1 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
2 ===========================
7 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
8 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
9 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
10 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
11 status returns for the same 3 functions.
13 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
14 =========================
19 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
20 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
21 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
22 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
23 s-expression query support.
28 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
33 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
35 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
37 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
39 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
41 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
42 ===========================
47 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
49 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
50 ===========================
55 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
56 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
59 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
60 =========================
65 Correct documentation about transactions.
67 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
68 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
70 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
75 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
81 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
82 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
83 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
85 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
87 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
89 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
91 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
93 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
95 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
98 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
103 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
104 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
105 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
106 split, following an old library API change.
111 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
116 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
118 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
120 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
121 ===========================
126 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
129 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
132 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
133 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
138 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
140 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
141 ===========================
146 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
152 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
157 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
162 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
167 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
168 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
170 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
171 ===========================
176 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
177 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
178 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
180 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
181 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
182 database in a pre-new hook.
184 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
185 default worked only in "notmuch config".
190 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
191 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
193 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
194 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
195 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
197 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
198 =========================
203 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
204 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
205 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
206 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
207 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
208 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
209 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
210 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
211 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
212 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
213 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
218 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
219 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
221 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
222 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
223 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
224 - `notmuch_config_get`
226 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
227 now exposed (and generalized).
229 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
230 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
231 session has been fixed.
233 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
234 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
239 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
240 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
242 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
243 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
248 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
249 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
250 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
251 when prompting for senders.
253 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
254 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
257 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
259 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
261 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
262 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
263 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
264 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
265 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
266 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
267 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
269 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
270 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
272 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
273 you should change it to:
274 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
276 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
277 ===========================
282 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
287 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
289 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
290 ===========================
295 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
300 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
305 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
307 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
308 ===========================
313 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
314 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
316 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
317 ===========================
322 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
327 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
328 with a C++ header for some compilers.
330 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
332 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
333 =========================
338 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
339 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
340 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
342 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
344 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
346 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
348 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
351 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
353 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
354 search, show and tree mode)
356 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
359 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
362 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
363 always be newest first.
368 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
369 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
370 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
376 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
377 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
378 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
379 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
381 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
382 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
383 non-status providing versions.
385 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
386 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
388 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
389 promised in the documentation.
394 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
395 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
396 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
401 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
402 development version).
407 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
412 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
414 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
415 =========================
420 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
421 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
422 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
425 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
431 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
432 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
433 notmuch-properties(7)).
438 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
439 has protected headers (see
440 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
441 notmuch-properties(7)).
446 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
448 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
449 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
455 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
458 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
459 ===========================
464 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
466 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
471 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
473 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
474 ===========================
479 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
480 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
482 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
483 ===========================
488 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
490 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
491 =========================
496 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
497 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
500 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
501 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
502 the set of headers to be indexed.
504 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
507 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
508 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
509 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
512 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
513 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
514 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
516 Command Line Interface
517 ----------------------
519 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
522 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
524 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
525 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
526 more details about what is included there. This status includes
527 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
532 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
533 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
535 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
537 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
539 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
541 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
543 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
546 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
548 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
549 and may be removed in a future release.
551 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
557 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
559 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
560 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
565 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
566 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
567 cryptography support.
572 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
573 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
574 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
576 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
577 ===========================
579 Command line interface
580 ----------------------
582 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
583 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
585 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
586 ===========================
591 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
592 by message properties.
597 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
599 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
600 ===========================
605 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
610 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
611 now needed to build this documentation.
613 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
614 ===========================
619 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
620 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
622 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
623 =========================
630 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
631 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
632 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
633 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
634 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
637 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
639 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
640 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
641 correct encoding for such messages.
643 Command Line Interface
644 ----------------------
646 Support relative database paths
648 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
649 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
650 to $HOME of the invoking user.
655 Improve stderr handling
657 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
658 needed on e.g. macOS.
660 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
662 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
667 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
668 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
674 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
675 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
681 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
682 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
685 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
686 =========================
691 Add support for thread:{} queries
693 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
694 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
695 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
697 Command Line Interface
698 ----------------------
700 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
702 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
704 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
706 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
707 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
708 does not have to be available during message receipt.
713 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
719 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
720 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
722 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
723 ===========================
728 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
730 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
731 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
732 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
734 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
736 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
737 related abort in `notmuch show`.
739 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
740 ===========================
745 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
746 better late than never.
749 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
750 =========================
752 Command Line Interface
753 ----------------------
755 Support for re-indexing existing messages
757 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
758 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
759 change the way specific messages are indexed.
