1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
10 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
11 =========================
18 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
19 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
20 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
21 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
22 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
25 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
27 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
28 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
29 correct encoding for such messages.
31 Command Line Interface
32 ----------------------
34 Support relative database paths
36 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
37 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
38 to $HOME of the invoking user.
43 Improve stderr handling
45 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
48 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
50 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
55 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
56 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
62 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
63 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
69 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
70 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
73 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
74 =========================
79 Add support for thread:{} queries
81 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
82 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
83 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
85 Command Line Interface
86 ----------------------
88 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
90 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
92 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
94 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
95 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
96 does not have to be available during message receipt.
101 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
107 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
108 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
110 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
111 ===========================
116 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
118 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
119 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
120 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
122 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
124 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
125 related abort in `notmuch show`.
127 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
128 ===========================
133 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
134 better late than never.
137 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
138 =========================
140 Command Line Interface
141 ----------------------
143 Support for re-indexing existing messages
145 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
146 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
147 change the way specific messages are indexed.
149 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
150 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
151 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
153 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
155 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
157 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
159 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
160 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
161 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
162 the setting of `new.tags`.
164 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
166 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
168 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
170 This inserts into the top level folder.
172 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
174 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
176 New option --output=address for notmuch address
178 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
180 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
182 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
183 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
184 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
186 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
191 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
193 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
194 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
195 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
196 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
197 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
198 config set index.decrypt true".
200 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
201 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
202 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
203 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
204 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
205 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
206 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
207 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
209 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
210 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
211 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
212 this feature without considering the security of your index.
217 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
219 Use make-process when available
221 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
222 notmuch command without using temporary files.
227 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
229 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
230 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
231 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
232 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
234 New functions to count files
236 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
237 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
239 New function to remove properties
241 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
242 drop all properties with a common pattern:
243 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
245 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
247 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
248 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
249 possibility of NULL was not documented.
251 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
253 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
254 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
255 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
256 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
257 operator may decide to change from message to message.
264 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
265 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
266 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
272 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
274 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
275 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
277 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
279 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
281 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
283 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
288 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
289 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
291 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
292 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
293 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
294 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
295 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
296 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
301 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
303 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
304 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
305 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
306 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
308 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
309 ===========================
314 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
315 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
318 Command Line Interface
319 ----------------------
321 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
322 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
325 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
326 ===========================
328 Command Line Interface
329 ----------------------
331 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
332 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
337 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
340 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
341 ===========================
346 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
349 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
350 =========================
355 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
357 Skip HTML tags when indexing
359 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
361 Command Line Interface
362 ----------------------
364 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
366 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
371 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
373 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
374 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
377 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
382 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
384 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
385 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
387 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
389 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
390 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
393 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
395 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
397 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
399 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
400 ===========================
402 Command Line Interface
403 ----------------------
405 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
410 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
412 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
413 ===========================
418 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
420 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
421 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
424 Command Line Interface
425 ----------------------
427 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
429 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
431 Fix bug in dump header
433 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
434 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
435 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
440 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
442 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
443 =========================
448 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
450 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
453 Command Line Interface
454 ----------------------
456 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
458 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
459 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
460 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
462 New default output format to 3
464 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
465 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
466 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
467 default format changes.
472 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
474 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
475 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
476 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
477 or tree view to resume.
479 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
480 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
481 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
484 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
485 they were when you postponed in the final message.
489 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
490 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
491 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
492 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
493 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
497 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
498 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
499 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
500 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
501 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
502 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
506 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
507 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
509 Stop display of `application/*` parts
511 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
512 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
513 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
514 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
515 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
516 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
517 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
518 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
521 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
523 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
524 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
525 only tagged the current thread.)
