1 Notmuch 0.27 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add support for thread:{} queries
9 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
10 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
11 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
18 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
23 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
24 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
26 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
27 ===========================
32 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`.
34 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
35 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
36 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
38 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
40 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
41 related abort in `notmuch show`.
43 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
44 ===========================
49 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
50 better late than never.
53 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
54 =========================
56 Command Line Interface
57 ----------------------
59 Support for re-indexing existing messages
61 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
62 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
63 change the way specific messages are indexed.
65 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
66 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
67 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
69 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
71 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
73 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
75 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
76 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
77 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
78 the setting of `new.tags`.
80 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
82 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
84 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
86 This inserts into the top level folder.
88 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
90 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
92 New option --output=address for notmuch address
94 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
96 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
98 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
99 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
100 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
102 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
107 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
109 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
110 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
111 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
112 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
113 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
114 config set index.decrypt true".
116 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
117 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
118 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
119 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
120 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
121 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
122 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
123 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
125 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
126 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
127 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
128 this feature without considering the security of your index.
133 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
135 Use make-process when available
137 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
138 notmuch command without using temporary files.
143 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
145 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
146 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
147 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
148 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
150 New functions to count files
152 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
153 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
155 New function to remove properties
157 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
158 drop all properties with a common pattern:
159 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
161 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
163 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
164 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
165 possibility of NULL was not documented.
167 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
169 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
170 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
171 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
172 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
173 operator may decide to change from message to message.
180 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
181 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
182 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
188 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
190 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
191 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
193 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
195 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
197 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
199 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
204 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
205 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
207 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
208 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
209 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
210 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
211 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
212 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
217 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
219 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
220 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
221 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
222 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
224 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
225 ===========================
230 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
231 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
234 Command Line Interface
235 ----------------------
237 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
238 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
241 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
242 ===========================
244 Command Line Interface
245 ----------------------
247 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
248 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
253 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
256 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
257 ===========================
262 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
265 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
266 =========================
271 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
273 Skip HTML tags when indexing
275 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
277 Command Line Interface
278 ----------------------
280 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
282 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
287 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
289 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
290 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
293 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
298 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
300 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
301 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
303 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
305 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
306 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
309 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
311 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
313 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
315 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
316 ===========================
318 Command Line Interface
319 ----------------------
321 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
326 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
328 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
329 ===========================
334 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
336 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
337 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
340 Command Line Interface
341 ----------------------
343 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
345 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
347 Fix bug in dump header
349 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
350 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
351 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
356 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
358 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
359 =========================
364 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
366 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
369 Command Line Interface
370 ----------------------
372 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
374 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
375 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
376 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
378 New default output format to 3
380 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
381 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
382 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
383 default format changes.
388 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
390 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
391 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
392 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
393 or tree view to resume.
395 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
396 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
397 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
400 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
401 they were when you postponed in the final message.
405 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
406 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
407 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
408 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
409 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
413 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
414 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
415 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
416 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
417 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
418 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
422 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
423 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
425 Stop display of `application/*` parts
427 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
428 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
429 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
430 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
431 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
432 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
433 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
434 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
437 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
439 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
440 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
441 only tagged the current thread.)
443 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
445 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
446 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
447 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
449 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
451 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
452 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
453 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
454 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
455 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
456 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
457 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
459 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
461 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
462 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
463 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
468 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
470 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
473 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
475 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
478 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
479 ===========================
484 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
486 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
487 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
488 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
491 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
492 ===========================
494 Command Line Interface
495 ----------------------
497 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
502 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
504 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
505 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
506 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
508 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
509 ===========================
514 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
515 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
517 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
518 ===========================
520 Command Line Interface
521 ----------------------
523 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
525 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
526 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
527 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
532 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
534 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
535 ===========================
537 Command Line Interface
538 ----------------------
540 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
545 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
547 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
548 ===========================
553 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
555 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
556 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
557 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
559 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
561 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
563 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
564 ===========================
569 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
571 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
576 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
578 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
579 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
580 the original colours.
