
1197 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1200 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1202 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1203 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1204 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1206 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1207 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1209 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1210 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1211 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1213 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1215 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1216 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1217 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1218 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1219 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1220 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1225 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1226 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1229 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1230 option to configure.
1232 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1234 Command Line Interface
1235 ----------------------
1237 Database revision tracking
1239 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1240 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1241 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1242 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1244 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1246 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1247 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1248 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1249 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1250 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1251 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1252 manual page for further information.
1257 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1259 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1260 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1262 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1264 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1265 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1266 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1268 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1270 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1272 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1273 customization as well.
1275 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1277 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1279 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1281 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1283 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1284 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1285 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1286 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1288 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1290 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1291 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1292 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1293 this variable to 10000.
1298 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1299 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1301 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1303 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1304 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1305 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1306 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1307 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1308 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1309 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1310 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1311 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1314 Database revision tracking
1316 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1317 query parser and the new function
1318 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1320 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1322 Deprecated functions
1324 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1325 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1326 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1327 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1332 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1334 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1335 ===========================
1340 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1342 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1343 ===========================
1348 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1350 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1351 =========================
1353 Command-Line Interface
1354 ----------------------
1356 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1358 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1359 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1360 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1362 Path to gpg is now configurable
1364 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1365 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1370 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1372 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1377 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1382 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1387 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1389 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1390 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1392 New error logging facility
1394 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1395 output formerly printed to stderr.
1397 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1399 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1401 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1403 Fix for rounding of seconds
1408 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1410 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1411 documentation has been removed.
1413 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1415 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1416 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1421 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1422 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1423 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1428 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1429 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1430 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1431 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1432 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1433 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1436 git checkout config origin/config
1438 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1440 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1441 =========================
1446 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1447 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1448 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1449 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1450 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1451 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1452 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1454 Command-Line Interface
1455 ----------------------
1457 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1459 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1460 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1461 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1462 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1463 script callers should still check the return value.
1465 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1467 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1468 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1469 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1470 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1471 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1472 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1473 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1475 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1477 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1478 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1479 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1481 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1483 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1484 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1485 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1486 currently unmaintained.
1488 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1490 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1491 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1492 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1493 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1495 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1497 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1498 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1499 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1500 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1501 count of duplicate addresses.
1506 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1508 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1509 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1510 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1513 Improved handling of the unread tag
1515 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1516 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1517 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1518 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1519 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1520 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1521 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1523 Expanded default saved search settings
1525 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1526 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1528 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1530 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1531 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1532 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1534 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1536 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1537 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1538 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1539 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1540 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1541 the variable for details.
1546 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1548 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1549 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1550 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1551 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1553 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1555 Previously, library users were required to call
1556 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1557 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1558 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1559 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1560 too out of date for that API.
1562 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1564 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1565 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1566 atomic section will be aborted.
1568 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1569 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1571 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1573 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1574 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1575 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1576 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1577 messages into the same thread.
1582 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1583 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1584 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1585 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1586 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1587 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1592 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1593 from the config file. Use something like:
1597 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1598 "footer": "</body></html>",
1607 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1612 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1613 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1614 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1616 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1617 ===========================
1622 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1624 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1626 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1628 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1629 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1631 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1633 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1636 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1637 ===========================
1639 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1644 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1646 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1648 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1650 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1652 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1658 Use --quick when starting emacs
1660 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1662 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1664 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1666 Command-Line Interface
1667 ----------------------
1669 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1670 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1675 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1677 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1678 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1680 Fix for phrase indexing
1682 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1683 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1684 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1689 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1691 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1692 unintentionally removed.
1694 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1695 =========================
1700 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1701 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1702 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1703 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1704 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1705 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1706 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1707 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1708 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1714 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1716 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1717 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1718 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1719 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1720 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1721 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1722 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1723 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1725 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1727 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1728 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1729 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1730 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1733 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1735 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1736 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1737 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1738 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1739 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1740 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1741 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1746 Notmuch database upgrade
1748 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1749 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1750 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1751 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1752 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1753 released version of Notmuch before now.
1755 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1757 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1758 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1759 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1760 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1762 Message header parsing changes
1764 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1765 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1766 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1767 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1768 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1769 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1771 Command-Line Interface
1772 ----------------------
1774 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1776 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1778 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1780 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1782 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1784 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1785 user does not want it.