527 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
529 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
530 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
531 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
533 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
535 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
536 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
537 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
538 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
539 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
540 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
541 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
543 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
545 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
546 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
547 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
552 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
554 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
557 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
559 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
562 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
563 ===========================
568 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
570 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
571 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
572 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
575 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
576 ===========================
578 Command Line Interface
579 ----------------------
581 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
586 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
588 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
589 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
590 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
592 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
593 ===========================
598 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
599 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
601 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
602 ===========================
604 Command Line Interface
605 ----------------------
607 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
609 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
610 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
611 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
616 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
618 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
619 ===========================
621 Command Line Interface
622 ----------------------
624 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
629 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
631 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
632 ===========================
637 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
639 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
640 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
641 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
643 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
645 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
647 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
648 ===========================
653 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
655 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
660 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
662 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
663 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
664 the original colours.
666 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
667 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
669 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
671 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
672 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
673 bug, and hence the test.
675 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
676 =========================
678 General (Xapian 1.4+)
679 ---------------------
681 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
683 Support for single argument date: queries
685 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
687 Support for blocking opens
689 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
690 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
692 Support for named queries
694 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
695 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
696 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
703 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
704 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
705 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
706 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
708 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
710 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
715 Support for compile time options
717 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
718 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
721 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
723 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
724 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
725 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
726 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
727 scripts to ignore it.
732 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
734 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
735 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
736 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
738 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
739 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
740 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
741 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
742 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
743 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
744 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
746 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
747 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
750 Make internal address completion customizable
752 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
753 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
754 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
755 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
758 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
760 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
761 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
762 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
763 completion for the current buffer.
765 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
766 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
767 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
771 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
772 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
773 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
774 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
775 will be added instead.
777 Face customization is easier
779 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
780 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
781 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
782 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
784 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
789 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
794 Go bindings moved to contrib
796 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
798 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
800 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
801 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
803 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
805 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
806 ===========================
813 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
814 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
816 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
818 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
820 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
821 ===========================
826 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
828 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
833 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
838 Use `env` to locate perl.
843 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
845 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
847 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
849 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
851 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
852 =========================
859 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
860 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
862 Limited support for S/MIME messages
864 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
865 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
866 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
871 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
872 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
873 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
875 Command Line Interface
876 ----------------------
878 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
880 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
885 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
890 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
892 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
893 parts are now included in replies.
895 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
896 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
897 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
898 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
900 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
902 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
904 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
906 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
907 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
908 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
909 forwards only the current message.
911 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
913 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
914 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
915 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
916 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
917 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
918 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
919 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
920 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
923 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
924 longer generate empty buffers
926 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
927 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
928 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
929 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
930 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
932 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
934 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
937 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
939 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
942 Address completion improvements
944 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
945 you previously configured one, customize the variable
946 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
947 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
948 interactive address completion.
950 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
952 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
953 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
954 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
959 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
960 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
961 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
967 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
968 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
969 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
970 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
971 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
972 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
974 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
975 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
976 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
977 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
978 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
979 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
981 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
982 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
984 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
985 =========================
990 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
993 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
995 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
996 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
997 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
999 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1000 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1002 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1003 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1004 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1006 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1008 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1009 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1010 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1011 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1012 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1013 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1018 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1019 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1022 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1023 option to configure.
1025 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1027 Command Line Interface
1028 ----------------------
1030 Database revision tracking
1032 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1033 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1034 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1035 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1037 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1039 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1040 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1041 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1042 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1043 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1044 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1045 manual page for further information.
1050 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1052 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1053 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1055 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1057 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1058 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1059 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1061 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1063 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1065 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1066 customization as well.
1068 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1070 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1072 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1074 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1076 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1077 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1078 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1079 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1081 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1083 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1084 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1085 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1086 this variable to 10000.
1091 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1092 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1094 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1096 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1097 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1098 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1099 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1100 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1101 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1102 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1103 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1104 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1107 Database revision tracking
1109 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1110 query parser and the new function
1111 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1113 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1115 Deprecated functions
1117 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1118 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1119 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1120 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1125 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1127 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1128 ===========================
1133 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1135 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1136 ===========================
1141 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1143 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1144 =========================
1146 Command-Line Interface
1147 ----------------------
1149 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1151 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1152 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1153 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1155 Path to gpg is now configurable
1157 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1158 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1163 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1165 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1170 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1175 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1180 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1182 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1183 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1185 New error logging facility
1187 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1188 output formerly printed to stderr.
