1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Correct documentatation about transactions.
9 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
10 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
12 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
17 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
23 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
24 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
25 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
27 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
29 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
34 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
36 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
37 ===========================
42 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
45 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
48 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
49 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
54 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
56 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
57 ===========================
62 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
68 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
73 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
78 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
83 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
84 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
86 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
87 ===========================
92 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
93 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
94 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
96 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
97 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
98 database in a pre-new hook.
100 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
101 default worked only in "notmuch config".
106 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
107 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
109 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
110 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
111 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
113 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
114 =========================
119 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
120 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
121 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
122 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
123 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
124 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
125 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
126 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
127 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
128 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
129 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
134 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
135 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
137 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
138 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
139 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
140 - `notmuch_config_get`
142 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
143 now exposed (and generalized).
145 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
146 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
147 session has been fixed.
149 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
150 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
155 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
156 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
158 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
159 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
164 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
165 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
166 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
167 when prompting for senders.
169 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
170 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
173 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
175 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
177 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
178 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
179 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
180 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
181 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
182 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
183 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
185 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
186 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
188 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
189 you should change it to:
190 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
192 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
193 ===========================
198 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
203 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
205 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
206 ===========================
211 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
216 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
221 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
223 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
224 ===========================
229 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
230 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
232 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
233 ===========================
238 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
243 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
244 with a C++ header for some compilers.
246 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
248 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
249 =========================
254 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
255 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
256 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
258 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
260 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
262 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
264 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
267 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
269 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
270 search, show and tree mode)
272 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
275 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
278 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
279 always be newest first.
284 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
285 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
286 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
292 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
293 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
294 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
295 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
297 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
298 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
299 non-status providing versions.
301 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
302 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
304 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
305 promised in the documentation.
310 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
311 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
312 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
317 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
318 development version).
323 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
328 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
330 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
331 =========================
336 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
337 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
338 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
341 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
347 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
348 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
349 notmuch-properties(7)).
354 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
355 has protected headers (see
356 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
357 notmuch-properties(7)).
362 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
364 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
365 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
371 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
374 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
375 ===========================
380 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
382 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
387 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
389 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
390 ===========================
395 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
396 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
398 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
399 ===========================
404 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
406 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
407 =========================
412 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
413 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
416 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
417 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
418 the set of headers to be indexed.
420 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
423 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
424 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
425 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
428 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
429 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
430 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
432 Command Line Interface
433 ----------------------
435 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
438 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
440 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
441 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
442 more details about what is included there. This status includes
443 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
448 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
449 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
451 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
453 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
455 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
457 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
459 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
462 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
464 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
465 and may be removed in a future release.
467 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
473 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
475 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
476 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
481 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
482 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
483 cryptography support.
488 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
489 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
490 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
492 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
493 ===========================
495 Command line interface
496 ----------------------
498 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
499 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
501 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
502 ===========================
507 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
508 by message properties.
513 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
515 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
516 ===========================
521 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
526 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
527 now needed to build this documentation.
529 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
530 ===========================
535 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
536 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
538 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
539 =========================
546 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
547 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
548 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
549 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
550 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
553 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
555 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
556 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
557 correct encoding for such messages.
559 Command Line Interface
560 ----------------------
562 Support relative database paths
564 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
565 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
566 to $HOME of the invoking user.
571 Improve stderr handling
573 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
574 needed on e.g. macOS.
576 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
578 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
583 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
584 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
590 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
591 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
597 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
598 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
601 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
602 =========================
607 Add support for thread:{} queries
609 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
610 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
611 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
613 Command Line Interface
614 ----------------------
616 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
618 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
620 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
622 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
623 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
624 does not have to be available during message receipt.
629 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
635 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
636 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
638 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
639 ===========================
644 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
646 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
647 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
648 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
650 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
652 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
653 related abort in `notmuch show`.
655 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
656 ===========================
661 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
662 better late than never.
665 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
666 =========================
668 Command Line Interface
669 ----------------------
671 Support for re-indexing existing messages
673 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
674 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
675 change the way specific messages are indexed.
677 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
678 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
679 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
681 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
683 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
685 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
687 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
688 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
689 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
690 the setting of `new.tags`.
692 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
694 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
696 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
698 This inserts into the top level folder.
700 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
702 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
704 New option --output=address for notmuch address
706 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
708 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
710 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
711 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
712 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
714 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
719 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
721 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
722 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
723 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
724 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
725 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
726 config set index.decrypt true".
