1 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
2 ===========================
7 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
9 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
11 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
12 ===========================
17 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
18 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
20 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
21 ===========================
26 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
28 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
29 =========================
34 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
35 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
38 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
39 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
40 the set of headers to be indexed.
42 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
45 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
46 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
47 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
50 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
51 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
52 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
54 Command Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
60 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
62 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
63 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
64 more details about what is included there. This status includes
65 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
70 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
71 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
73 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
75 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
77 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
79 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
81 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
84 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
86 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
87 and may be removed in a future release.
89 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
95 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
97 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
98 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
103 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
104 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
105 cryptography support.
110 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
111 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
112 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
114 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
115 ===========================
117 Command line interface
118 ----------------------
120 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
121 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
123 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
124 ===========================
129 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
130 by message properties.
135 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
137 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
138 ===========================
143 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
148 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
149 now needed to build this documentation.
151 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
152 ===========================
157 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
158 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
160 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
161 =========================
168 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
169 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
170 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
171 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
172 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
175 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
177 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
178 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
179 correct encoding for such messages.
181 Command Line Interface
182 ----------------------
184 Support relative database paths
186 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
187 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
188 to $HOME of the invoking user.
193 Improve stderr handling
195 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
196 needed on e.g. macOS.
198 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
200 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
205 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
206 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
212 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
213 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
219 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
220 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
223 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
224 =========================
229 Add support for thread:{} queries
231 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
232 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
233 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
235 Command Line Interface
236 ----------------------
238 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
240 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
242 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
244 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
245 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
246 does not have to be available during message receipt.
251 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
257 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
258 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
260 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
261 ===========================
266 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
268 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
269 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
270 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
272 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
274 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
275 related abort in `notmuch show`.
277 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
278 ===========================
283 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
284 better late than never.
287 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
288 =========================
290 Command Line Interface
291 ----------------------
293 Support for re-indexing existing messages
295 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
296 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
297 change the way specific messages are indexed.
299 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
300 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
301 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
303 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
305 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
307 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
309 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
310 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
311 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
312 the setting of `new.tags`.
314 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
316 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
318 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
320 This inserts into the top level folder.
322 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
324 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
326 New option --output=address for notmuch address
328 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
330 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
332 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
333 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
334 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
336 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
341 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
343 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
344 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
345 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
346 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
347 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
348 config set index.decrypt true".
350 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
351 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
352 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
353 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
354 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
355 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
356 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
357 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
359 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
360 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
361 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
362 this feature without considering the security of your index.
367 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
369 Use make-process when available
371 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
372 notmuch command without using temporary files.
377 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
379 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
380 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
381 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
382 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
384 New functions to count files
386 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
387 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
389 New function to remove properties
391 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
392 drop all properties with a common pattern:
393 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
395 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
397 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
398 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
399 possibility of NULL was not documented.
401 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
403 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
404 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
405 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
406 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
407 operator may decide to change from message to message.
414 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
415 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
416 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
422 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
424 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
425 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
427 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
429 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
431 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
433 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
438 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
439 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
441 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
442 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
443 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
444 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
445 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
446 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
451 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
453 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
454 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
455 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
456 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
458 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
459 ===========================
464 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
465 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
468 Command Line Interface
469 ----------------------
471 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
472 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
475 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
476 ===========================
478 Command Line Interface
479 ----------------------
481 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
482 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
487 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
490 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
491 ===========================
496 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
499 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
500 =========================
505 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
507 Skip HTML tags when indexing
509 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
511 Command Line Interface
512 ----------------------
514 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
516 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
521 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
523 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
524 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
527 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
532 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
534 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
535 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
537 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
539 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
540 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
543 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
545 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
547 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
549 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
550 ===========================
552 Command Line Interface
553 ----------------------
555 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
560 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
562 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
563 ===========================
568 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
570 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
571 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
574 Command Line Interface
575 ----------------------
577 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
579 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
581 Fix bug in dump header
583 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
584 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
585 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
590 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
592 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
593 =========================
598 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
600 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
603 Command Line Interface
604 ----------------------
606 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
608 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
609 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
610 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
612 New default output format to 3
614 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
615 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
616 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
617 default format changes.
622 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
624 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
625 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
626 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
627 or tree view to resume.