761 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
762 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
763 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
765 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
767 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
769 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
771 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
772 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
773 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
774 the setting of `new.tags`.
776 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
778 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
780 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
782 This inserts into the top level folder.
784 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
786 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
788 New option --output=address for notmuch address
790 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
792 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
794 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
795 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
796 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
798 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
803 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
805 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
806 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
807 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
808 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
809 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
810 config set index.decrypt true".
812 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
813 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
814 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
815 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
816 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
817 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
818 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
819 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
821 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
822 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
823 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
824 this feature without considering the security of your index.
829 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
831 Use make-process when available
833 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
834 notmuch command without using temporary files.
839 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
841 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
842 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
843 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
844 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
846 New functions to count files
848 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
849 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
851 New function to remove properties
853 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
854 drop all properties with a common pattern:
855 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
857 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
859 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
860 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
861 possibility of NULL was not documented.
863 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
865 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
866 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
867 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
868 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
869 operator may decide to change from message to message.
876 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
877 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
878 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
884 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
886 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
887 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
889 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
891 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
893 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
895 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
900 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
901 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
903 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
904 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
905 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
906 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
907 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
908 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
913 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
915 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
916 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
917 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
918 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
920 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
921 ===========================
926 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
927 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
930 Command Line Interface
931 ----------------------
933 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
934 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
937 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
938 ===========================
940 Command Line Interface
941 ----------------------
943 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
944 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
949 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
952 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
953 ===========================
958 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
961 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
962 =========================
967 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
969 Skip HTML tags when indexing
971 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
973 Command Line Interface
974 ----------------------
976 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
978 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
983 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
985 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
986 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
989 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
994 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
996 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
997 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
999 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1001 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1002 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1005 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1007 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1009 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1011 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1012 ===========================
1014 Command Line Interface
1015 ----------------------
1017 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1022 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1024 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1025 ===========================
1030 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1032 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1033 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1036 Command Line Interface
1037 ----------------------
1039 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1041 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1043 Fix bug in dump header
1045 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1046 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1047 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1052 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1054 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1055 =========================
1060 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1062 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1065 Command Line Interface
1066 ----------------------
1068 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1070 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1071 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1072 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1074 New default output format to 3
1076 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1077 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1078 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1079 default format changes.
1084 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1086 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1087 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1088 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1089 or tree view to resume.
1091 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1092 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1093 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1096 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1097 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1101 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1102 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1103 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1104 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1105 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1109 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1110 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1111 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1112 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1113 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1114 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1118 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1119 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1121 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1123 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1124 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1125 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1126 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1127 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1128 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1129 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1130 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1133 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1135 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1136 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1137 only tagged the current thread.)
1139 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1141 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1142 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1143 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1145 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1147 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1148 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1149 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1150 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1151 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1152 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1153 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1155 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1157 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1158 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1159 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1164 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1166 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1169 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1171 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1174 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1175 ===========================
1180 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1182 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1183 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1184 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1187 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1188 ===========================
1190 Command Line Interface
1191 ----------------------
1193 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1198 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1200 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1201 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1202 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1204 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1205 ===========================
1210 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1211 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1213 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1214 ===========================
1216 Command Line Interface
1217 ----------------------
1219 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1221 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1222 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1223 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1228 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1230 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1231 ===========================
1233 Command Line Interface
1234 ----------------------
1236 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1241 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1243 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1244 ===========================
1249 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1251 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1252 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1253 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1255 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1257 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1259 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1260 ===========================
1265 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1267 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1272 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1274 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1275 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1276 the original colours.
1278 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1279 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1281 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1283 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1284 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1285 bug, and hence the test.
1287 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1288 =========================
1290 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1291 ---------------------
1293 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1295 Support for single argument date: queries
1297 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1299 Support for blocking opens
1301 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1302 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1304 Support for named queries
1306 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1307 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1308 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1313 Message property API
1315 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1316 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1317 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1318 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1320 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1322 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1327 Support for compile time options
1329 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1330 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1333 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1335 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1336 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1337 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1338 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1339 scripts to ignore it.
1344 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1346 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1347 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1348 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1350 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1351 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1352 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1353 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1354 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1355 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1356 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1358 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1359 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1362 Make internal address completion customizable
1364 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1365 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1366 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1367 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1370 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1372 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1373 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1374 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1375 completion for the current buffer.
1377 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1378 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1379 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1383 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1384 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1385 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1386 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1387 will be added instead.