728 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
729 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
730 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
731 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
732 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
733 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
734 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
735 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
737 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
738 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
739 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
740 this feature without considering the security of your index.
745 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
747 Use make-process when available
749 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
750 notmuch command without using temporary files.
755 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
757 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
758 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
759 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
760 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
762 New functions to count files
764 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
765 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
767 New function to remove properties
769 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
770 drop all properties with a common pattern:
771 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
773 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
775 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
776 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
777 possibility of NULL was not documented.
779 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
781 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
782 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
783 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
784 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
785 operator may decide to change from message to message.
792 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
793 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
794 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
800 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
802 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
803 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
805 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
807 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
809 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
811 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
816 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
817 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
819 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
820 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
821 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
822 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
823 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
824 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
829 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
831 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
832 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
833 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
834 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
836 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
837 ===========================
842 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
843 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
846 Command Line Interface
847 ----------------------
849 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
850 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
853 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
854 ===========================
856 Command Line Interface
857 ----------------------
859 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
860 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
865 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
868 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
869 ===========================
874 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
877 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
878 =========================
883 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
885 Skip HTML tags when indexing
887 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
889 Command Line Interface
890 ----------------------
892 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
894 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
899 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
901 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
902 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
905 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
910 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
912 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
913 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
915 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
917 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
918 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
921 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
923 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
925 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
927 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
928 ===========================
930 Command Line Interface
931 ----------------------
933 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
938 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
940 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
941 ===========================
946 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
948 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
949 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
952 Command Line Interface
953 ----------------------
955 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
957 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
959 Fix bug in dump header
961 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
962 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
963 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
968 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
970 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
971 =========================
976 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
978 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
981 Command Line Interface
982 ----------------------
984 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
986 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
987 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
988 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
990 New default output format to 3
992 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
993 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
994 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
995 default format changes.
1000 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1002 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1003 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1004 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1005 or tree view to resume.
1007 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1008 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1009 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1012 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1013 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1017 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1018 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1019 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1020 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1021 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1025 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1026 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1027 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1028 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1029 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1030 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1034 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1035 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1037 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1039 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1040 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1041 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1042 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1043 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1044 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1045 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1046 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1049 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1051 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1052 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1053 only tagged the current thread.)
1055 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1057 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1058 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1059 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1061 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1063 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1064 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1065 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1066 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1067 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1068 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1069 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1071 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1073 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1074 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1075 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1080 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1082 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1085 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1087 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1090 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1091 ===========================
1096 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1098 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1099 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1100 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1103 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1104 ===========================
1106 Command Line Interface
1107 ----------------------
1109 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1114 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1116 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1117 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1118 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1120 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1121 ===========================
1126 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1127 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1129 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1130 ===========================
1132 Command Line Interface
1133 ----------------------
1135 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1137 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1138 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1139 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1144 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1146 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1147 ===========================
1149 Command Line Interface
1150 ----------------------
1152 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1157 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1159 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1160 ===========================
1165 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1167 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1168 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1169 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1171 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1173 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1175 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1176 ===========================
1181 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1183 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1188 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1190 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1191 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1192 the original colours.
1194 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1195 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1197 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1199 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1200 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1201 bug, and hence the test.
1203 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1204 =========================
1206 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1207 ---------------------
1209 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1211 Support for single argument date: queries
1213 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1215 Support for blocking opens
1217 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1218 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1220 Support for named queries
1222 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1223 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1224 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1229 Message property API
1231 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1232 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1233 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1234 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1236 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1238 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1243 Support for compile time options
1245 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1246 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1249 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1251 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1252 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1253 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1254 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1255 scripts to ignore it.
1260 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1262 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1263 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1264 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1266 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1267 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1268 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1269 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1270 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1271 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1272 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1274 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1275 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1278 Make internal address completion customizable
1280 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1281 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1282 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1283 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1286 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1288 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1289 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1290 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1291 completion for the current buffer.
1293 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1294 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1295 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1299 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1300 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1301 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1302 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1303 will be added instead.
1305 Face customization is easier
1307 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1308 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1309 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1310 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1312 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1317 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1322 Go bindings moved to contrib
1324 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1326 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1328 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1329 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1331 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1333 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1334 ===========================
1341 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1342 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1344 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1346 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1348 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1349 ===========================
1354 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1356 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1361 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1366 Use `env` to locate perl.