582 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
583 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
585 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
587 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
588 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
589 bug, and hence the test.
591 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
592 =========================
594 General (Xapian 1.4+)
595 ---------------------
597 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
599 Support for single argument date: queries
601 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
603 Support for blocking opens
605 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
606 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
608 Support for named queries
610 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
611 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
612 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
619 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
620 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
621 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
622 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
624 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
626 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
631 Support for compile time options
633 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
634 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
637 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
639 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
640 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
641 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
642 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
643 scripts to ignore it.
648 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
650 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
651 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
652 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
654 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
655 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
656 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
657 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
658 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
659 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
660 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
662 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
663 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
666 Make internal address completion customizable
668 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
669 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
670 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
671 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
674 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
676 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
677 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
678 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
679 completion for the current buffer.
681 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
682 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
683 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
687 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
688 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
689 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
690 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
691 will be added instead.
693 Face customization is easier
695 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
696 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
697 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
698 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
700 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
705 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
710 Go bindings moved to contrib
712 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
714 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
716 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
717 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
719 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
721 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
722 ===========================
729 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
730 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
732 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
734 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
736 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
737 ===========================
742 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
744 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
749 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
754 Use `env` to locate perl.
759 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
761 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
763 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
765 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
767 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
768 =========================
775 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
776 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
778 Limited support for S/MIME messages
780 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
781 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
782 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
787 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
788 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
789 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
791 Command Line Interface
792 ----------------------
794 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
796 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
801 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
806 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
808 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
809 parts are now included in replies.
811 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
812 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
813 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
814 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
816 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
818 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
820 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
822 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
823 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
824 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
825 forwards only the current message.
827 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
829 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
830 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
831 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
832 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
833 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
834 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
835 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
836 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
839 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
840 longer generate empty buffers
842 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
843 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
844 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
845 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
846 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
848 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
850 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
853 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
855 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
858 Address completion improvements
860 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
861 you previously configured one, customize the variable
862 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
863 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
864 interactive address completion.
866 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
868 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
869 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
870 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
875 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
876 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
877 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
883 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
884 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
885 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
886 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
887 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
888 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
890 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
891 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
892 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
893 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
894 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
895 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
897 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
898 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
900 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
901 =========================
906 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
909 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
911 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
912 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
913 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
915 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
916 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
918 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
919 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
920 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
922 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
924 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
925 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
926 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
927 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
928 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
929 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
934 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
935 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
938 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
941 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
943 Command Line Interface
944 ----------------------
946 Database revision tracking
948 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
949 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
950 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
951 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
953 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
955 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
956 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
957 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
958 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
959 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
960 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
961 manual page for further information.
966 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
968 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
969 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
971 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
973 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
974 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
975 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
977 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
979 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
981 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
982 customization as well.
984 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
986 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
988 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
990 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
992 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
993 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
994 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
995 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
997 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
999 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1000 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1001 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1002 this variable to 10000.
1007 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1008 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1010 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1012 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1013 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1014 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1015 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1016 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1017 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1018 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1019 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1020 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1023 Database revision tracking
1025 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1026 query parser and the new function
1027 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1029 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1031 Deprecated functions
1033 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1034 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1035 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1036 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1041 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1043 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1044 ===========================
1049 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1051 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1052 ===========================
1057 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1059 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1060 =========================
1062 Command-Line Interface
1063 ----------------------
1065 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1067 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1068 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1069 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1071 Path to gpg is now configurable
1073 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1074 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1079 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1081 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1086 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1091 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1096 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1098 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1099 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1101 New error logging facility
1103 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1104 output formerly printed to stderr.
1106 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1108 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1110 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1112 Fix for rounding of seconds
1117 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1119 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1120 documentation has been removed.
1122 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1124 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1125 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1130 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1131 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1132 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1137 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1138 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1139 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1140 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1141 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1142 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1145 git checkout config origin/config
1147 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1149 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1150 =========================
1155 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1156 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1157 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1158 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1159 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1160 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1161 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1163 Command-Line Interface
1164 ----------------------
1166 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1168 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1169 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1170 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1171 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1172 script callers should still check the return value.