1389 Face customization is easier
1391 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1392 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1393 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1394 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1396 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1401 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1406 Go bindings moved to contrib
1408 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1410 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1412 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1413 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1415 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1417 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1418 ===========================
1425 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1426 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1428 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1430 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1432 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1433 ===========================
1438 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1440 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1445 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1450 Use `env` to locate perl.
1455 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1457 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1459 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1461 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1463 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1464 =========================
1471 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1472 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1474 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1476 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1477 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1478 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1483 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1484 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1485 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1487 Command Line Interface
1488 ----------------------
1490 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1492 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1497 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1502 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1504 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1505 parts are now included in replies.
1507 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1508 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1509 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1510 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1512 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1514 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1516 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1518 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1519 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1520 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1521 forwards only the current message.
1523 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1525 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1526 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1527 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1528 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1529 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1530 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1531 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1532 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1535 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1536 longer generate empty buffers
1538 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1539 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1540 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1541 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1542 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1544 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1546 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1549 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1551 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1554 Address completion improvements
1556 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1557 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1558 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1559 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1560 interactive address completion.
1562 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1564 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1565 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1566 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1571 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1572 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1573 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1579 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1580 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1581 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1582 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1583 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1584 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1586 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1587 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1588 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1589 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1590 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1591 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1593 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1594 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1596 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1597 =========================
1602 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1605 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1607 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1608 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1609 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1611 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1612 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1614 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1615 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1616 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1618 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1620 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1621 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1622 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1623 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1624 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1625 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1630 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1631 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1634 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1635 option to configure.
1637 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1639 Command Line Interface
1640 ----------------------
1642 Database revision tracking
1644 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1645 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1646 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1647 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1649 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1651 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1652 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1653 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1654 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1655 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1656 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1657 manual page for further information.
1662 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1664 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1665 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1667 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1669 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1670 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1671 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1673 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1675 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1677 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1678 customization as well.
1680 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1682 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1684 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1686 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1688 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1689 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1690 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1691 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1693 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1695 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1696 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1697 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1698 this variable to 10000.
1703 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1704 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1706 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1708 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1709 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1710 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1711 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1712 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1713 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1714 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1715 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1716 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1719 Database revision tracking
1721 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1722 query parser and the new function
1723 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1725 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1727 Deprecated functions
1729 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1730 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1731 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1732 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1737 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1739 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1740 ===========================
1745 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1747 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1748 ===========================
1753 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1755 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1756 =========================
1758 Command-Line Interface
1759 ----------------------
1761 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1763 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1764 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1765 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1767 Path to gpg is now configurable
1769 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1770 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1775 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1777 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1782 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1787 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1792 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1794 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1795 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1797 New error logging facility
1799 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1800 output formerly printed to stderr.
1802 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1804 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1806 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1808 Fix for rounding of seconds
1813 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1815 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1816 documentation has been removed.
1818 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1820 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1821 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1826 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1827 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1828 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1833 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1834 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1835 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1836 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1837 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1838 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1841 git checkout config origin/config
1843 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1845 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1846 =========================
1851 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1852 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1853 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1854 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1855 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1856 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1857 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1859 Command-Line Interface
1860 ----------------------
1862 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1864 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1865 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1866 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1867 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1868 script callers should still check the return value.
1870 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1872 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1873 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1874 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1875 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1876 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1877 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1878 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1880 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1882 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1883 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1884 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1886 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1888 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1889 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1890 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1891 currently unmaintained.
1893 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1895 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1896 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1897 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1898 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1900 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1902 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1903 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1904 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1905 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1906 count of duplicate addresses.
1911 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1913 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1914 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1915 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1918 Improved handling of the unread tag
1920 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1921 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1922 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1923 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1924 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1925 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1926 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1928 Expanded default saved search settings
1930 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1931 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1933 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1935 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1936 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1937 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1939 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1941 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1942 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1943 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1944 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1945 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1946 the variable for details.
1951 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1953 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1954 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1955 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1956 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1958 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1960 Previously, library users were required to call
1961 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1962 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1963 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1964 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1965 too out of date for that API.
1967 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1969 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1970 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1971 atomic section will be aborted.
1973 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1974 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1976 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1978 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1979 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1980 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1981 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1982 messages into the same thread.