1787 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1789 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1790 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1791 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1792 support formatted output.
1794 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1796 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1797 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1798 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1806 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1807 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1808 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1809 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1810 `~/.emacs` with these.
1812 Changed format for saved searches
1814 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1815 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1816 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1817 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1820 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1821 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1822 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1823 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1825 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1826 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1827 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1829 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1830 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1831 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1832 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1833 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1835 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1837 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1838 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1839 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1841 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1843 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1844 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1845 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1846 message had been unread).
1848 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1849 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1850 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1851 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1853 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1854 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1855 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1857 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1858 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1859 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1860 to tags already present.
1864 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1865 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1866 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1867 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1868 these differ from each other.
1869 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1871 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1873 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1874 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1875 for these Emacs versions.
1877 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1879 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1880 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1882 Bug fixes for sender identities
1884 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1885 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1886 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1888 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1890 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1891 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1892 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1893 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1895 Reply pushes mark before signature
1897 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1898 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1899 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1901 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1903 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1904 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1910 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1911 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1913 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1914 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1915 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1916 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1918 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1919 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1920 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1921 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1922 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1924 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1926 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1927 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1929 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1930 =========================
1932 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1933 ---------------------------------------
1935 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1936 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1937 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1938 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1939 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1940 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1941 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1945 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1946 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1948 Command-Line Interface
1949 ----------------------
1951 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1953 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1954 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1955 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1956 print for each message.
1958 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1959 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1960 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1961 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1963 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1965 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1966 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1967 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1969 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1971 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1972 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1973 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1974 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1976 `notmuch compact` command
1978 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1979 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1980 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1981 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1982 move the compacted database into place.
1987 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1989 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1990 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1991 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1992 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1993 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1994 and multiple threads.
1996 Using `notmuch-tree`
1998 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2000 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2001 search, show and tree mode itself)
2003 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2006 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2007 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2009 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2011 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2012 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2013 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2014 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2015 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2016 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2017 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2019 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2021 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2022 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2023 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2024 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2025 thread when the search was performed.
2027 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2029 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2030 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2031 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2033 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2035 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2036 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2039 Built-in help improvements
2041 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2042 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2043 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2045 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2047 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2048 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2049 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2051 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2053 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2054 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2056 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2058 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2059 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2060 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2061 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2063 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2065 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2066 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2067 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2068 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2070 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2072 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2073 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2074 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2076 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2078 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2079 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2080 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2082 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2084 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2085 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2086 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2087 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2088 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2090 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2092 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2093 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2094 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2095 the body part of the message.
2100 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2101 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2102 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2104 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2105 =========================
2107 Command-Line Interface
2108 ----------------------
2110 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2112 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2113 folder and notmuch index.
2115 `notmuch count --batch` option
2117 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2118 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2120 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2122 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2123 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2124 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2127 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2129 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2130 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2131 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2132 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2133 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2136 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2138 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2139 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2141 Top level option to specify configuration file
2143 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2144 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2146 Bash command-line completion
2148 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2149 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2150 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2151 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2152 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2153 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2154 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2155 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2156 bash-completion package.
2158 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2163 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2165 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2166 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2167 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2168 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2169 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2170 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2171 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2172 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2174 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2176 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2177 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2178 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2180 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2182 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2183 previous thread in the search results.
2185 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2187 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2188 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2190 Faster search and show
2192 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2193 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2194 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2195 threads should show faster.
2199 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2200 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2201 in question was now removed from this release.
2206 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2207 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2212 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2214 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2215 ===========================
2220 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2222 Internal test framework changes
2223 -------------------------------
2225 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2226 being unimplemented.
2228 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2229 ===========================
2231 Internal test framework changes
2232 -------------------------------
2234 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2235 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2237 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2238 =========================
2243 Date range search support
2245 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2246 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2247 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2248 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2249 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2252 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2254 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2255 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2256 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2257 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2258 but may be removed in a future release.
2260 Command-Line Interface
2261 ----------------------
2263 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2265 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2266 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2268 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2270 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2271 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2272 officially deprecated.
2274 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2276 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2277 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2278 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2280 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2282 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2283 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2286 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2287 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2288 dump/restore format.