629 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
630 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
631 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
634 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
635 they were when you postponed in the final message.
639 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
640 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
641 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
642 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
643 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
647 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
648 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
649 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
650 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
651 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
652 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
656 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
657 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
659 Stop display of `application/*` parts
661 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
662 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
663 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
664 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
665 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
666 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
667 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
668 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
671 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
673 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
674 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
675 only tagged the current thread.)
677 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
679 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
680 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
681 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
683 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
685 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
686 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
687 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
688 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
689 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
690 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
691 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
693 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
695 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
696 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
697 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
702 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
704 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
707 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
709 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
712 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
713 ===========================
718 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
720 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
721 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
722 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
725 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
726 ===========================
728 Command Line Interface
729 ----------------------
731 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
736 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
738 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
739 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
740 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
742 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
743 ===========================
748 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
749 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
751 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
752 ===========================
754 Command Line Interface
755 ----------------------
757 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
759 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
760 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
761 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
766 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
768 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
769 ===========================
771 Command Line Interface
772 ----------------------
774 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
779 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
781 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
782 ===========================
787 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
789 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
790 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
791 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
793 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
795 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
797 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
798 ===========================
803 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
805 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
810 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
812 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
813 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
814 the original colours.
816 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
817 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
819 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
821 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
822 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
823 bug, and hence the test.
825 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
826 =========================
828 General (Xapian 1.4+)
829 ---------------------
831 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
833 Support for single argument date: queries
835 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
837 Support for blocking opens
839 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
840 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
842 Support for named queries
844 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
845 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
846 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
853 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
854 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
855 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
856 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
858 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
860 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
865 Support for compile time options
867 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
868 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
871 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
873 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
874 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
875 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
876 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
877 scripts to ignore it.
882 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
884 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
885 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
886 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
888 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
889 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
890 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
891 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
892 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
893 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
894 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
896 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
897 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
900 Make internal address completion customizable
902 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
903 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
904 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
905 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
908 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
910 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
911 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
912 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
913 completion for the current buffer.
915 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
916 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
917 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
921 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
922 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
923 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
924 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
925 will be added instead.
927 Face customization is easier
929 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
930 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
931 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
932 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
934 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
939 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
944 Go bindings moved to contrib
946 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
948 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
950 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
951 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
953 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
955 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
956 ===========================
963 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
964 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
966 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
968 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
970 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
971 ===========================
976 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
978 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
983 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
988 Use `env` to locate perl.
993 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
995 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
997 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
999 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1001 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1002 =========================
1009 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1010 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1012 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1014 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1015 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1016 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1021 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1022 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1023 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1025 Command Line Interface
1026 ----------------------
1028 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1030 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1035 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1040 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1042 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1043 parts are now included in replies.
1045 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1046 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1047 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1048 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1050 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1052 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1054 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1056 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1057 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1058 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1059 forwards only the current message.
1061 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1063 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1064 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1065 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1066 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1067 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1068 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1069 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1070 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1073 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1074 longer generate empty buffers
1076 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1077 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1078 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1079 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1080 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1082 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1084 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1087 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1089 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1092 Address completion improvements
1094 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1095 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1096 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1097 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1098 interactive address completion.
1100 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1102 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1103 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1104 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1109 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1110 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1111 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1117 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1118 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1119 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1120 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1121 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1122 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1124 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1125 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1126 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1127 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1128 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1129 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1131 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1132 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1134 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1135 =========================
1140 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1143 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1145 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1146 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1147 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1149 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1150 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1152 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1153 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1154 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1156 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1158 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1159 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1160 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1161 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1162 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1163 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1168 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1169 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1172 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1173 option to configure.
1175 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1177 Command Line Interface
1178 ----------------------
1180 Database revision tracking
1182 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1183 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1184 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1185 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1187 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1189 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1190 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1191 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1192 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1193 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1194 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1195 manual page for further information.
1200 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1202 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1203 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1205 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1207 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1208 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1209 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1211 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1213 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1215 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1216 customization as well.
1218 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1220 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1222 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1224 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1226 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1227 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1228 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1229 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1231 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1233 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1234 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1235 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1236 this variable to 10000.