1371 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1373 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1375 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1377 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1379 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1380 =========================
1387 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1388 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1390 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1392 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1393 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1394 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1399 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1400 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1401 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1403 Command Line Interface
1404 ----------------------
1406 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1408 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1413 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1418 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1420 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1421 parts are now included in replies.
1423 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1424 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1425 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1426 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1428 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1430 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1432 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1434 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1435 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1436 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1437 forwards only the current message.
1439 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1441 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1442 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1443 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1444 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1445 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1446 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1447 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1448 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1451 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1452 longer generate empty buffers
1454 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1455 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1456 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1457 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1458 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1460 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1462 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1465 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1467 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1470 Address completion improvements
1472 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1473 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1474 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1475 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1476 interactive address completion.
1478 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1480 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1481 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1482 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1487 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1488 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1489 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1495 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1496 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1497 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1498 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1499 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1500 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1502 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1503 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1504 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1505 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1506 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1507 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1509 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1510 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1512 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1513 =========================
1518 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1521 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1523 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1524 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1525 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1527 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1528 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1530 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1531 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1532 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1534 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1536 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1537 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1538 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1539 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1540 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1541 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1546 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1547 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1550 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1551 option to configure.
1553 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1555 Command Line Interface
1556 ----------------------
1558 Database revision tracking
1560 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1561 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1562 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1563 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1565 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1567 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1568 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1569 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1570 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1571 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1572 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1573 manual page for further information.
1578 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1580 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1581 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1583 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1585 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1586 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1587 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1589 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1591 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1593 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1594 customization as well.
1596 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1598 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1600 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1602 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1604 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1605 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1606 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1607 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1609 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1611 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1612 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1613 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1614 this variable to 10000.
1619 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1620 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1622 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1624 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1625 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1626 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1627 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1628 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1629 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1630 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1631 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1632 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1635 Database revision tracking
1637 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1638 query parser and the new function
1639 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1641 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1643 Deprecated functions
1645 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1646 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1647 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1648 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1653 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1655 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1656 ===========================
1661 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1663 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1664 ===========================
1669 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1671 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1672 =========================
1674 Command-Line Interface
1675 ----------------------
1677 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1679 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1680 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1681 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1683 Path to gpg is now configurable
1685 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1686 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1691 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1693 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1698 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1703 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1708 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1710 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1711 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1713 New error logging facility
1715 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1716 output formerly printed to stderr.
1718 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1720 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1722 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1724 Fix for rounding of seconds
1729 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1731 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1732 documentation has been removed.
1734 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1736 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1737 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1742 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1743 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1744 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1749 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1750 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1751 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1752 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1753 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1754 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1757 git checkout config origin/config
1759 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1761 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1762 =========================
1767 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1768 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1769 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1770 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1771 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1772 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1773 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1775 Command-Line Interface
1776 ----------------------
1778 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1780 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1781 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1782 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1783 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1784 script callers should still check the return value.
1786 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1788 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1789 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1790 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1791 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1792 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1793 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1794 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1796 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1798 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1799 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1800 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1802 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1804 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1805 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1806 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1807 currently unmaintained.
1809 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1811 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1812 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1813 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1814 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1816 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1818 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1819 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1820 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1821 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1822 count of duplicate addresses.
1827 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1829 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1830 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1831 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1834 Improved handling of the unread tag
1836 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1837 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1838 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1839 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1840 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1841 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1842 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1844 Expanded default saved search settings
1846 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1847 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1849 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1851 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1852 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1853 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1855 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1857 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1858 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1859 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1860 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1861 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1862 the variable for details.
1867 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1869 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1870 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1871 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1872 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1874 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1876 Previously, library users were required to call
1877 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1878 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1879 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1880 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1881 too out of date for that API.
1883 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1885 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1886 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1887 atomic section will be aborted.
1889 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1890 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1892 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1894 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1895 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1896 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1897 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1898 messages into the same thread.
1903 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1904 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1905 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1906 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1907 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1908 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1913 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1914 from the config file. Use something like:
1918 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1919 "footer": "</body></html>",
1928 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1933 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1934 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1935 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1937 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1938 ===========================
1943 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1945 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1947 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1949 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1950 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1952 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1954 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1957 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1958 ===========================
1960 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1965 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1967 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1969 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1971 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1973 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1979 Use --quick when starting emacs
1981 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1983 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1985 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1987 Command-Line Interface
1988 ----------------------
1990 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1991 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1996 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1998 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1999 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2001 Fix for phrase indexing
2003 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2004 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2005 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2010 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2012 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2013 unintentionally removed.