2290 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2292 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2293 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2294 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2296 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2298 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2299 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2300 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2302 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2304 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2305 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2306 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2307 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2312 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2314 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2315 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2316 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2317 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2319 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2321 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2322 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2323 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2324 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2325 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2326 the behavior of this, see
2327 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2328 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2330 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2331 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2332 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2334 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2336 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2337 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2340 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2342 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2343 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2344 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2345 simply displayed in place of the message.
2347 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2349 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2350 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2352 Improved text/calendar content handling
2354 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2355 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2356 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2357 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2359 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2361 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2362 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2363 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2364 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2366 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2368 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2369 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2370 for HTML email containing images.
2372 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2374 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2376 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2378 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2381 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2383 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2384 the point where it was.
2386 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2388 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2389 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2390 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2391 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2392 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2394 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2396 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2397 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2398 thread instead of the message id.
2400 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2401 -----------------------------
2403 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2404 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2405 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2406 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2407 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2408 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2409 further details and installation.
2414 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2416 Internal test framework changes
2417 -------------------------------
2419 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2421 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2422 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2423 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2424 can result in buggy behavior.
2426 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2427 =========================
2432 Maildir tag synchronization
2434 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2435 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2436 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2437 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2438 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2439 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2442 Command-Line Interface
2443 ----------------------
2445 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2446 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2447 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2448 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2449 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2455 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2457 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2459 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2460 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2461 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2463 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2465 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2466 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2467 span multiple lines.
2469 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2471 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2472 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2473 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2474 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2475 inside the result or message.
2477 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2479 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2480 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2482 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2483 user-specified formatting
2485 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2486 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2487 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2488 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2489 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2491 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2492 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2494 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2495 ===========================
2500 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2501 compilation error for this contrib package.
2503 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2504 ===========================
2509 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2511 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2512 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2513 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2514 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2516 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2517 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2520 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2521 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2522 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2523 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2526 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2528 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2531 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2532 =========================
2534 Command-Line Interface
2535 ----------------------
2539 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2540 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2541 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2542 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2544 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2545 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2546 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2547 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2551 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2552 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2554 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2555 tag in your query, for example:
2557 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2559 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2560 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2562 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2563 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2565 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2567 Raw show format changes
2569 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2570 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2571 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2572 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2573 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2574 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2575 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2576 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2578 Listing configuration items
2580 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2586 Changes to tagging interface
2588 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2589 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2590 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2591 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2592 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2593 for more information.
2595 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2596 may need to update in custom configurations.
2598 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2600 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2601 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2602 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2603 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2606 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2607 -----------------------------
2609 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2610 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2611 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2612 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2613 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2614 contrib/ from now on.
2619 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2620 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2622 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2623 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2625 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2626 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2627 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2629 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2630 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2632 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2633 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2634 returning the new database object or directory object.
2641 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2642 compatible with go 1.
2644 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2645 =========================
2647 Command-Line Interface
2648 ----------------------
2652 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2653 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2654 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2655 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2657 Mail store folder/file ignore
2659 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2660 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2661 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2663 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2664 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2666 Unified help and manual pages
2668 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2669 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2672 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2674 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2675 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2683 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2684 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2685 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2686 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2688 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2690 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2691 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2693 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2696 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2697 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2698 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2700 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2702 should be changed to:
2704 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2706 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2708 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2709 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2711 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2713 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2714 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2715 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2716 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2717 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2718 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2722 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2723 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2724 of Mailing List Archives.
2726 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2728 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2729 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2732 Show view archiving key binding changes
2734 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2735 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2736 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2737 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2738 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2741 Support text/calendar MIME type
2743 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2746 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2748 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2749 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2750 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2751 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2753 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2755 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2756 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2757 messages blue by default in the search view.
2761 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2762 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2769 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2772 Python bindings changes
2773 -----------------------
2775 Python 3.2 compatibility
2777 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2779 Added missing unicode conversions
2781 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2782 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2783 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2788 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2790 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2791 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2792 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2793 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2794 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2796 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2797 ===========================
2802 Fix error handling in python bindings
2804 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2805 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2806 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2807 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2809 Quote MML tags in replies
2811 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2812 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2813 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2814 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2815 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2816 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2817 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2818 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2820 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2821 =========================
2823 Command-Line Interface
2824 ----------------------
2828 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2829 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2830 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2831 importing new messages into the database.