1987 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1988 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1989 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1990 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1991 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1992 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1997 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1998 from the config file. Use something like:
2002 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2003 "footer": "</body></html>",
2012 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2017 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2018 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2019 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2021 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2022 ===========================
2027 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2029 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2031 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2033 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2034 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2036 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2038 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2041 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2042 ===========================
2044 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2049 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2051 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2053 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2055 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2057 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2063 Use --quick when starting emacs
2065 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2067 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2069 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2071 Command-Line Interface
2072 ----------------------
2074 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2075 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2080 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2082 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2083 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2085 Fix for phrase indexing
2087 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2088 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2089 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2094 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2096 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2097 unintentionally removed.
2099 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2100 =========================
2105 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2106 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2107 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2108 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2109 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2110 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2111 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2112 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2113 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2119 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2121 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2122 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2123 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2124 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2125 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2126 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2127 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2128 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2130 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2132 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2133 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2134 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2135 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2138 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2140 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2141 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2142 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2143 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2144 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2145 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2146 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2151 Notmuch database upgrade
2153 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2154 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2155 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2156 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2157 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2158 released version of Notmuch before now.
2160 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2162 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2163 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2164 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2165 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2167 Message header parsing changes
2169 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2170 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2171 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2172 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2173 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2174 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2176 Command-Line Interface
2177 ----------------------
2179 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2181 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2183 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2185 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2187 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2189 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2190 user does not want it.
2192 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2194 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2195 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2196 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2197 support formatted output.
2199 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2201 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2202 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2203 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2211 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2212 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2213 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2214 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2215 `~/.emacs` with these.
2217 Changed format for saved searches
2219 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2220 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2221 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2222 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2225 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2226 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2227 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2228 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2230 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2231 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2232 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2234 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2235 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2236 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2237 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2238 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2240 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2242 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2243 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2244 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2246 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2248 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2249 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2250 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2251 message had been unread).
2253 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2254 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2255 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2256 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2258 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2259 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2260 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2262 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2263 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2264 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2265 to tags already present.
2269 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2270 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2271 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2272 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2273 these differ from each other.
2274 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2276 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2278 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2279 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2280 for these Emacs versions.
2282 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2284 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2285 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2287 Bug fixes for sender identities
2289 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2290 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2291 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2293 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2295 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2296 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2297 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2298 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2300 Reply pushes mark before signature
2302 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2303 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2304 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2306 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2308 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2309 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2315 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2316 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2318 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2319 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2320 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2321 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2323 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2324 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2325 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2326 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2327 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2329 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2331 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2332 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2334 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2335 =========================
2337 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2338 ---------------------------------------
2340 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2341 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2342 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2343 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2344 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2345 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2346 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2350 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2351 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2353 Command-Line Interface
2354 ----------------------
2356 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2358 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2359 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2360 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2361 print for each message.
2363 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2364 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2365 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2366 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2368 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2370 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2371 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2372 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2374 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2376 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2377 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2378 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2379 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2381 `notmuch compact` command
2383 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2384 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2385 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2386 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2387 move the compacted database into place.
2392 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2394 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2395 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2396 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2397 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2398 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2399 and multiple threads.
2401 Using `notmuch-tree`
2403 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2405 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2406 search, show and tree mode itself)
2408 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2411 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2412 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2414 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2416 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2417 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2418 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2419 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2420 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2421 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2422 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2424 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2426 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2427 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2428 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2429 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2430 thread when the search was performed.
2432 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2434 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2435 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2436 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2438 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2440 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2441 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2444 Built-in help improvements
2446 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2447 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2448 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2450 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2452 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2453 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2454 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2456 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2458 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2459 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2461 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2463 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2464 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2465 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2466 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2468 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2470 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2471 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2472 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2473 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2475 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2477 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2478 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2479 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2481 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2483 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2484 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2485 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2487 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2489 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2490 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2491 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2492 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2493 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2495 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2497 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2498 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2499 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2500 the body part of the message.
2505 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2506 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2507 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2509 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2510 =========================
2512 Command-Line Interface
2513 ----------------------
2515 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2517 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2518 folder and notmuch index.
2520 `notmuch count --batch` option
2522 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2523 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2525 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2527 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2528 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2529 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2532 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2534 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2535 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2536 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2537 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2538 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2541 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2543 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2544 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2546 Top level option to specify configuration file
2548 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2549 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2551 Bash command-line completion
2553 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2554 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2555 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2556 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2557 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2558 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2559 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2560 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2561 bash-completion package.
2563 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2568 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2570 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2571 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2572 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2573 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2574 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2575 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2576 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2577 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2579 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2581 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2582 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2583 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2585 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2587 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2588 previous thread in the search results.