2015 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2016 =========================
2021 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2022 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2023 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2024 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2025 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2026 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2027 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2028 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2029 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2035 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2037 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2038 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2039 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2040 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2041 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2042 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2043 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2044 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2046 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2048 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2049 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2050 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2051 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2054 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2056 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2057 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2058 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2059 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2060 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2061 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2062 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2067 Notmuch database upgrade
2069 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2070 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2071 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2072 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2073 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2074 released version of Notmuch before now.
2076 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2078 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2079 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2080 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2081 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2083 Message header parsing changes
2085 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2086 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2087 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2088 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2089 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2090 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2092 Command-Line Interface
2093 ----------------------
2095 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2097 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2099 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2101 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2103 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2105 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2106 user does not want it.
2108 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2110 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2111 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2112 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2113 support formatted output.
2115 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2117 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2118 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2119 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2127 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2128 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2129 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2130 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2131 `~/.emacs` with these.
2133 Changed format for saved searches
2135 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2136 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2137 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2138 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2141 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2142 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2143 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2144 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2146 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2147 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2148 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2150 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2151 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2152 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2153 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2154 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2156 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2158 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2159 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2160 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2162 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2164 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2165 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2166 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2167 message had been unread).
2169 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2170 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2171 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2172 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2174 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2175 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2176 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2178 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2179 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2180 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2181 to tags already present.
2185 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2186 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2187 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2188 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2189 these differ from each other.
2190 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2192 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2194 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2195 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2196 for these Emacs versions.
2198 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2200 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2201 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2203 Bug fixes for sender identities
2205 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2206 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2207 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2209 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2211 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2212 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2213 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2214 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2216 Reply pushes mark before signature
2218 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2219 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2220 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2222 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2224 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2225 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2231 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2232 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2234 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2235 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2236 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2237 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2239 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2240 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2241 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2242 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2243 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2245 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2247 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2248 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2250 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2251 =========================
2253 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2254 ---------------------------------------
2256 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2257 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2258 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2259 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2260 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2261 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2262 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2266 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2267 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2269 Command-Line Interface
2270 ----------------------
2272 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2274 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2275 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2276 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2277 print for each message.
2279 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2280 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2281 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2282 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2284 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2286 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2287 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2288 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2290 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2292 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2293 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2294 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2295 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2297 `notmuch compact` command
2299 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2300 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2301 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2302 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2303 move the compacted database into place.
2308 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2310 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2311 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2312 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2313 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2314 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2315 and multiple threads.
2317 Using `notmuch-tree`
2319 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2321 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2322 search, show and tree mode itself)
2324 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2327 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2328 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2330 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2332 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2333 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2334 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2335 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2336 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2337 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2338 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2340 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2342 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2343 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2344 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2345 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2346 thread when the search was performed.
2348 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2350 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2351 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2352 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2354 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2356 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2357 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2360 Built-in help improvements
2362 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2363 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2364 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2366 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2368 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2369 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2370 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2372 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2374 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2375 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2377 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2379 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2380 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2381 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2382 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2384 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2386 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2387 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2388 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2389 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2391 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2393 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2394 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2395 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2397 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2399 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2400 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2401 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2403 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2405 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2406 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2407 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2408 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2409 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2411 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2413 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2414 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2415 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2416 the body part of the message.
2421 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2422 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2423 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2425 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2426 =========================
2428 Command-Line Interface
2429 ----------------------
2431 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2433 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2434 folder and notmuch index.
2436 `notmuch count --batch` option
2438 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2439 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2441 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2443 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2444 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2445 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2448 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2450 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2451 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2452 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2453 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2454 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2457 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2459 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2460 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2462 Top level option to specify configuration file
2464 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2465 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2467 Bash command-line completion
2469 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2470 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2471 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2472 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2473 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2474 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2475 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2476 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2477 bash-completion package.
2479 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2484 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2486 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2487 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2488 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2489 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2490 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2491 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2492 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2493 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2495 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2497 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2498 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2499 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2501 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2503 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2504 previous thread in the search results.
2506 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2508 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2509 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2511 Faster search and show
2513 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2514 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2515 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2516 threads should show faster.
2520 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2521 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2522 in question was now removed from this release.
2527 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2528 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2533 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2535 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2536 ===========================
2541 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2543 Internal test framework changes
2544 -------------------------------
2546 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2547 being unimplemented.