1190 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1192 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1194 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1196 Fix for rounding of seconds
1201 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1203 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1204 documentation has been removed.
1206 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1208 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1209 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1214 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1215 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1216 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1221 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1222 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1223 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1224 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1225 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1226 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1229 git checkout config origin/config
1231 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1233 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1234 =========================
1239 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1240 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1241 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1242 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1243 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1244 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1245 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1247 Command-Line Interface
1248 ----------------------
1250 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1252 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1253 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1254 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1255 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1256 script callers should still check the return value.
1258 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1260 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1261 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1262 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1263 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1264 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1265 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1266 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1268 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1270 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1271 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1272 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1274 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1276 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1277 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1278 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1279 currently unmaintained.
1281 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1283 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1284 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1285 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1286 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1288 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1290 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1291 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1292 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1293 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1294 count of duplicate addresses.
1299 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1301 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1302 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1303 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1306 Improved handling of the unread tag
1308 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1309 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1310 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1311 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1312 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1313 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1314 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1316 Expanded default saved search settings
1318 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1319 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1321 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1323 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1324 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1325 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1327 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1329 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1330 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1331 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1332 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1333 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1334 the variable for details.
1339 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1341 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1342 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1343 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1344 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1346 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1348 Previously, library users were required to call
1349 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1350 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1351 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1352 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1353 too out of date for that API.
1355 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1357 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1358 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1359 atomic section will be aborted.
1361 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1362 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1364 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1366 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1367 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1368 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1369 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1370 messages into the same thread.
1375 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1376 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1377 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1378 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1379 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1380 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1385 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1386 from the config file. Use something like:
1390 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1391 "footer": "</body></html>",
1400 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1405 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1406 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1407 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1409 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1410 ===========================
1415 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1417 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1419 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1421 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1422 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1424 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1426 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1429 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1430 ===========================
1432 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1437 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1439 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1441 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1443 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1445 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1451 Use --quick when starting emacs
1453 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1455 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1457 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1459 Command-Line Interface
1460 ----------------------
1462 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1463 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1468 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1470 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1471 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1473 Fix for phrase indexing
1475 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1476 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1477 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1482 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1484 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1485 unintentionally removed.
1487 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1488 =========================
1493 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1494 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1495 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1496 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1497 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1498 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1499 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1500 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1501 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1507 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1509 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1510 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1511 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1512 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1513 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1514 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1515 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1516 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1518 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1520 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1521 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1522 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1523 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1526 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1528 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1529 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1530 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1531 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1532 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1533 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1534 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1539 Notmuch database upgrade
1541 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1542 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1543 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1544 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1545 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1546 released version of Notmuch before now.
1548 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1550 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1551 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1552 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1553 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1555 Message header parsing changes
1557 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1558 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1559 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1560 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1561 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1562 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1564 Command-Line Interface
1565 ----------------------
1567 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1569 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1571 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1573 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1575 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1577 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1578 user does not want it.
1580 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1582 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1583 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1584 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1585 support formatted output.
1587 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1589 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1590 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1591 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1599 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1600 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1601 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1602 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1603 `~/.emacs` with these.
1605 Changed format for saved searches
1607 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1608 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1609 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1610 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1613 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1614 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1615 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1616 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1618 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1619 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1620 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1622 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1623 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1624 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1625 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1626 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1628 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1630 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1631 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1632 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1634 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1636 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1637 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1638 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1639 message had been unread).
1641 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1642 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1643 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1644 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1646 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1647 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1648 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1650 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1651 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1652 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1653 to tags already present.
1657 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1658 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1659 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1660 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1661 these differ from each other.
1662 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1664 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1666 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1667 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1668 for these Emacs versions.