1174 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1176 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1177 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1178 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1179 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1180 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1181 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1182 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1184 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1186 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1187 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1188 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1190 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1192 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1193 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1194 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1195 currently unmaintained.
1197 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1199 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1200 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1201 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1202 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1204 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1206 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1207 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1208 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1209 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1210 count of duplicate addresses.
1215 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1217 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1218 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1219 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1222 Improved handling of the unread tag
1224 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1225 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1226 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1227 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1228 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1229 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1230 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1232 Expanded default saved search settings
1234 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1235 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1237 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1239 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1240 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1241 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1243 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1245 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1246 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1247 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1248 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1249 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1250 the variable for details.
1255 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1257 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1258 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1259 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1260 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1262 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1264 Previously, library users were required to call
1265 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1266 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1267 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1268 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1269 too out of date for that API.
1271 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1273 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1274 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1275 atomic section will be aborted.
1277 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1278 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1280 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1282 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1283 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1284 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1285 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1286 messages into the same thread.
1291 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1292 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1293 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1294 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1295 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1296 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1301 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1302 from the config file. Use something like:
1306 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1307 "footer": "</body></html>",
1316 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1321 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1322 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1323 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1325 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1326 ===========================
1331 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1333 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1335 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1337 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1338 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1340 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1342 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1345 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1346 ===========================
1348 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1353 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1355 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1357 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1359 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1361 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1367 Use --quick when starting emacs
1369 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1371 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1373 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1375 Command-Line Interface
1376 ----------------------
1378 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1379 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1384 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1386 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1387 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1389 Fix for phrase indexing
1391 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1392 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1393 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1398 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1400 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1401 unintentionally removed.
1403 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1404 =========================
1409 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1410 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1411 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1412 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1413 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1414 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1415 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1416 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1417 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1423 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1425 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1426 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1427 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1428 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1429 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1430 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1431 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1432 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1434 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1436 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1437 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1438 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1439 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1442 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1444 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1445 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1446 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1447 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1448 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1449 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1450 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1455 Notmuch database upgrade
1457 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1458 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1459 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1460 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1461 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1462 released version of Notmuch before now.
1464 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1466 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1467 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1468 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1469 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1471 Message header parsing changes
1473 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1474 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1475 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1476 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1477 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1478 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1480 Command-Line Interface
1481 ----------------------
1483 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1485 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1487 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1489 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1491 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1493 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1494 user does not want it.
1496 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1498 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1499 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1500 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1501 support formatted output.
1503 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1505 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1506 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1507 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1515 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1516 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1517 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1518 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1519 `~/.emacs` with these.
1521 Changed format for saved searches
1523 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1524 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1525 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1526 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1529 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1530 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1531 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1532 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1534 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1535 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1536 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1538 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1539 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1540 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1541 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1542 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1544 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1546 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1547 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1548 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1550 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1552 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1553 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1554 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1555 message had been unread).
1557 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1558 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1559 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1560 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1562 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1563 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1564 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1566 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1567 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1568 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1569 to tags already present.
1573 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1574 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1575 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1576 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1577 these differ from each other.
1578 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1580 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1582 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1583 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1584 for these Emacs versions.
1586 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1588 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1589 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1591 Bug fixes for sender identities
1593 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1594 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1595 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1597 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1599 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1600 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1601 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1602 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1604 Reply pushes mark before signature
1606 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1607 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1608 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1610 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1612 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1613 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1619 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1620 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1622 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1623 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1624 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1625 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1627 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1628 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1629 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1630 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1631 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1633 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1635 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1636 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1638 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1639 =========================
1641 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1642 ---------------------------------------
1644 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1645 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1646 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1647 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1648 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1649 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1650 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1654 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1655 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1657 Command-Line Interface
1658 ----------------------
1660 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1662 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1663 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1664 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1665 print for each message.