2549 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2550 ===========================
2552 Internal test framework changes
2553 -------------------------------
2555 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2556 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2558 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2559 =========================
2564 Date range search support
2566 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2567 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2568 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2569 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2570 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2573 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2575 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2576 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2577 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2578 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2579 but may be removed in a future release.
2581 Command-Line Interface
2582 ----------------------
2584 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2586 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2587 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2589 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2591 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2592 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2593 officially deprecated.
2595 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2597 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2598 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2599 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2601 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2603 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2604 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2607 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2608 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2609 dump/restore format.
2611 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2613 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2614 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2615 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2617 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2619 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2620 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2621 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2623 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2625 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2626 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2627 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2628 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2633 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2635 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2636 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2637 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2638 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2640 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2642 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2643 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2644 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2645 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2646 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2647 the behavior of this, see
2648 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2649 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2651 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2652 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2653 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2655 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2657 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2658 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2661 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2663 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2664 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2665 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2666 simply displayed in place of the message.
2668 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2670 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2671 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2673 Improved text/calendar content handling
2675 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2676 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2677 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2678 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2680 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2682 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2683 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2684 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2685 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2687 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2689 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2690 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2691 for HTML email containing images.
2693 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2695 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2697 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2699 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2702 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2704 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2705 the point where it was.
2707 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2709 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2710 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2711 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2712 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2713 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2715 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2717 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2718 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2719 thread instead of the message id.
2721 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2722 -----------------------------
2724 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2725 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2726 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2727 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2728 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2729 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2730 further details and installation.
2735 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2737 Internal test framework changes
2738 -------------------------------
2740 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2742 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2743 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2744 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2745 can result in buggy behavior.
2747 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2748 =========================
2753 Maildir tag synchronization
2755 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2756 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2757 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2758 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2759 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2760 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2763 Command-Line Interface
2764 ----------------------
2766 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2767 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2768 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2769 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2770 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2776 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2778 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2780 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2781 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2782 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2784 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2786 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2787 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2788 span multiple lines.
2790 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2792 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2793 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2794 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2795 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2796 inside the result or message.
2798 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2800 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2801 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2803 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2804 user-specified formatting
2806 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2807 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2808 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2809 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2810 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2812 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2813 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2815 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2816 ===========================
2821 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2822 compilation error for this contrib package.
2824 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2825 ===========================
2830 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2832 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2833 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2834 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2835 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2837 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2838 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2841 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2842 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2843 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2844 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2847 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2849 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2852 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2853 =========================
2855 Command-Line Interface
2856 ----------------------
2860 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2861 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2862 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2863 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2865 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2866 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2867 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2868 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2872 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2873 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2875 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2876 tag in your query, for example:
2878 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2880 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2881 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2883 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2884 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2886 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2888 Raw show format changes
2890 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2891 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2892 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2893 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2894 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2895 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2896 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2897 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2899 Listing configuration items
2901 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2907 Changes to tagging interface
2909 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2910 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2911 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2912 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2913 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2914 for more information.
2916 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2917 may need to update in custom configurations.
2919 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2921 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2922 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2923 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2924 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2927 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2928 -----------------------------
2930 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2931 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2932 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2933 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2934 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2935 contrib/ from now on.
2940 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2941 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2943 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2944 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2946 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2947 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2948 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2950 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2951 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2953 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2954 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2955 returning the new database object or directory object.
2962 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2963 compatible with go 1.
2965 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2966 =========================
2968 Command-Line Interface
2969 ----------------------
2973 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2974 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2975 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2976 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2978 Mail store folder/file ignore
2980 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2981 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2982 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2984 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2985 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2987 Unified help and manual pages
2989 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2990 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2993 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2995 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2996 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3004 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3005 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3006 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3007 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3009 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3011 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3012 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3014 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3017 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3018 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3019 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3021 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3023 should be changed to:
3025 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3027 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3029 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3030 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3032 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3034 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3035 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3036 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3037 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3038 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3039 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3043 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3044 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3045 of Mailing List Archives.
3047 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3049 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3050 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3053 Show view archiving key binding changes
3055 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3056 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3057 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3058 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3059 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3062 Support text/calendar MIME type
3064 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3067 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3069 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3070 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3071 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3072 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3074 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3076 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3077 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3078 messages blue by default in the search view.