2590 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2592 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2593 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2595 Faster search and show
2597 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2598 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2599 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2600 threads should show faster.
2604 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2605 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2606 in question was now removed from this release.
2611 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2612 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2617 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2619 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2620 ===========================
2625 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2627 Internal test framework changes
2628 -------------------------------
2630 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2631 being unimplemented.
2633 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2634 ===========================
2636 Internal test framework changes
2637 -------------------------------
2639 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2640 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2642 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2643 =========================
2648 Date range search support
2650 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2651 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2652 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2653 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2654 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2657 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2659 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2660 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2661 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2662 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2663 but may be removed in a future release.
2665 Command-Line Interface
2666 ----------------------
2668 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2670 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2671 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2673 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2675 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2676 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2677 officially deprecated.
2679 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2681 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2682 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2683 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2685 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2687 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2688 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2691 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2692 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2693 dump/restore format.
2695 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2697 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2698 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2699 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2701 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2703 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2704 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2705 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2707 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2709 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2710 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2711 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2712 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2717 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2719 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2720 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2721 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2722 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2724 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2726 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2727 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2728 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2729 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2730 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2731 the behavior of this, see
2732 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2733 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2735 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2736 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2737 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2739 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2741 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2742 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2745 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2747 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2748 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2749 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2750 simply displayed in place of the message.
2752 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2754 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2755 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2757 Improved text/calendar content handling
2759 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2760 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2761 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2762 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2764 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2766 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2767 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2768 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2769 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2771 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2773 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2774 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2775 for HTML email containing images.
2777 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2779 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2781 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2783 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2786 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2788 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2789 the point where it was.
2791 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2793 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2794 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2795 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2796 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2797 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2799 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2801 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2802 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2803 thread instead of the message id.
2805 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2806 -----------------------------
2808 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2809 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2810 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2811 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2812 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2813 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2814 further details and installation.
2819 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2821 Internal test framework changes
2822 -------------------------------
2824 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2826 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2827 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2828 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2829 can result in buggy behavior.
2831 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2832 =========================
2837 Maildir tag synchronization
2839 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2840 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2841 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2842 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2843 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2844 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2847 Command-Line Interface
2848 ----------------------
2850 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2851 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2852 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2853 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2854 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2860 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2862 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2864 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2865 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2866 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2868 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2870 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2871 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2872 span multiple lines.
2874 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2876 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2877 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2878 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2879 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2880 inside the result or message.
2882 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2884 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2885 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2887 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2888 user-specified formatting
2890 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2891 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2892 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2893 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2894 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2896 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2897 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2899 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2900 ===========================
2905 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2906 compilation error for this contrib package.
2908 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2909 ===========================
2914 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2916 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2917 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2918 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2919 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2921 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2922 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2925 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2926 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2927 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2928 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2931 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2933 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2936 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2937 =========================
2939 Command-Line Interface
2940 ----------------------
2944 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2945 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2946 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2947 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2949 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2950 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2951 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2952 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2956 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2957 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2959 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2960 tag in your query, for example:
2962 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2964 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2965 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2967 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2968 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2970 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2972 Raw show format changes
2974 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2975 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2976 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2977 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2978 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2979 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2980 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2981 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2983 Listing configuration items
2985 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2991 Changes to tagging interface
2993 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2994 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2995 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2996 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2997 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2998 for more information.
3000 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3001 may need to update in custom configurations.
3003 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3005 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3006 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3007 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3008 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3011 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3012 -----------------------------
3014 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3015 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3016 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3017 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3018 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3019 contrib/ from now on.
3024 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3025 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3027 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3028 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3030 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3031 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3032 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3034 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3035 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3037 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3038 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3039 returning the new database object or directory object.
3046 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3047 compatible with go 1.
3049 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3050 =========================
3052 Command-Line Interface
3053 ----------------------
3057 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3058 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3059 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3060 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3062 Mail store folder/file ignore
3064 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3065 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3066 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3068 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3069 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3071 Unified help and manual pages
3073 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3074 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3077 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3079 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3080 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3088 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3089 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3090 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3091 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3093 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3095 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3096 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3098 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3101 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3102 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3103 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3105 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3107 should be changed to:
3109 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3111 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3113 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3114 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3116 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3118 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3119 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3120 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3121 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3122 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3123 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3127 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3128 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3129 of Mailing List Archives.
3131 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3133 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3134 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3137 Show view archiving key binding changes
3139 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3140 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3141 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3142 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3143 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3146 Support text/calendar MIME type
3148 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3151 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3153 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3154 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3155 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3156 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3158 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3160 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3161 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3162 messages blue by default in the search view.