1670 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1672 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1673 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1675 Bug fixes for sender identities
1677 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1678 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1679 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1681 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1683 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1684 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1685 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1686 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1688 Reply pushes mark before signature
1690 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1691 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1692 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1694 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1696 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1697 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1703 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1704 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1706 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1707 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1708 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1709 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1711 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1712 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1713 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1714 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1715 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1717 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1719 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1720 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1722 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1723 =========================
1725 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1726 ---------------------------------------
1728 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1729 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1730 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1731 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1732 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1733 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1734 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1738 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1739 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1741 Command-Line Interface
1742 ----------------------
1744 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1746 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1747 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1748 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1749 print for each message.
1751 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1752 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1753 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1754 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1756 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1758 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1759 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1760 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1762 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1764 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1765 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1766 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1767 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1769 `notmuch compact` command
1771 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1772 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1773 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1774 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1775 move the compacted database into place.
1780 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1782 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1783 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1784 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1785 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1786 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1787 and multiple threads.
1789 Using `notmuch-tree`
1791 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1793 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1794 search, show and tree mode itself)
1796 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1799 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1800 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1802 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1804 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1805 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1806 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1807 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1808 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1809 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1810 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1812 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1814 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1815 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1816 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1817 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1818 thread when the search was performed.
1820 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1822 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1823 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1824 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1826 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1828 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1829 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1832 Built-in help improvements
1834 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1835 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1836 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1838 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1840 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1841 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1842 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1844 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1846 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1847 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1849 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1851 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1852 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1853 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1854 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1856 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1858 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1859 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1860 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1861 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1863 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1865 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1866 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1867 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1869 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1871 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1872 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1873 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1875 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1877 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1878 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1879 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1880 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1881 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1883 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1885 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1886 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1887 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1888 the body part of the message.
1893 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1894 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1895 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1897 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1898 =========================
1900 Command-Line Interface
1901 ----------------------
1903 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1905 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1906 folder and notmuch index.
1908 `notmuch count --batch` option
1910 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1911 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1913 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1915 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1916 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1917 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1920 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1922 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1923 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1924 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1925 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1926 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1929 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1931 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1932 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1934 Top level option to specify configuration file
1936 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1937 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1939 Bash command-line completion
1941 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1942 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1943 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1944 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1945 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1946 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1947 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1948 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1949 bash-completion package.
1951 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1956 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1958 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1959 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1960 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1961 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1962 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1963 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1964 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1965 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1967 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1969 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1970 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1971 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1973 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1975 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1976 previous thread in the search results.
1978 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1980 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1981 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1983 Faster search and show
1985 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1986 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1987 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1988 threads should show faster.
1992 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1993 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1994 in question was now removed from this release.
1999 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2000 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2005 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2007 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2008 ===========================
2013 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2015 Internal test framework changes
2016 -------------------------------
2018 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2019 being unimplemented.
2021 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2022 ===========================
2024 Internal test framework changes
2025 -------------------------------
2027 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2028 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2030 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2031 =========================
2036 Date range search support
2038 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2039 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2040 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2041 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2042 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2045 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2047 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2048 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2049 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2050 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2051 but may be removed in a future release.
2053 Command-Line Interface
2054 ----------------------
2056 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2058 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2059 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2061 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2063 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2064 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2065 officially deprecated.
2067 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2069 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2070 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2071 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2073 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2075 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2076 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2079 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2080 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2081 dump/restore format.
2083 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2085 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2086 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2087 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2089 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2091 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2092 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2093 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2095 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2097 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2098 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2099 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2100 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2105 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2107 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2108 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2109 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2110 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2112 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2114 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2115 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2116 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2117 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2118 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2119 the behavior of this, see
2120 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2121 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2123 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2124 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2125 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2127 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2129 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2130 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2133 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2135 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2136 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2137 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2138 simply displayed in place of the message.
2140 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2142 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2143 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2145 Improved text/calendar content handling
2147 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2148 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2149 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2150 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2152 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2154 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2155 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2156 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2157 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2159 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2161 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2162 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2163 for HTML email containing images.
2165 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2167 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2169 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2171 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2174 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2176 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2177 the point where it was.
2179 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2181 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2182 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2183 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2184 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2185 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2187 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2189 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2190 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2191 thread instead of the message id.
2193 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2194 -----------------------------
2196 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2197 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2198 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2199 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2200 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2201 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2202 further details and installation.