3082 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3083 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3090 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3093 Python bindings changes
3094 -----------------------
3096 Python 3.2 compatibility
3098 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3100 Added missing unicode conversions
3102 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3103 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3104 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3109 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3111 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3112 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3113 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3114 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3115 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3117 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3118 ===========================
3123 Fix error handling in python bindings
3125 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3126 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3127 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3128 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3130 Quote MML tags in replies
3132 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3133 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3134 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3135 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3136 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3137 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3138 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3139 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3141 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3142 =========================
3144 Command-Line Interface
3145 ----------------------
3149 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3150 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3151 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3152 importing new messages into the database.
3154 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3156 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3157 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3158 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3163 Automatic tag query optimization
3165 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3166 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3167 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3169 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3171 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3172 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3173 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3178 Reduction of memory leaks
3180 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3181 and fixed in this release.
3188 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3189 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3190 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3193 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3195 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3196 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3197 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3200 Improvements in saved search management
3202 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3203 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3204 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3206 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3208 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3209 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3210 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3212 New face for crypto parts headers
3214 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3215 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3216 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3219 Use space as default thousands separator
3221 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3222 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3223 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3225 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3226 buttonized id: links
3228 New function notmuch-show-advance
3230 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3231 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3232 be bound to SPC with:
3234 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3236 Various performance improvements
3241 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3242 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3245 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3246 ===========================
3251 Fix crash in python bindings
3253 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3254 for some, but not all users.
3256 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3257 ===========================
3262 Fix `--help` argument
3264 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3265 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3266 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3268 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3269 =========================
3271 New build and testing features
3272 ------------------------------
3274 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3275 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3276 prerequisites is improved.
3278 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3280 New command-line features
3281 -------------------------
3283 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3285 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3286 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3289 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3291 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3292 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3293 favour of using stdout.
3295 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3297 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3298 limit the number of results shown.
3300 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3302 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3303 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3306 New emacs UI features
3307 ---------------------
3309 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3311 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3312 starting with "tag:".
3314 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3316 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3317 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3319 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3321 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3323 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3325 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3326 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3331 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3333 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3335 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3336 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3337 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3338 requires a database rebuild:
3340 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3341 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3343 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3345 New collection of add-on tools
3346 ------------------------------
3348 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3349 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3350 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3353 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3355 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3356 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3357 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3359 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3360 ========================
3362 New, general features
3363 ---------------------
3365 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3367 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3368 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3369 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3370 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3371 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3378 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3379 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3381 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3385 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3386 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3387 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3390 Python bindings changes
3391 -----------------------
3393 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3395 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3396 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3397 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3398 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3399 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3400 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3402 Ruby bindings changes
3403 ---------------------
3405 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3406 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3407 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3408 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3413 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3415 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3416 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3418 Reply formatting cleanup
3419 ------------------------
3421 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3422 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3424 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3425 ========================
3427 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3429 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3430 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3431 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3432 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3435 Improved Build system portability
3437 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3438 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3439 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3441 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3443 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3445 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3447 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3448 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3449 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3451 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3452 ========================
3454 Vim interface improvements
3455 --------------------------
3457 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3459 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3460 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3461 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3462 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3463 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3465 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3467 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3468 * fix compose temp file name
3470 Python Bindings changes
3471 -----------------------
3473 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3475 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3476 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3478 Build-System improvements
3479 -------------------------
3481 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3483 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3486 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3487 ==========================
3492 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3494 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3495 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3497 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3498 =======================
3500 New, general features
3501 ---------------------
3503 Folder-based searching
3505 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3506 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3507 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3511 For example, one might use things such as:
3517 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3518 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3520 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3521 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3522 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3523 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3525 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3526 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3527 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3530 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3531 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3533 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3535 Support for PGP/MIME
3537 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3538 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3539 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3541 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3543 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3544 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3546 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3547 notmuch will receive these tags.
3549 New command-line features
3550 -------------------------
3552 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3554 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3555 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3557 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3559 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3560 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3561 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3563 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3565 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3566 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3567 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3568 which parts a signature part applies).
3570 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3572 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3573 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3574 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3575 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3576 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3579 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3581 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3582 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3583 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3584 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3585 by translating it internally to the new call.
3587 Performance improvements
3588 ------------------------
3590 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3592 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3593 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3594 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3596 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3597 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3599 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3601 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3602 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3603 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3605 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3606 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3607 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3608 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3610 Faster initial indexing
3612 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3613 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3614 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3616 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3618 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3619 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3620 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3621 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3623 New emacs-interface features
3624 ----------------------------
3626 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3628 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3629 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3630 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3631 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3632 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3633 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3635 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3637 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3638 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3639 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3640 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3642 User-selectable From address
3644 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3645 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3646 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3647 will prompt for the from address to use.