3166 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3167 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3174 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3177 Python bindings changes
3178 -----------------------
3180 Python 3.2 compatibility
3182 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3184 Added missing unicode conversions
3186 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3187 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3188 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3193 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3195 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3196 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3197 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3198 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3199 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3201 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3202 ===========================
3207 Fix error handling in python bindings
3209 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3210 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3211 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3212 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3214 Quote MML tags in replies
3216 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3217 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3218 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3219 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3220 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3221 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3222 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3223 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3225 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3226 =========================
3228 Command-Line Interface
3229 ----------------------
3233 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3234 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3235 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3236 importing new messages into the database.
3238 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3240 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3241 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3242 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3247 Automatic tag query optimization
3249 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3250 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3251 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3253 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3255 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3256 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3257 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3262 Reduction of memory leaks
3264 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3265 and fixed in this release.
3272 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3273 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3274 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3277 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3279 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3280 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3281 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3284 Improvements in saved search management
3286 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3287 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3288 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3290 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3292 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3293 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3294 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3296 New face for crypto parts headers
3298 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3299 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3300 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3303 Use space as default thousands separator
3305 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3306 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3307 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3309 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3310 buttonized id: links
3312 New function notmuch-show-advance
3314 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3315 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3316 be bound to SPC with:
3318 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3320 Various performance improvements
3325 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3326 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3329 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3330 ===========================
3335 Fix crash in python bindings
3337 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3338 for some, but not all users.
3340 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3341 ===========================
3346 Fix `--help` argument
3348 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3349 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3350 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3352 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3353 =========================
3355 New build and testing features
3356 ------------------------------
3358 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3359 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3360 prerequisites is improved.
3362 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3364 New command-line features
3365 -------------------------
3367 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3369 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3370 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3373 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3375 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3376 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3377 favour of using stdout.
3379 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3381 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3382 limit the number of results shown.
3384 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3386 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3387 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3390 New emacs UI features
3391 ---------------------
3393 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3395 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3396 starting with "tag:".
3398 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3400 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3401 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3403 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3405 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3407 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3409 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3410 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3415 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3417 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3419 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3420 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3421 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3422 requires a database rebuild:
3424 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3425 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3427 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3429 New collection of add-on tools
3430 ------------------------------
3432 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3433 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3434 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3437 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3439 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3440 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3441 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3443 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3444 ========================
3446 New, general features
3447 ---------------------
3449 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3451 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3452 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3453 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3454 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3455 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3462 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3463 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3465 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3469 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3470 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3471 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3474 Python bindings changes
3475 -----------------------
3477 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3479 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3480 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3481 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3482 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3483 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3484 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3486 Ruby bindings changes
3487 ---------------------
3489 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3490 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3491 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3492 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3497 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3499 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3500 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3502 Reply formatting cleanup
3503 ------------------------
3505 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3506 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3508 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3509 ========================
3511 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3513 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3514 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3515 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3516 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3519 Improved Build system portability
3521 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3522 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3523 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3525 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3527 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3529 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3531 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3532 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3533 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3535 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3536 ========================
3538 Vim interface improvements
3539 --------------------------
3541 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3543 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3544 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3545 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3546 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3547 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3549 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3551 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3552 * fix compose temp file name
3554 Python Bindings changes
3555 -----------------------
3557 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3559 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3560 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3562 Build-System improvements
3563 -------------------------
3565 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3567 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3570 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3571 ==========================
3576 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3578 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3579 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3581 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3582 =======================
3584 New, general features
3585 ---------------------
3587 Folder-based searching
3589 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3590 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3591 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3595 For example, one might use things such as:
3601 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3602 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3604 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3605 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3606 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3607 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3609 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3610 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3611 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3614 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3615 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3617 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3619 Support for PGP/MIME
3621 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3622 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3623 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3625 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3627 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3628 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3630 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3631 notmuch will receive these tags.
3633 New command-line features
3634 -------------------------
3636 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3638 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3639 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3641 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3643 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3644 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3645 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3647 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3649 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3650 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3651 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3652 which parts a signature part applies).
3654 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3656 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3657 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3658 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3659 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3660 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3663 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3665 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3666 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3667 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3668 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3669 by translating it internally to the new call.