2833 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2835 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2836 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2837 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2842 Automatic tag query optimization
2844 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2845 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2846 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2848 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2850 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2851 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2852 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2857 Reduction of memory leaks
2859 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2860 and fixed in this release.
2867 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2868 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2869 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2872 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2874 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2875 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2876 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2879 Improvements in saved search management
2881 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2882 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2883 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2885 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2887 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2888 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2889 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2891 New face for crypto parts headers
2893 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2894 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2895 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2898 Use space as default thousands separator
2900 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2901 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2902 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2904 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2905 buttonized id: links
2907 New function notmuch-show-advance
2909 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2910 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2911 be bound to SPC with:
2913 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2915 Various performance improvements
2920 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2921 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2924 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2925 ===========================
2930 Fix crash in python bindings
2932 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2933 for some, but not all users.
2935 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2936 ===========================
2941 Fix `--help` argument
2943 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2944 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2945 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2947 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2948 =========================
2950 New build and testing features
2951 ------------------------------
2953 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2954 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2955 prerequisites is improved.
2957 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2959 New command-line features
2960 -------------------------
2962 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2964 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2965 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2968 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2970 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2971 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2972 favour of using stdout.
2974 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2976 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2977 limit the number of results shown.
2979 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2981 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2982 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2985 New emacs UI features
2986 ---------------------
2988 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2990 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2991 starting with "tag:".
2993 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2995 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2996 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2998 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3000 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3002 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3004 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3005 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3010 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3012 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3014 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3015 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3016 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3017 requires a database rebuild:
3019 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3020 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3022 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3024 New collection of add-on tools
3025 ------------------------------
3027 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3028 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3029 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3032 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3034 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3035 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3036 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3038 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3039 ========================
3041 New, general features
3042 ---------------------
3044 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3046 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3047 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3048 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3049 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3050 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3057 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3058 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3060 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3064 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3065 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3066 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3069 Python bindings changes
3070 -----------------------
3072 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3074 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3075 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3076 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3077 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3078 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3079 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3081 Ruby bindings changes
3082 ---------------------
3084 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3085 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3086 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3087 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3092 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3094 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3095 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3097 Reply formatting cleanup
3098 ------------------------
3100 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3101 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3103 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3104 ========================
3106 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3108 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3109 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3110 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3111 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3114 Improved Build system portability
3116 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3117 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3118 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3120 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3122 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3124 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3126 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3127 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3128 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3130 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3131 ========================
3133 Vim interface improvements
3134 --------------------------
3136 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3138 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3139 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3140 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3141 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3142 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3144 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3146 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3147 * fix compose temp file name
3149 Python Bindings changes
3150 -----------------------
3152 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3154 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3155 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3157 Build-System improvements
3158 -------------------------
3160 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3162 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3165 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3166 ==========================
3171 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3173 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3174 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3176 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3177 =======================
3179 New, general features
3180 ---------------------
3182 Folder-based searching
3184 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3185 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3186 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3190 For example, one might use things such as:
3196 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3197 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3199 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3200 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3201 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3202 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3204 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3205 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3206 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3209 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3210 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3212 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3214 Support for PGP/MIME
3216 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3217 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3218 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3220 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3222 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3223 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3225 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3226 notmuch will receive these tags.
3228 New command-line features
3229 -------------------------
3231 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3233 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3234 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3236 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3238 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3239 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3240 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3242 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3244 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3245 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3246 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3247 which parts a signature part applies).
3249 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3251 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3252 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3253 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3254 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3255 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3258 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3260 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3261 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3262 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3263 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3264 by translating it internally to the new call.
3266 Performance improvements
3267 ------------------------
3269 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3271 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3272 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3273 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3275 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3276 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3278 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3280 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3281 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3282 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3284 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3285 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3286 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3287 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3289 Faster initial indexing
3291 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3292 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3293 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3295 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3297 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3298 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3299 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3300 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3302 New emacs-interface features
3303 ----------------------------
3305 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3307 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3308 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3309 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3310 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3311 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3312 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3314 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3316 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3317 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3318 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3319 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3321 User-selectable From address
3323 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3324 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3325 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3326 will prompt for the from address to use.