3649 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3650 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3651 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3653 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3654 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3655 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3658 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3660 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3661 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3663 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3665 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3667 ----- Original Message -----
3669 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3670 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3671 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3672 citations work much like conventional citations.
3674 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3676 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3677 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3678 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3679 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3680 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3682 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3683 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3685 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3687 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3688 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3689 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3691 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3693 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3694 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3695 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3696 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3697 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3699 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3701 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3704 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3706 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3708 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3710 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3713 Vim interface improvements
3714 --------------------------
3716 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3718 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3719 * Implementing archive in show view
3720 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3721 * Add delete commands
3724 Bindings improvements
3725 ---------------------
3727 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3729 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3730 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3732 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3734 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3738 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3739 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3740 `list(Messages)` works now
3741 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3743 These allow, for example:
3745 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3747 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3749 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3755 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3757 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3760 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3762 New build-system features
3763 -------------------------
3765 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3767 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3768 the configure script from some other directory:
3775 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3777 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3778 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3779 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3780 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3781 manual invocation of configure.
3783 New test-suite feature
3784 ----------------------
3786 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3788 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3789 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3790 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3791 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3792 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3795 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3797 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3798 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3799 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3800 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3801 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3802 are updated to take advantage of this.
3804 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3806 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3807 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3808 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3809 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3815 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3817 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3818 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3819 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3821 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3823 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3825 to:user@elsewhere.com
3827 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3829 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3831 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3833 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3834 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3835 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3838 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3839 from the Received headers in some cases
3841 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3842 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3844 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3846 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3848 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3850 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3851 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3852 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3854 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3855 -------------------------
3857 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3859 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3860 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3861 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3863 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3865 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3866 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3867 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3870 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3872 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3873 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3874 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3875 fixed to avoid this bug.
3877 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3879 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3880 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3882 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3883 ========================
3885 New, general features
3886 ---------------------
3888 Maildir-flag synchronization
3890 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3891 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3900 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3902 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3903 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3904 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3905 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3907 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3908 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3909 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3910 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3913 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3915 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3916 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3917 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3919 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3920 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3922 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3923 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3925 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3926 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3927 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3929 New library features
3930 --------------------
3932 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3934 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3935 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3936 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3937 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3939 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3940 message with the new function:
3942 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3944 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3945 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3946 over all available filenames for a given message.
3948 New command-line features
3949 -------------------------
3951 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3953 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3954 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3955 access to the mail store itself.
3957 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3958 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3959 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3960 name of a script containing:
3962 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3964 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3965 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3971 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3973 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3975 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3977 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3978 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3979 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3980 now produces nothing).
3982 Emacs interface improvements
3983 ----------------------------
3985 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3987 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3989 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3991 Display current thread subject in a header line
3993 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3995 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3997 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3998 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3999 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4000 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4001 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4002 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4003 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4005 Vim interface improvements
4006 --------------------------
4008 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4010 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4011 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4017 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4019 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4020 ========================
4022 New command-line features
4023 -------------------------
4025 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4027 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4028 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4029 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4031 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4032 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4033 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4034 scripts. For example:
4036 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4037 <operations-on> "$file"
4040 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4042 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4043 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4044 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4045 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4046 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4047 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4049 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4051 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4052 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4053 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4054 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4056 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4058 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4059 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4060 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4061 default rather than Bcc.
4063 New library features
4064 --------------------
4066 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4068 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4069 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4074 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4076 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4077 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4078 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4079 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4080 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4081 notmuch customize interface.
4083 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4085 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4086 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4087 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4088 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4090 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4092 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4093 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4094 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4095 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4097 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4099 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4100 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4101 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4102 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4103 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4104 notmuch customize interface.
4106 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4108 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4109 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4110 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4111 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4112 notmuch customize interface.
4114 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4116 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4117 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4118 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4119 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4122 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4124 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4125 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4126 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4129 New build-system features
4130 -------------------------
4132 Various portability fixes have been applied
4134 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4135 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4136 more portable than ever before.
4138 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4140 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4141 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4142 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4144 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4145 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4146 automatically run ldconfig.