1667 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1668 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1669 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1670 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1672 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1674 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1675 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1676 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1678 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1680 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1681 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1682 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1683 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1685 `notmuch compact` command
1687 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1688 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1689 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1690 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1691 move the compacted database into place.
1696 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1698 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1699 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1700 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1701 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1702 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1703 and multiple threads.
1705 Using `notmuch-tree`
1707 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1709 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1710 search, show and tree mode itself)
1712 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1715 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1716 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1718 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1720 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1721 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1722 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1723 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1724 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1725 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1726 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1728 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1730 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1731 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1732 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1733 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1734 thread when the search was performed.
1736 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1738 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1739 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1740 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1742 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1744 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1745 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1748 Built-in help improvements
1750 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1751 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1752 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1754 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1756 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1757 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1758 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1760 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1762 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1763 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1765 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1767 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1768 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1769 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1770 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1772 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1774 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1775 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1776 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1777 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1779 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1781 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1782 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1783 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1785 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1787 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1788 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1789 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1791 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1793 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1794 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1795 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1796 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1797 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1799 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1801 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1802 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1803 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1804 the body part of the message.
1809 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1810 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1811 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1813 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1814 =========================
1816 Command-Line Interface
1817 ----------------------
1819 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1821 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1822 folder and notmuch index.
1824 `notmuch count --batch` option
1826 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1827 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1829 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1831 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1832 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1833 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1836 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1838 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1839 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1840 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1841 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1842 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1845 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1847 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1848 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1850 Top level option to specify configuration file
1852 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1853 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1855 Bash command-line completion
1857 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1858 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1859 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1860 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1861 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1862 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1863 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1864 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1865 bash-completion package.
1867 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1872 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1874 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1875 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1876 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1877 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1878 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1879 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1880 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1881 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1883 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1885 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1886 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1887 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1889 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1891 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1892 previous thread in the search results.
1894 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1896 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1897 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1899 Faster search and show
1901 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1902 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1903 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1904 threads should show faster.
1908 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1909 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1910 in question was now removed from this release.
1915 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1916 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1921 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1923 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1924 ===========================
1929 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1931 Internal test framework changes
1932 -------------------------------
1934 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1935 being unimplemented.
1937 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1938 ===========================
1940 Internal test framework changes
1941 -------------------------------
1943 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1944 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1946 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1947 =========================
1952 Date range search support
1954 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1955 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1956 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1957 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1958 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1961 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1963 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1964 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1965 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1966 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1967 but may be removed in a future release.
1969 Command-Line Interface
1970 ----------------------
1972 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1974 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1975 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1977 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1979 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1980 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1981 officially deprecated.
1983 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1985 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1986 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1987 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1989 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1991 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1992 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1995 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1996 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1997 dump/restore format.
1999 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2001 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2002 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2003 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2005 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2007 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2008 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2009 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2011 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2013 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2014 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2015 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2016 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2021 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2023 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2024 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2025 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2026 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2028 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2030 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2031 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2032 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2033 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2034 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2035 the behavior of this, see
2036 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2037 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2039 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2040 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2041 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2043 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2045 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2046 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2049 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2051 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2052 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2053 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2054 simply displayed in place of the message.
2056 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2058 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2059 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2061 Improved text/calendar content handling
2063 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2064 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2065 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2066 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2068 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2070 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2071 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2072 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2073 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2075 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2077 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2078 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2079 for HTML email containing images.
2081 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2083 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2085 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2087 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2090 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2092 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2093 the point where it was.
2095 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2097 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2098 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2099 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2100 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2101 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2103 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2105 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2106 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2107 thread instead of the message id.
2109 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2110 -----------------------------
2112 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2113 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2114 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2115 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2116 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2117 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2118 further details and installation.
2123 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2125 Internal test framework changes
2126 -------------------------------
2128 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2130 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2131 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2132 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2133 can result in buggy behavior.