3328 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3329 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3330 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3332 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3333 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3334 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3337 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3339 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3340 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3342 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3344 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3346 ----- Original Message -----
3348 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3349 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3350 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3351 citations work much like conventional citations.
3353 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3355 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3356 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3357 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3358 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3359 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3361 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3362 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3364 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3366 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3367 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3368 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3370 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3372 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3373 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3374 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3375 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3376 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3378 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3380 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3383 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3385 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3387 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3389 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3392 Vim interface improvements
3393 --------------------------
3395 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3397 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3398 * Implementing archive in show view
3399 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3400 * Add delete commands
3403 Bindings improvements
3404 ---------------------
3406 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3408 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3409 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3411 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3413 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3417 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3418 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3419 `list(Messages)` works now
3420 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3422 These allow, for example:
3424 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3426 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3428 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3434 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3436 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3439 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3441 New build-system features
3442 -------------------------
3444 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3446 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3447 the configure script from some other directory:
3454 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3456 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3457 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3458 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3459 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3460 manual invocation of configure.
3462 New test-suite feature
3463 ----------------------
3465 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3467 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3468 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3469 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3470 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3471 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3474 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3476 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3477 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3478 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3479 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3480 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3481 are updated to take advantage of this.
3483 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3485 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3486 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3487 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3488 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3494 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3496 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3497 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3498 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3500 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3502 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3504 to:user@elsewhere.com
3506 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3508 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3510 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3512 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3513 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3514 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3517 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3518 from the Received headers in some cases
3520 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3521 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3523 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3525 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3527 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3529 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3530 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3531 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3533 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3534 -------------------------
3536 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3538 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3539 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3540 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3542 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3544 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3545 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3546 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3549 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3551 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3552 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3553 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3554 fixed to avoid this bug.
3556 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3558 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3559 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3561 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3562 ========================
3564 New, general features
3565 ---------------------
3567 Maildir-flag synchronization
3569 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3570 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3579 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3581 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3582 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3583 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3584 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3586 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3587 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3588 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3589 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3592 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3594 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3595 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3596 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3598 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3599 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3601 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3602 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3604 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3605 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3606 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3608 New library features
3609 --------------------
3611 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3613 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3614 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3615 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3616 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3618 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3619 message with the new function:
3621 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3623 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3624 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3625 over all available filenames for a given message.
3627 New command-line features
3628 -------------------------
3630 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3632 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3633 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3634 access to the mail store itself.
3636 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3637 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3638 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3639 name of a script containing:
3641 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3643 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3644 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3650 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3652 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3654 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3656 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3657 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3658 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3659 now produces nothing).
3661 Emacs interface improvements
3662 ----------------------------
3664 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3666 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3668 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3670 Display current thread subject in a header line
3672 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3674 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3676 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3677 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3678 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3679 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3680 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3681 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3682 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3684 Vim interface improvements
3685 --------------------------
3687 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3689 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3690 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3696 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3698 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3699 ========================
3701 New command-line features
3702 -------------------------
3704 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3706 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3707 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3708 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3710 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3711 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3712 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3713 scripts. For example:
3715 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3716 <operations-on> "$file"
3719 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3721 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3722 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3723 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3724 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3725 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3726 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3728 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3730 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3731 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3732 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3733 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3735 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3737 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3738 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3739 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3740 default rather than Bcc.
3742 New library features
3743 --------------------
3745 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3747 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3748 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3753 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3755 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3756 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3757 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3758 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3759 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3760 notmuch customize interface.
3762 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3764 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3765 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3766 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3767 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3769 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3771 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3772 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3773 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3774 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3776 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3778 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3779 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3780 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3781 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3782 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3783 notmuch customize interface.
3785 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3787 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3788 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3789 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3790 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3791 notmuch customize interface.
3793 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3795 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3796 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3797 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3798 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3801 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3803 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3804 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3805 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3808 New build-system features
3809 -------------------------
3811 Various portability fixes have been applied
3813 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3814 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3815 more portable than ever before.
3817 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3819 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3820 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3821 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3823 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3824 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3825 automatically run ldconfig.
3827 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3828 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3829 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3831 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3832 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3833 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3834 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3836 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3838 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3839 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3840 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3841 used in the resulting Makefile.