2207 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2209 Internal test framework changes
2210 -------------------------------
2212 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2214 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2215 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2216 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2217 can result in buggy behavior.
2219 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2220 =========================
2225 Maildir tag synchronization
2227 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2228 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2229 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2230 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2231 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2232 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2235 Command-Line Interface
2236 ----------------------
2238 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2239 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2240 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2241 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2242 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2248 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2250 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2252 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2253 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2254 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2256 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2258 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2259 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2260 span multiple lines.
2262 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2264 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2265 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2266 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2267 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2268 inside the result or message.
2270 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2272 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2273 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2275 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2276 user-specified formatting
2278 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2279 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2280 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2281 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2282 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2284 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2285 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2287 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2288 ===========================
2293 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2294 compilation error for this contrib package.
2296 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2297 ===========================
2302 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2304 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2305 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2306 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2307 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2309 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2310 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2313 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2314 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2315 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2316 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2319 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2321 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2324 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2325 =========================
2327 Command-Line Interface
2328 ----------------------
2332 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2333 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2334 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2335 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2337 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2338 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2339 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2340 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2344 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2345 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2347 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2348 tag in your query, for example:
2350 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2352 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2353 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2355 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2356 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2358 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2360 Raw show format changes
2362 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2363 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2364 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2365 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2366 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2367 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2368 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2369 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2371 Listing configuration items
2373 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2379 Changes to tagging interface
2381 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2382 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2383 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2384 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2385 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2386 for more information.
2388 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2389 may need to update in custom configurations.
2391 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2393 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2394 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2395 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2396 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2399 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2400 -----------------------------
2402 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2403 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2404 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2405 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2406 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2407 contrib/ from now on.
2412 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2413 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2415 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2416 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2418 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2419 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2420 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2422 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2423 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2425 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2426 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2427 returning the new database object or directory object.
2434 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2435 compatible with go 1.
2437 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2438 =========================
2440 Command-Line Interface
2441 ----------------------
2445 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2446 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2447 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2448 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2450 Mail store folder/file ignore
2452 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2453 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2454 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2456 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2457 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2459 Unified help and manual pages
2461 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2462 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2465 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2467 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2468 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2476 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2477 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2478 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2479 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2481 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2483 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2484 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2486 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2489 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2490 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2491 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2493 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2495 should be changed to:
2497 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2499 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2501 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2502 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2504 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2506 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2507 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2508 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2509 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2510 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2511 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2515 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2516 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2517 of Mailing List Archives.
2519 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2521 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2522 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2525 Show view archiving key binding changes
2527 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2528 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2529 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2530 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2531 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2534 Support text/calendar MIME type
2536 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2539 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2541 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2542 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2543 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2544 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2546 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2548 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2549 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2550 messages blue by default in the search view.
2554 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2555 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2562 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2565 Python bindings changes
2566 -----------------------
2568 Python 3.2 compatibility
2570 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2572 Added missing unicode conversions
2574 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2575 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2576 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2581 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2583 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2584 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2585 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2586 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2587 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2589 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2590 ===========================
2595 Fix error handling in python bindings
2597 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2598 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2599 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2600 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2602 Quote MML tags in replies
2604 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2605 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2606 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2607 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2608 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2609 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2610 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2611 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2613 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2614 =========================
2616 Command-Line Interface
2617 ----------------------
2621 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2622 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2623 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2624 importing new messages into the database.
2626 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2628 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2629 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2630 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2635 Automatic tag query optimization
2637 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2638 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2639 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2641 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2643 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2644 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2645 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2650 Reduction of memory leaks
2652 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2653 and fixed in this release.
2660 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2661 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2662 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2665 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2667 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2668 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2669 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2672 Improvements in saved search management
2674 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2675 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2676 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2678 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2680 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2681 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2682 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2684 New face for crypto parts headers
2686 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2687 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2688 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2691 Use space as default thousands separator
2693 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2694 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2695 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2697 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2698 buttonized id: links
2700 New function notmuch-show-advance
2702 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2703 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2704 be bound to SPC with:
2706 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2708 Various performance improvements
2713 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2714 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2717 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2718 ===========================
2723 Fix crash in python bindings
2725 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2726 for some, but not all users.