2135 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2136 =========================
2141 Maildir tag synchronization
2143 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2144 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2145 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2146 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2147 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2148 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2151 Command-Line Interface
2152 ----------------------
2154 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2155 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2156 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2157 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2158 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2164 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2166 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2168 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2169 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2170 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2172 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2174 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2175 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2176 span multiple lines.
2178 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2180 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2181 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2182 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2183 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2184 inside the result or message.
2186 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2188 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2189 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2191 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2192 user-specified formatting
2194 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2195 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2196 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2197 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2198 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2200 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2201 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2203 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2204 ===========================
2209 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2210 compilation error for this contrib package.
2212 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2213 ===========================
2218 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2220 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2221 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2222 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2223 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2225 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2226 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2229 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2230 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2231 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2232 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2235 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2237 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2240 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2241 =========================
2243 Command-Line Interface
2244 ----------------------
2248 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2249 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2250 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2251 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2253 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2254 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2255 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2256 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2260 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2261 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2263 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2264 tag in your query, for example:
2266 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2268 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2269 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2271 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2272 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2274 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2276 Raw show format changes
2278 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2279 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2280 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2281 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2282 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2283 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2284 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2285 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2287 Listing configuration items
2289 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2295 Changes to tagging interface
2297 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2298 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2299 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2300 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2301 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2302 for more information.
2304 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2305 may need to update in custom configurations.
2307 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2309 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2310 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2311 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2312 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2315 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2316 -----------------------------
2318 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2319 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2320 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2321 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2322 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2323 contrib/ from now on.
2328 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2329 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2331 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2332 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2334 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2335 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2336 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2338 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2339 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2341 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2342 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2343 returning the new database object or directory object.
2350 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2351 compatible with go 1.
2353 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2354 =========================
2356 Command-Line Interface
2357 ----------------------
2361 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2362 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2363 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2364 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2366 Mail store folder/file ignore
2368 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2369 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2370 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2372 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2373 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2375 Unified help and manual pages
2377 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2378 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2381 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2383 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2384 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2392 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2393 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2394 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2395 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2397 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2399 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2400 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2402 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2405 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2406 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2407 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2409 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2411 should be changed to:
2413 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2415 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2417 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2418 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2420 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2422 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2423 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2424 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2425 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2426 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2427 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2431 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2432 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2433 of Mailing List Archives.
2435 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2437 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2438 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2441 Show view archiving key binding changes
2443 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2444 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2445 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2446 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2447 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2450 Support text/calendar MIME type
2452 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2455 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2457 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2458 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2459 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2460 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2462 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2464 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2465 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2466 messages blue by default in the search view.
2470 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2471 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2478 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2481 Python bindings changes
2482 -----------------------
2484 Python 3.2 compatibility
2486 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2488 Added missing unicode conversions
2490 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2491 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2492 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2497 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2499 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2500 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2501 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2502 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2503 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2505 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2506 ===========================
2511 Fix error handling in python bindings
2513 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2514 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2515 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2516 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2518 Quote MML tags in replies
2520 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2521 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2522 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2523 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2524 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2525 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2526 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2527 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2529 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2530 =========================
2532 Command-Line Interface
2533 ----------------------
2537 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2538 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2539 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2540 importing new messages into the database.
2542 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2544 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2545 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2546 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2551 Automatic tag query optimization
2553 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2554 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2555 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2557 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2559 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2560 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2561 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2566 Reduction of memory leaks
2568 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2569 and fixed in this release.
2576 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2577 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2578 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2581 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2583 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2584 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2585 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2588 Improvements in saved search management
2590 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2591 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2592 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2594 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2596 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2597 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2598 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2600 New face for crypto parts headers
2602 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2603 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2604 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2607 Use space as default thousands separator
2609 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2610 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2611 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2613 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2614 buttonized id: links
2616 New function notmuch-show-advance
2618 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2619 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2620 be bound to SPC with:
2622 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2624 Various performance improvements
2629 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2630 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2633 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2634 ===========================
2639 Fix crash in python bindings
2641 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2642 for some, but not all users.