3671 Performance improvements
3672 ------------------------
3674 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3676 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3677 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3678 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3680 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3681 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3683 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3685 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3686 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3687 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3689 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3690 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3691 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3692 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3694 Faster initial indexing
3696 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3697 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3698 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3700 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3702 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3703 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3704 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3705 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3707 New emacs-interface features
3708 ----------------------------
3710 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3712 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3713 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3714 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3715 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3716 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3717 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3719 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3721 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3722 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3723 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3724 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3726 User-selectable From address
3728 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3729 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3730 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3731 will prompt for the from address to use.
3733 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3734 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3735 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3737 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3738 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3739 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3742 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3744 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3745 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3747 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3749 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3751 ----- Original Message -----
3753 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3754 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3755 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3756 citations work much like conventional citations.
3758 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3760 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3761 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3762 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3763 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3764 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3766 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3767 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3769 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3771 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3772 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3773 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3775 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3777 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3778 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3779 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3780 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3781 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3783 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3785 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3788 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3790 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3792 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3794 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3797 Vim interface improvements
3798 --------------------------
3800 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3802 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3803 * Implementing archive in show view
3804 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3805 * Add delete commands
3808 Bindings improvements
3809 ---------------------
3811 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3813 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3814 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3816 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3818 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3822 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3823 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3824 `list(Messages)` works now
3825 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3827 These allow, for example:
3829 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3831 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3833 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3839 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3841 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3844 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3846 New build-system features
3847 -------------------------
3849 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3851 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3852 the configure script from some other directory:
3859 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3861 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3862 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3863 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3864 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3865 manual invocation of configure.
3867 New test-suite feature
3868 ----------------------
3870 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3872 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3873 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3874 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3875 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3876 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3879 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3881 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3882 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3883 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3884 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3885 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3886 are updated to take advantage of this.
3888 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3890 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3891 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3892 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3893 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3899 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3901 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3902 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3903 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3905 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3907 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3909 to:user@elsewhere.com
3911 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3913 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3915 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3917 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3918 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3919 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3922 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3923 from the Received headers in some cases
3925 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3926 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3928 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3930 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3932 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3934 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3935 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3936 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3938 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3939 -------------------------
3941 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3943 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3944 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3945 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3947 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3949 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3950 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3951 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3954 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3956 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3957 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3958 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3959 fixed to avoid this bug.
3961 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3963 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3964 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3966 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3967 ========================
3969 New, general features
3970 ---------------------
3972 Maildir-flag synchronization
3974 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3975 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3984 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3986 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3987 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3988 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3989 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3991 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3992 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3993 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3994 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3997 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3999 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4000 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4001 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4003 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4004 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4006 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4007 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4009 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4010 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4011 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4013 New library features
4014 --------------------
4016 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4018 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4019 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4020 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4021 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4023 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4024 message with the new function:
4026 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4028 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4029 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4030 over all available filenames for a given message.
4032 New command-line features
4033 -------------------------
4035 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4037 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4038 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4039 access to the mail store itself.
4041 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4042 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4043 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4044 name of a script containing:
4046 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4048 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4049 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4055 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4057 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4059 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4061 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4062 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4063 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4064 now produces nothing).
4066 Emacs interface improvements
4067 ----------------------------
4069 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4071 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4073 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4075 Display current thread subject in a header line
4077 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4079 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4081 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4082 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4083 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4084 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4085 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4086 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4087 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4089 Vim interface improvements
4090 --------------------------
4092 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4094 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4095 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4101 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4103 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4104 ========================
4106 New command-line features
4107 -------------------------
4109 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4111 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4112 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4113 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4115 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4116 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4117 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4118 scripts. For example:
4120 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4121 <operations-on> "$file"
4124 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4126 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4127 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4128 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4129 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4130 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4131 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4133 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4135 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4136 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4137 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4138 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4140 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4142 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4143 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4144 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4145 default rather than Bcc.
4147 New library features
4148 --------------------
4150 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4152 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4153 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4158 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4160 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4161 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4162 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4163 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4164 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4165 notmuch customize interface.
4167 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4169 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4170 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4171 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4172 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4174 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4176 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4177 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4178 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4179 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4181 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4183 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4184 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4185 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4186 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4187 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4188 notmuch customize interface.
4190 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4192 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4193 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4194 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4195 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4196 notmuch customize interface.
4198 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4200 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4201 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4202 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4203 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4206 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4208 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4209 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4210 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4213 New build-system features
4214 -------------------------
4216 Various portability fixes have been applied
4218 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4219 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4220 more portable than ever before.
4222 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4224 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4225 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4226 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4228 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4229 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4230 automatically run ldconfig.