2728 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2729 ===========================
2734 Fix `--help` argument
2736 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2737 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2738 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2740 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2741 =========================
2743 New build and testing features
2744 ------------------------------
2746 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2747 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2748 prerequisites is improved.
2750 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2752 New command-line features
2753 -------------------------
2755 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2757 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2758 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2761 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2763 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2764 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2765 favour of using stdout.
2767 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2769 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2770 limit the number of results shown.
2772 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2774 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2775 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2778 New emacs UI features
2779 ---------------------
2781 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2783 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2784 starting with "tag:".
2786 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2788 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2789 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2791 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2793 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2795 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2797 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2798 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2803 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2805 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2807 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2808 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2809 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2810 requires a database rebuild:
2812 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2813 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2815 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2817 New collection of add-on tools
2818 ------------------------------
2820 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2821 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2822 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2825 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2827 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2828 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2829 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2831 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2832 ========================
2834 New, general features
2835 ---------------------
2837 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2839 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2840 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2841 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2842 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2843 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2850 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2851 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2853 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2857 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2858 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2859 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2862 Python bindings changes
2863 -----------------------
2865 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2867 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2868 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2869 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2870 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2871 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2872 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2874 Ruby bindings changes
2875 ---------------------
2877 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2878 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2879 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2880 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2885 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2887 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2888 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2890 Reply formatting cleanup
2891 ------------------------
2893 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2894 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2896 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2897 ========================
2899 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2901 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2902 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2903 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2904 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2907 Improved Build system portability
2909 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2910 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2911 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2913 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2915 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2917 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2919 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2920 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2921 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2923 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2924 ========================
2926 Vim interface improvements
2927 --------------------------
2929 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2931 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2932 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2933 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2934 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2935 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2937 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2939 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2940 * fix compose temp file name
2942 Python Bindings changes
2943 -----------------------
2945 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2947 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2948 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2950 Build-System improvements
2951 -------------------------
2953 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2955 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2958 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2959 ==========================
2964 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2966 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2967 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2969 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2970 =======================
2972 New, general features
2973 ---------------------
2975 Folder-based searching
2977 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2978 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2979 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2983 For example, one might use things such as:
2989 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2990 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2992 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2993 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2994 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2995 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2997 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2998 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2999 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3002 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3003 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3005 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3007 Support for PGP/MIME
3009 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3010 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3011 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3013 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3015 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3016 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3018 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3019 notmuch will receive these tags.
3021 New command-line features
3022 -------------------------
3024 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3026 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3027 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3029 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3031 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3032 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3033 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3035 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3037 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3038 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3039 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3040 which parts a signature part applies).
3042 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3044 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3045 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3046 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3047 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3048 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3051 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3053 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3054 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3055 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3056 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3057 by translating it internally to the new call.
3059 Performance improvements
3060 ------------------------
3062 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3064 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3065 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3066 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3068 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3069 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3071 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3073 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3074 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3075 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3077 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3078 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3079 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3080 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3082 Faster initial indexing
3084 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3085 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3086 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3088 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3090 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3091 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3092 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3093 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3095 New emacs-interface features
3096 ----------------------------
3098 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3100 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3101 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3102 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3103 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3104 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3105 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3107 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3109 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3110 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3111 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3112 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3114 User-selectable From address
3116 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3117 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3118 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3119 will prompt for the from address to use.
3121 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3122 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3123 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3125 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3126 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3127 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3130 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3132 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3133 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3135 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3137 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3139 ----- Original Message -----
3141 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3142 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3143 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3144 citations work much like conventional citations.