2644 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2645 ===========================
2650 Fix `--help` argument
2652 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2653 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2654 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2656 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2657 =========================
2659 New build and testing features
2660 ------------------------------
2662 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2663 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2664 prerequisites is improved.
2666 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2668 New command-line features
2669 -------------------------
2671 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2673 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2674 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2677 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2679 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2680 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2681 favour of using stdout.
2683 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2685 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2686 limit the number of results shown.
2688 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2690 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2691 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2694 New emacs UI features
2695 ---------------------
2697 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2699 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2700 starting with "tag:".
2702 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2704 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2705 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2707 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2709 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2711 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2713 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2714 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2719 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2721 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2723 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2724 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2725 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2726 requires a database rebuild:
2728 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2729 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2731 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2733 New collection of add-on tools
2734 ------------------------------
2736 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2737 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2738 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2741 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2743 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2744 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2745 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2747 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2748 ========================
2750 New, general features
2751 ---------------------
2753 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2755 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2756 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2757 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2758 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2759 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2766 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2767 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2769 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2773 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2774 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2775 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2778 Python bindings changes
2779 -----------------------
2781 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2783 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2784 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2785 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2786 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2787 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2788 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2790 Ruby bindings changes
2791 ---------------------
2793 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2794 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2795 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2796 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2801 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2803 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2804 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2806 Reply formatting cleanup
2807 ------------------------
2809 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2810 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2812 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2813 ========================
2815 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2817 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2818 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2819 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2820 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2823 Improved Build system portability
2825 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2826 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2827 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2829 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2831 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2833 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2835 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2836 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2837 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2839 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2840 ========================
2842 Vim interface improvements
2843 --------------------------
2845 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2847 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2848 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2849 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2850 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2851 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2853 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2855 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2856 * fix compose temp file name
2858 Python Bindings changes
2859 -----------------------
2861 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2863 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2864 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2866 Build-System improvements
2867 -------------------------
2869 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2871 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2874 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2875 ==========================
2880 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2882 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2883 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2885 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2886 =======================
2888 New, general features
2889 ---------------------
2891 Folder-based searching
2893 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2894 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2895 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2899 For example, one might use things such as:
2905 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2906 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2908 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2909 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2910 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2911 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2913 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2914 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2915 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2918 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2919 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2921 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2923 Support for PGP/MIME
2925 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2926 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2927 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2929 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2931 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2932 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2934 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2935 notmuch will receive these tags.
2937 New command-line features
2938 -------------------------
2940 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2942 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2943 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2945 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2947 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2948 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2949 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2951 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2953 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2954 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2955 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2956 which parts a signature part applies).
2958 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2960 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2961 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2962 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2963 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2964 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2967 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2969 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2970 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2971 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2972 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2973 by translating it internally to the new call.
2975 Performance improvements
2976 ------------------------
2978 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2980 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2981 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2982 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2984 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2985 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2987 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2989 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2990 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2991 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2993 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2994 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2995 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2996 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2998 Faster initial indexing
3000 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3001 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3002 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3004 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3006 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3007 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3008 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3009 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3011 New emacs-interface features
3012 ----------------------------
3014 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3016 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3017 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3018 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3019 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3020 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3021 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3023 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3025 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3026 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3027 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3028 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3030 User-selectable From address
3032 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3033 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3034 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3035 will prompt for the from address to use.
3037 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3038 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3039 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3041 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3042 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3043 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3046 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3048 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3049 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3051 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3053 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3055 ----- Original Message -----
3057 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3058 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3059 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3060 citations work much like conventional citations.
3062 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3064 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3065 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3066 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3067 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3068 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3070 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3071 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3073 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3075 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3076 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3077 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3079 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3081 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3082 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3083 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3084 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3085 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3087 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3089 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3092 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3094 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3096 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3098 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3101 Vim interface improvements
3102 --------------------------
3104 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3106 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3107 * Implementing archive in show view
3108 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3109 * Add delete commands
3112 Bindings improvements
3113 ---------------------
3115 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3117 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3118 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3120 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3122 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3126 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3127 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3128 `list(Messages)` works now
3129 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3131 These allow, for example:
3133 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3135 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3137 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3143 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3145 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3148 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3150 New build-system features
3151 -------------------------
3153 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3155 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3156 the configure script from some other directory:
3163 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3165 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3166 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3167 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3168 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3169 manual invocation of configure.