4148 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4149 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4150 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4152 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4153 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4154 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4155 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4157 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4159 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4160 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4161 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4162 used in the resulting Makefile.
4164 New test-suite features
4165 -----------------------
4167 New modularization of test suite
4169 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4170 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4171 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4172 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4173 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4174 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4175 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4176 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4178 New testing of emacs interface
4180 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4181 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4182 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4183 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4184 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4185 database via the FCC setting.
4190 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4192 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4193 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4194 persistent error of the form:
4196 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4198 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4199 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4201 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4203 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4204 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4205 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4207 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4209 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4210 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4211 parsing the notmuch results).
4213 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4215 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4218 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4219 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4220 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4225 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4227 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4228 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4229 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4230 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4231 the emacs interface.
4233 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4235 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4236 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4237 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4239 Python-binding fixes
4240 --------------------
4242 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4244 Debian-specific fixes
4245 ---------------------
4247 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4249 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4250 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4251 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4254 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4255 ==========================
4260 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4262 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4263 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4264 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4265 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4267 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4269 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4270 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4271 want notmuch to crash.
4276 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4278 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4279 directory does not exist
4284 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4286 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4287 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4289 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4290 ========================
4292 New command-line features
4293 -------------------------
4295 User-configurable tags for new messages
4297 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4298 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4299 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4300 to specify this value.
4302 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4304 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4305 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4306 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4308 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4310 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4311 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4313 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4315 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4316 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4317 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4318 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4319 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4322 Indication of author names that match a search
4324 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4325 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4326 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4327 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4328 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4329 messages in the thread are listed first.
4331 New: Python bindings
4332 --------------------
4334 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4335 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4336 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4337 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4339 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4340 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4341 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4344 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4345 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4346 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4348 Emacs interface improvements
4349 ----------------------------
4351 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4353 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4354 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4355 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4356 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4357 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4358 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4359 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4360 but without any of the disadvantages).
4362 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4363 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4364 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4367 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4368 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4369 instead running something like:
4371 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4373 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4374 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4375 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4378 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4380 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4381 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4382 tweaked by the user.
4384 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4385 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4386 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4389 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4390 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4391 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4394 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4396 This support currently relies on an external program,
4397 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4398 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4399 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4400 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4401 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4404 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4405 notmuch) is available via:
4407 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4409 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4410 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4411 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4413 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4415 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4416 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4417 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4418 making this automatic in a future release.
4420 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4422 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4423 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4424 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4425 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4426 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4427 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4430 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4432 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4433 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4434 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4436 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4438 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4439 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4440 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4442 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4443 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4444 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4445 other representation.
4447 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4448 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4451 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4453 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4454 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4455 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4457 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4458 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4459 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4461 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4463 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4464 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4465 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4466 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4467 to display the search result.
4469 More flexible handling of header visibility
4471 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4472 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4473 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4474 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4475 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4476 with the 'h' keybinding.
4478 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4479 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4480 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4482 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4484 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4486 Customizable formatting of search results
4488 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4489 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4490 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4492 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4494 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4496 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4501 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4503 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4504 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4505 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4506 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4512 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4514 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4515 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4517 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4519 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4520 accept are now all accepted.
4525 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4527 Better display of output from failed tests
4529 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4530 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4532 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4533 ========================
4535 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4536 detailed release notes this time!
4538 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4539 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4541 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4542 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4543 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4544 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4551 Better guessing of From: header
4553 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4554 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4555 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4556 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4557 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4560 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4562 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4563 guaranteed to match all messages.
4565 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4567 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4568 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4569 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4570 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4571 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4574 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4577 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4578 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4579 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4580 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4585 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4587 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4588 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4589 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4590 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4592 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4594 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4596 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4597 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4598 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4600 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4602 Previously, the user might see:
4604 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4608 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4610 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4611 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4612 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4613 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4615 Emacs client features
4616 ---------------------
4618 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4620 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4621 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4622 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4623 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4624 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4626 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4629 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4630 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4631 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4632 search with the '*' binding.
4634 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4636 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4637 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4640 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4642 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4643 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4644 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4646 Build-system features
4647 ---------------------
4649 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4651 Add support to configure for many standard options
4653 We include actual support for:
4655 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4657 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4659 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4660 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4662 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4663 separate "make install-emacs"
4665 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4667 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4668 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4669 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4671 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4674 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4675 ========================
4677 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4679 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4680 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4682 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4683 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4684 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4685 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4686 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4687 tags from messages in a thread.
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