3146 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3148 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3149 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3150 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3151 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3152 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3154 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3155 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3157 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3159 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3160 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3161 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3163 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3165 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3166 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3167 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3168 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3169 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3171 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3173 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3176 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3178 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3180 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3182 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3185 Vim interface improvements
3186 --------------------------
3188 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3190 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3191 * Implementing archive in show view
3192 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3193 * Add delete commands
3196 Bindings improvements
3197 ---------------------
3199 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3201 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3202 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3204 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3206 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3210 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3211 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3212 `list(Messages)` works now
3213 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3215 These allow, for example:
3217 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3219 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3221 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3227 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3229 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3232 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3234 New build-system features
3235 -------------------------
3237 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3239 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3240 the configure script from some other directory:
3247 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3249 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3250 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3251 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3252 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3253 manual invocation of configure.
3255 New test-suite feature
3256 ----------------------
3258 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3260 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3261 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3262 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3263 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3264 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3267 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3269 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3270 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3271 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3272 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3273 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3274 are updated to take advantage of this.
3276 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3278 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3279 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3280 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3281 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3287 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3289 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3290 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3291 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3293 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3295 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3297 to:user@elsewhere.com
3299 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3301 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3303 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3305 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3306 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3307 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3310 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3311 from the Received headers in some cases
3313 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3314 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3316 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3318 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3320 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3322 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3323 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3324 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3326 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3327 -------------------------
3329 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3331 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3332 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3333 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3335 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3337 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3338 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3339 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3342 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3344 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3345 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3346 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3347 fixed to avoid this bug.
3349 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3351 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3352 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3354 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3355 ========================
3357 New, general features
3358 ---------------------
3360 Maildir-flag synchronization
3362 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3363 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3372 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3374 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3375 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3376 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3377 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3379 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3380 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3381 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3382 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3385 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3387 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3388 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3389 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3391 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3392 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3394 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3395 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3397 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3398 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3399 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3401 New library features
3402 --------------------
3404 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3406 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3407 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3408 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3409 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3411 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3412 message with the new function:
3414 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3416 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3417 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3418 over all available filenames for a given message.
3420 New command-line features
3421 -------------------------
3423 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3425 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3426 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3427 access to the mail store itself.
3429 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3430 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3431 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3432 name of a script containing:
3434 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3436 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3437 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3443 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3445 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3447 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3449 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3450 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3451 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3452 now produces nothing).
3454 Emacs interface improvements
3455 ----------------------------
3457 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3459 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3461 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3463 Display current thread subject in a header line
3465 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3467 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3469 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3470 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3471 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3472 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3473 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3474 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3475 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3477 Vim interface improvements
3478 --------------------------
3480 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3482 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3483 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3489 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3491 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3492 ========================
3494 New command-line features
3495 -------------------------
3497 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3499 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3500 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3501 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3503 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3504 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3505 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3506 scripts. For example:
3508 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3509 <operations-on> "$file"
3512 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3514 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3515 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3516 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3517 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3518 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3519 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3521 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3523 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3524 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3525 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3526 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3528 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3530 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3531 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3532 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3533 default rather than Bcc.
3535 New library features
3536 --------------------
3538 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3540 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3541 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3546 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3548 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3549 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3550 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3551 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3552 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3553 notmuch customize interface.
3555 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3557 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3558 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3559 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3560 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3562 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3564 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3565 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3566 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3567 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3569 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3571 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3572 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3573 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3574 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3575 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3576 notmuch customize interface.
3578 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3580 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3581 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3582 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3583 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3584 notmuch customize interface.
3586 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3588 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3589 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3590 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3591 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3594 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3596 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3597 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3598 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3601 New build-system features
3602 -------------------------
3604 Various portability fixes have been applied
3606 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3607 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3608 more portable than ever before.
3610 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3612 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3613 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3614 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3616 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3617 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3618 automatically run ldconfig.
3620 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3621 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3622 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3624 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3625 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3626 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3627 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3629 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3631 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3632 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3633 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3634 used in the resulting Makefile.
3636 New test-suite features
3637 -----------------------
3639 New modularization of test suite
3641 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3642 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3643 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3644 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3645 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3646 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3647 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3648 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3650 New testing of emacs interface
3652 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3653 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3654 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3655 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3656 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3657 database via the FCC setting.