3171 New test-suite feature
3172 ----------------------
3174 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3176 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3177 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3178 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3179 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3180 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3183 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3185 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3186 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3187 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3188 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3189 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3190 are updated to take advantage of this.
3192 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3194 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3195 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3196 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3197 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3203 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3205 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3206 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3207 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3209 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3211 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3213 to:user@elsewhere.com
3215 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3217 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3219 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3221 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3222 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3223 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3226 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3227 from the Received headers in some cases
3229 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3230 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3232 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3234 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3236 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3238 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3239 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3240 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3242 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3243 -------------------------
3245 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3247 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3248 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3249 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3251 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3253 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3254 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3255 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3258 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3260 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3261 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3262 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3263 fixed to avoid this bug.
3265 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3267 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3268 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3270 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3271 ========================
3273 New, general features
3274 ---------------------
3276 Maildir-flag synchronization
3278 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3279 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3288 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3290 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3291 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3292 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3293 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3295 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3296 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3297 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3298 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3301 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3303 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3304 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3305 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3307 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3308 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3310 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3311 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3313 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3314 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3315 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3317 New library features
3318 --------------------
3320 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3322 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3323 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3324 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3325 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3327 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3328 message with the new function:
3330 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3332 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3333 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3334 over all available filenames for a given message.
3336 New command-line features
3337 -------------------------
3339 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3341 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3342 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3343 access to the mail store itself.
3345 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3346 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3347 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3348 name of a script containing:
3350 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3352 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3353 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3359 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3361 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3363 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3365 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3366 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3367 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3368 now produces nothing).
3370 Emacs interface improvements
3371 ----------------------------
3373 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3375 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3377 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3379 Display current thread subject in a header line
3381 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3383 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3385 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3386 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3387 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3388 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3389 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3390 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3391 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3393 Vim interface improvements
3394 --------------------------
3396 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3398 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3399 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3405 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3407 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3408 ========================
3410 New command-line features
3411 -------------------------
3413 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3415 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3416 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3417 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3419 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3420 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3421 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3422 scripts. For example:
3424 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3425 <operations-on> "$file"
3428 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3430 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3431 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3432 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3433 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3434 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3435 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3437 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3439 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3440 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3441 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3442 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3444 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3446 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3447 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3448 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3449 default rather than Bcc.
3451 New library features
3452 --------------------
3454 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3456 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3457 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3462 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3464 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3465 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3466 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3467 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3468 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3469 notmuch customize interface.
3471 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3473 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3474 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3475 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3476 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3478 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3480 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3481 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3482 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3483 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3485 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3487 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3488 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3489 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3490 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3491 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3492 notmuch customize interface.
3494 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3496 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3497 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3498 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3499 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3500 notmuch customize interface.
3502 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3504 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3505 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3506 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3507 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3510 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3512 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3513 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3514 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3517 New build-system features
3518 -------------------------
3520 Various portability fixes have been applied
3522 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3523 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3524 more portable than ever before.
3526 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3528 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3529 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3530 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3532 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3533 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3534 automatically run ldconfig.
3536 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3537 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3538 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3540 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3541 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3542 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3543 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3545 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3547 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3548 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3549 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3550 used in the resulting Makefile.
3552 New test-suite features
3553 -----------------------
3555 New modularization of test suite
3557 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3558 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3559 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3560 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3561 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3562 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3563 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3564 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3566 New testing of emacs interface
3568 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3569 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3570 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3571 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3572 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3573 database via the FCC setting.
3578 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3580 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3581 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3582 persistent error of the form:
3584 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3586 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3587 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3589 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3591 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3592 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3593 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3595 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3597 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3598 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3599 parsing the notmuch results).