3843 New test-suite features
3844 -----------------------
3846 New modularization of test suite
3848 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3849 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3850 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3851 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3852 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3853 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3854 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3855 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3857 New testing of emacs interface
3859 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3860 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3861 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3862 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3863 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3864 database via the FCC setting.
3869 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3871 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3872 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3873 persistent error of the form:
3875 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3877 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3878 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3880 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3882 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3883 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3884 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3886 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3888 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3889 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3890 parsing the notmuch results).
3892 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3894 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3897 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3898 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3899 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3904 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3906 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3907 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3908 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3909 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3910 the emacs interface.
3912 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3914 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3915 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3916 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3918 Python-binding fixes
3919 --------------------
3921 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3923 Debian-specific fixes
3924 ---------------------
3926 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3928 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3929 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3930 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3933 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3934 ==========================
3939 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3941 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3942 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3943 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3944 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3946 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3948 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3949 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3950 want notmuch to crash.
3955 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3957 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3958 directory does not exist
3963 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3965 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3966 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3968 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3969 ========================
3971 New command-line features
3972 -------------------------
3974 User-configurable tags for new messages
3976 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3977 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3978 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3979 to specify this value.
3981 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3983 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3984 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3985 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3987 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3989 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3990 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3992 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3994 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3995 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3996 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3997 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3998 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4001 Indication of author names that match a search
4003 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4004 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4005 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4006 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4007 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4008 messages in the thread are listed first.
4010 New: Python bindings
4011 --------------------
4013 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4014 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4015 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4016 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4018 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4019 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4020 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4023 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4024 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4025 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4027 Emacs interface improvements
4028 ----------------------------
4030 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4032 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4033 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4034 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4035 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4036 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4037 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4038 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4039 but without any of the disadvantages).
4041 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4042 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4043 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4046 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4047 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4048 instead running something like:
4050 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4052 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4053 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4054 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4057 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4059 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4060 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4061 tweaked by the user.
4063 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4064 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4065 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4068 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4069 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4070 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4073 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4075 This support currently relies on an external program,
4076 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4077 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4078 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4079 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4080 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4083 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4084 notmuch) is available via:
4086 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4088 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4089 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4090 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4092 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4094 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4095 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4096 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4097 making this automatic in a future release.
4099 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4101 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4102 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4103 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4104 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4105 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4106 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4109 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4111 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4112 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4113 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4115 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4117 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4118 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4119 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4121 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4122 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4123 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4124 other representation.
4126 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4127 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4130 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4132 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4133 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4134 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4136 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4137 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4138 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4140 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4142 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4143 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4144 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4145 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4146 to display the search result.
4148 More flexible handling of header visibility
4150 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4151 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4152 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4153 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4154 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4155 with the 'h' keybinding.
4157 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4158 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4159 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4161 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4163 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4165 Customizable formatting of search results
4167 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4168 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4169 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4171 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4173 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4175 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4180 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4182 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4183 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4184 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4185 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4191 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4193 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4194 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4196 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4198 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4199 accept are now all accepted.
4204 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4206 Better display of output from failed tests
4208 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4209 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4211 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4212 ========================
4214 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4215 detailed release notes this time!
4217 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4218 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4220 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4221 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4222 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4223 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4230 Better guessing of From: header
4232 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4233 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4234 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4235 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4236 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4239 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4241 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4242 guaranteed to match all messages.
4244 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4246 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4247 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4248 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4249 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4250 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4253 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4256 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4257 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4258 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4259 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4264 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4266 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4267 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4268 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4269 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4271 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4273 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4275 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4276 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4277 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4279 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4281 Previously, the user might see:
4283 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4287 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4289 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4290 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4291 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4292 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4294 Emacs client features
4295 ---------------------
4297 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4299 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4300 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4301 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4302 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4303 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4305 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4308 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4309 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4310 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4311 search with the '*' binding.
4313 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4315 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4316 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4319 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4321 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4322 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4323 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4325 Build-system features
4326 ---------------------
4328 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4330 Add support to configure for many standard options
4332 We include actual support for:
4334 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4336 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4338 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4339 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4341 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4342 separate "make install-emacs"
4344 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4346 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4347 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4348 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4350 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4353 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4354 ========================
4356 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4358 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4359 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4361 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4362 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4363 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4364 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4365 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4366 tags from messages in a thread.
4373 indent-tabs-mode: nil