1241 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1242 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1244 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1246 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1247 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1248 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1249 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1250 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1251 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1252 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1253 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1254 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1257 Database revision tracking
1259 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1260 query parser and the new function
1261 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1263 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1265 Deprecated functions
1267 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1268 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1269 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1270 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1275 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1277 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1278 ===========================
1283 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1285 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1286 ===========================
1291 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1293 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1294 =========================
1296 Command-Line Interface
1297 ----------------------
1299 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1301 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1302 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1303 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1305 Path to gpg is now configurable
1307 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1308 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1313 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1315 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1320 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1325 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1330 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1332 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1333 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1335 New error logging facility
1337 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1338 output formerly printed to stderr.
1340 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1342 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1344 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1346 Fix for rounding of seconds
1351 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1353 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1354 documentation has been removed.
1356 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1358 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1359 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1364 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1365 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1366 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1371 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1372 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1373 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1374 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1375 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1376 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1379 git checkout config origin/config
1381 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1383 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1384 =========================
1389 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1390 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1391 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1392 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1393 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1394 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1395 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1397 Command-Line Interface
1398 ----------------------
1400 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1402 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1403 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1404 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1405 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1406 script callers should still check the return value.
1408 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1410 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1411 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1412 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1413 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1414 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1415 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1416 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1418 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1420 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1421 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1422 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1424 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1426 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1427 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1428 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1429 currently unmaintained.
1431 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1433 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1434 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1435 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1436 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1438 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1440 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1441 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1442 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1443 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1444 count of duplicate addresses.
1449 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1451 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1452 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1453 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1456 Improved handling of the unread tag
1458 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1459 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1460 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1461 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1462 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1463 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1464 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1466 Expanded default saved search settings
1468 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1469 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1471 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1473 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1474 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1475 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1477 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1479 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1480 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1481 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1482 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1483 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1484 the variable for details.
1489 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1491 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1492 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1493 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1494 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1496 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1498 Previously, library users were required to call
1499 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1500 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1501 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1502 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1503 too out of date for that API.
1505 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1507 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1508 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1509 atomic section will be aborted.
1511 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1512 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1514 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1516 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1517 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1518 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1519 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1520 messages into the same thread.
1525 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1526 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1527 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1528 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1529 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1530 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1535 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1536 from the config file. Use something like:
1540 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1541 "footer": "</body></html>",
1550 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1555 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1556 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1557 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1559 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1560 ===========================
1565 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1567 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1569 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1571 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1572 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1574 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1576 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1579 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1580 ===========================
1582 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1587 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1589 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1591 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1593 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1595 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1601 Use --quick when starting emacs
1603 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1605 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1607 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1609 Command-Line Interface
1610 ----------------------
1612 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1613 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1618 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1620 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1621 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1623 Fix for phrase indexing
1625 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1626 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1627 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1632 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1634 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1635 unintentionally removed.
1637 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1638 =========================
1643 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1644 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1645 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1646 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1647 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1648 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1649 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1650 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1651 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1657 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1659 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1660 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1661 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1662 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1663 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1664 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1665 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1666 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1668 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1670 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1671 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1672 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1673 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1676 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1678 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1679 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1680 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1681 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1682 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1683 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1684 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1689 Notmuch database upgrade
1691 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1692 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1693 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1694 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1695 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1696 released version of Notmuch before now.
1698 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1700 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1701 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1702 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1703 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1705 Message header parsing changes
1707 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1708 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1709 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1710 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1711 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1712 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1714 Command-Line Interface
1715 ----------------------
1717 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1719 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1721 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1723 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1725 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1727 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1728 user does not want it.
1730 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1732 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1733 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1734 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1735 support formatted output.
1737 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1739 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1740 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1741 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1749 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1750 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1751 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1752 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1753 `~/.emacs` with these.
1755 Changed format for saved searches
1757 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1758 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1759 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1760 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1763 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1764 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1765 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1766 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1768 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1769 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1770 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1772 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1773 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1774 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1775 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1776 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1778 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1780 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1781 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1782 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1784 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1786 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1787 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1788 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1789 message had been unread).
1791 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1792 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1793 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1794 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1796 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1797 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1798 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1800 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1801 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1802 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1803 to tags already present.
1807 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1808 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1809 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1810 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1811 these differ from each other.