3662 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3664 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3665 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3666 persistent error of the form:
3668 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3670 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3671 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3673 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3675 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3676 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3677 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3679 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3681 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3682 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3683 parsing the notmuch results).
3685 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3687 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3690 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3691 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3692 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3697 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3699 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3700 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3701 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3702 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3703 the emacs interface.
3705 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3707 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3708 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3709 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3711 Python-binding fixes
3712 --------------------
3714 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3716 Debian-specific fixes
3717 ---------------------
3719 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3721 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3722 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3723 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3726 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3727 ==========================
3732 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3734 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3735 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3736 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3737 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3739 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3741 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3742 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3743 want notmuch to crash.
3748 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3750 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3751 directory does not exist
3756 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3758 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3759 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3761 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3762 ========================
3764 New command-line features
3765 -------------------------
3767 User-configurable tags for new messages
3769 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3770 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3771 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3772 to specify this value.
3774 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3776 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3777 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3778 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3780 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3782 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3783 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3785 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3787 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3788 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3789 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3790 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3791 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3794 Indication of author names that match a search
3796 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3797 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3798 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3799 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3800 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3801 messages in the thread are listed first.
3803 New: Python bindings
3804 --------------------
3806 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3807 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3808 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3809 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3811 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3812 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3813 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3816 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3817 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3818 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3820 Emacs interface improvements
3821 ----------------------------
3823 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3825 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3826 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3827 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3828 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3829 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3830 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3831 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3832 but without any of the disadvantages).
3834 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3835 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3836 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3839 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3840 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3841 instead running something like:
3843 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3845 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3846 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3847 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3850 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3852 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3853 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3854 tweaked by the user.
3856 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3857 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3858 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3861 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3862 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3863 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3866 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3868 This support currently relies on an external program,
3869 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3870 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3871 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3872 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3873 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3876 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3877 notmuch) is available via:
3879 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3881 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3882 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3883 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3885 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3887 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3888 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3889 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3890 making this automatic in a future release.
3892 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3894 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3895 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3896 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3897 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3898 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3899 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3902 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3904 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3905 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3906 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3908 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3910 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3911 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3912 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3914 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3915 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3916 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3917 other representation.
3919 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3920 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3923 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3925 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3926 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3927 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3929 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3930 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3931 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3933 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3935 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3936 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3937 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3938 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3939 to display the search result.
3941 More flexible handling of header visibility
3943 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3944 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3945 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3946 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3947 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3948 with the 'h' keybinding.
3950 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3951 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3952 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3954 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3956 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3958 Customizable formatting of search results
3960 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3961 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3962 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3964 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3966 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3968 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3973 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3975 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3976 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3977 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3978 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3984 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3986 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3987 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3989 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3991 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3992 accept are now all accepted.
3997 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3999 Better display of output from failed tests
4001 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4002 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4004 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4005 ========================
4007 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4008 detailed release notes this time!
4010 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4011 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4013 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4014 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4015 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4016 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4023 Better guessing of From: header
4025 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4026 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4027 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4028 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4029 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4032 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4034 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4035 guaranteed to match all messages.
4037 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4039 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4040 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4041 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4042 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4043 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4046 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4049 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4050 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4051 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4052 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4057 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4059 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4060 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4061 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4062 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4064 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4066 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4068 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4069 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4070 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4072 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4074 Previously, the user might see:
4076 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4080 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4082 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4083 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4084 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4085 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4087 Emacs client features
4088 ---------------------
4090 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4092 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4093 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4094 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4095 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4096 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4098 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4101 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4102 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4103 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4104 search with the '*' binding.
4106 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4108 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4109 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4112 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4114 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4115 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4116 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4118 Build-system features
4119 ---------------------
4121 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4123 Add support to configure for many standard options
4125 We include actual support for:
4127 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4129 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4131 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4132 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4134 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4135 separate "make install-emacs"
4137 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4139 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4140 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4141 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4143 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4146 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4147 ========================
4149 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4151 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4152 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4154 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4155 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4156 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4157 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4158 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4159 tags from messages in a thread.
4166 indent-tabs-mode: nil