4232 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4233 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4234 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4236 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4237 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4238 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4239 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4241 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4243 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4244 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4245 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4246 used in the resulting Makefile.
4248 New test-suite features
4249 -----------------------
4251 New modularization of test suite
4253 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4254 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4255 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4256 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4257 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4258 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4259 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4260 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4262 New testing of emacs interface
4264 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4265 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4266 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4267 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4268 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4269 database via the FCC setting.
4274 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4276 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4277 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4278 persistent error of the form:
4280 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4282 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4283 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4285 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4287 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4288 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4289 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4291 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4293 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4294 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4295 parsing the notmuch results).
4297 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4299 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4302 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4303 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4304 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4309 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4311 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4312 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4313 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4314 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4315 the emacs interface.
4317 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4319 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4320 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4321 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4323 Python-binding fixes
4324 --------------------
4326 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4328 Debian-specific fixes
4329 ---------------------
4331 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4333 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4334 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4335 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4338 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4339 ==========================
4344 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4346 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4347 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4348 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4349 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4351 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4353 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4354 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4355 want notmuch to crash.
4360 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4362 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4363 directory does not exist
4368 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4370 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4371 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4373 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4374 ========================
4376 New command-line features
4377 -------------------------
4379 User-configurable tags for new messages
4381 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4382 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4383 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4384 to specify this value.
4386 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4388 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4389 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4390 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4392 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4394 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4395 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4397 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4399 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4400 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4401 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4402 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4403 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4406 Indication of author names that match a search
4408 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4409 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4410 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4411 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4412 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4413 messages in the thread are listed first.
4415 New: Python bindings
4416 --------------------
4418 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4419 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4420 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4421 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4423 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4424 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4425 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4428 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4429 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4430 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4432 Emacs interface improvements
4433 ----------------------------
4435 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4437 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4438 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4439 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4440 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4441 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4442 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4443 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4444 but without any of the disadvantages).
4446 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4447 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4448 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4451 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4452 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4453 instead running something like:
4455 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4457 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4458 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4459 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4462 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4464 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4465 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4466 tweaked by the user.
4468 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4469 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4470 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4473 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4474 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4475 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4478 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4480 This support currently relies on an external program,
4481 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4482 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4483 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4484 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4485 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4488 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4489 notmuch) is available via:
4491 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4493 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4494 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4495 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4497 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4499 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4500 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4501 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4502 making this automatic in a future release.
4504 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4506 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4507 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4508 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4509 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4510 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4511 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4514 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4516 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4517 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4518 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4520 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4522 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4523 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4524 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4526 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4527 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4528 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4529 other representation.
4531 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4532 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4535 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4537 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4538 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4539 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4541 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4542 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4543 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4545 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4547 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4548 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4549 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4550 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4551 to display the search result.
4553 More flexible handling of header visibility
4555 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4556 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4557 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4558 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4559 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4560 with the 'h' keybinding.
4562 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4563 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4564 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4566 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4568 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4570 Customizable formatting of search results
4572 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4573 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4574 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4576 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4578 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4580 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4585 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4587 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4588 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4589 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4590 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4596 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4598 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4599 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4601 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4603 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4604 accept are now all accepted.
4609 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4611 Better display of output from failed tests
4613 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4614 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4616 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4617 ========================
4619 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4620 detailed release notes this time!
4622 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4623 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4625 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4626 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4627 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4628 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4635 Better guessing of From: header
4637 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4638 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4639 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4640 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4641 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4644 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4646 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4647 guaranteed to match all messages.
4649 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4651 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4652 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4653 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4654 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4655 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4658 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4661 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4662 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4663 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4664 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4669 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4671 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4672 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4673 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4674 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4676 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4678 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4680 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4681 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4682 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4684 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4686 Previously, the user might see:
4688 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4692 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4694 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4695 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4696 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4697 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4699 Emacs client features
4700 ---------------------
4702 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4704 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4705 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4706 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4707 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4708 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4710 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4713 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4714 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4715 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4716 search with the '*' binding.
4718 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4720 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4721 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4724 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4726 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4727 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4728 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4730 Build-system features
4731 ---------------------
4733 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4735 Add support to configure for many standard options
4737 We include actual support for:
4739 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4741 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4743 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4744 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4746 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4747 separate "make install-emacs"
4749 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4751 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4752 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4753 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4755 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4758 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4759 ========================
4761 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4763 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4764 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4766 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4767 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4768 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4769 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4770 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4771 tags from messages in a thread.
4778 indent-tabs-mode: nil