3601 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3603 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3606 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3607 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3608 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3613 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3615 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3616 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3617 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3618 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3619 the emacs interface.
3621 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3623 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3624 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3625 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3627 Python-binding fixes
3628 --------------------
3630 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3632 Debian-specific fixes
3633 ---------------------
3635 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3637 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3638 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3639 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3642 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3643 ==========================
3648 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3650 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3651 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3652 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3653 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3655 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3657 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3658 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3659 want notmuch to crash.
3664 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3666 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3667 directory does not exist
3672 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3674 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3675 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3677 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3678 ========================
3680 New command-line features
3681 -------------------------
3683 User-configurable tags for new messages
3685 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3686 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3687 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3688 to specify this value.
3690 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3692 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3693 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3694 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3696 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3698 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3699 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3701 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3703 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3704 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3705 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3706 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3707 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3710 Indication of author names that match a search
3712 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3713 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3714 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3715 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3716 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3717 messages in the thread are listed first.
3719 New: Python bindings
3720 --------------------
3722 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3723 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3724 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3725 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3727 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3728 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3729 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3732 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3733 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3734 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3736 Emacs interface improvements
3737 ----------------------------
3739 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3741 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3742 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3743 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3744 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3745 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3746 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3747 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3748 but without any of the disadvantages).
3750 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3751 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3752 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3755 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3756 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3757 instead running something like:
3759 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3761 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3762 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3763 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3766 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3768 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3769 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3770 tweaked by the user.
3772 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3773 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3774 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3777 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3778 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3779 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3782 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3784 This support currently relies on an external program,
3785 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3786 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3787 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3788 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3789 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3792 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3793 notmuch) is available via:
3795 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3797 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3798 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3799 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3801 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3803 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3804 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3805 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3806 making this automatic in a future release.
3808 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3810 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3811 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3812 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3813 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3814 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3815 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3818 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3820 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3821 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3822 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3824 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3826 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3827 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3828 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3830 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3831 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3832 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3833 other representation.
3835 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3836 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3839 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3841 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3842 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3843 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3845 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3846 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3847 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3849 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3851 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3852 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3853 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3854 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3855 to display the search result.
3857 More flexible handling of header visibility
3859 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3860 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3861 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3862 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3863 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3864 with the 'h' keybinding.
3866 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3867 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3868 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3870 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3872 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3874 Customizable formatting of search results
3876 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3877 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3878 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3880 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3882 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3884 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3889 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3891 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3892 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3893 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3894 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3900 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3902 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3903 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3905 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3907 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3908 accept are now all accepted.
3913 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3915 Better display of output from failed tests
3917 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3918 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3920 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3921 ========================
3923 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3924 detailed release notes this time!
3926 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3927 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3929 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3930 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3931 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3932 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3939 Better guessing of From: header
3941 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3942 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3943 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3944 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3945 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3948 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3950 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3951 guaranteed to match all messages.
3953 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3955 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3956 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3957 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3958 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3959 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3962 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3965 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3966 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3967 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3968 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3973 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3975 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3976 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3977 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3978 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3980 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3982 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3984 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3985 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3986 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3988 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3990 Previously, the user might see:
3992 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3996 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3998 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3999 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4000 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4001 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4003 Emacs client features
4004 ---------------------
4006 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4008 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4009 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4010 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4011 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4012 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4014 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4017 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4018 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4019 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4020 search with the '*' binding.
4022 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4024 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4025 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4028 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4030 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4031 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4032 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4034 Build-system features
4035 ---------------------
4037 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4039 Add support to configure for many standard options
4041 We include actual support for:
4043 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4045 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4047 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4048 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4050 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4051 separate "make install-emacs"
4053 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4055 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4056 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4057 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4059 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4062 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4063 ========================
4065 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4067 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4068 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4070 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4071 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4072 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4073 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4074 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4075 tags from messages in a thread.
4082 indent-tabs-mode: nil