1812 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1814 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1816 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1817 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1818 for these Emacs versions.
1820 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1822 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1823 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1825 Bug fixes for sender identities
1827 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1828 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1829 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1831 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1833 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1834 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1835 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1836 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1838 Reply pushes mark before signature
1840 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1841 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1842 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1844 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1846 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1847 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1853 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1854 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1856 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1857 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1858 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1859 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1861 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1862 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1863 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1864 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1865 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1867 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1869 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1870 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1872 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1873 =========================
1875 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1876 ---------------------------------------
1878 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1879 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1880 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1881 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1882 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1883 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1884 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1888 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1889 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1891 Command-Line Interface
1892 ----------------------
1894 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1896 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1897 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1898 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1899 print for each message.
1901 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1902 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1903 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1904 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1906 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1908 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1909 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1910 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1912 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1914 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1915 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1916 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1917 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1919 `notmuch compact` command
1921 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1922 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1923 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1924 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1925 move the compacted database into place.
1930 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1932 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1933 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1934 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1935 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1936 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1937 and multiple threads.
1939 Using `notmuch-tree`
1941 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1943 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1944 search, show and tree mode itself)
1946 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1949 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1950 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1952 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1954 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1955 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1956 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1957 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1958 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1959 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1960 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1962 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1964 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1965 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1966 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1967 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1968 thread when the search was performed.
1970 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1972 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1973 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1974 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1976 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1978 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1979 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1982 Built-in help improvements
1984 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1985 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1986 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1988 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1990 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1991 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1992 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1994 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1996 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1997 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1999 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2001 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2002 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2003 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2004 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2006 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2008 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2009 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2010 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2011 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2013 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2015 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2016 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2017 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2019 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2021 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2022 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2023 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2025 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2027 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2028 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2029 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2030 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2031 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2033 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2035 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2036 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2037 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2038 the body part of the message.
2043 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2044 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2045 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2047 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2048 =========================
2050 Command-Line Interface
2051 ----------------------
2053 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2055 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2056 folder and notmuch index.
2058 `notmuch count --batch` option
2060 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2061 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2063 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2065 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2066 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2067 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2070 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2072 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2073 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2074 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2075 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2076 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2079 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2081 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2082 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2084 Top level option to specify configuration file
2086 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2087 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2089 Bash command-line completion
2091 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2092 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2093 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2094 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2095 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2096 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2097 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2098 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2099 bash-completion package.
2101 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2106 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2108 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2109 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2110 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2111 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2112 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2113 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2114 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2115 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2117 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2119 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2120 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2121 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2123 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2125 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2126 previous thread in the search results.
2128 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2130 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2131 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2133 Faster search and show
2135 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2136 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2137 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2138 threads should show faster.
2142 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2143 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2144 in question was now removed from this release.
2149 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2150 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2155 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2157 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2158 ===========================
2163 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2165 Internal test framework changes
2166 -------------------------------
2168 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2169 being unimplemented.
2171 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2172 ===========================
2174 Internal test framework changes
2175 -------------------------------
2177 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2178 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2180 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2181 =========================
2186 Date range search support
2188 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2189 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2190 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2191 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2192 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2195 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2197 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2198 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2199 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2200 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2201 but may be removed in a future release.
2203 Command-Line Interface
2204 ----------------------
2206 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2208 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2209 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2211 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2213 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2214 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2215 officially deprecated.
2217 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2219 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2220 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2221 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2223 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2225 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2226 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2229 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2230 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2231 dump/restore format.
2233 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2235 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2236 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2237 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2239 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2241 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2242 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2243 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2245 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2247 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2248 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2249 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2250 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2255 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2257 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2258 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2259 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2260 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2262 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2264 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2265 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2266 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2267 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2268 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2269 the behavior of this, see
2270 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2271 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2273 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2274 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2275 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2277 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2279 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2280 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2283 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2285 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2286 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2287 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2288 simply displayed in place of the message.
2290 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2292 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2293 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2295 Improved text/calendar content handling
2297 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2298 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2299 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2300 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2302 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2304 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2305 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2306 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2307 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2309 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2311 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2312 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2313 for HTML email containing images.
2315 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2317 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2319 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2321 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2324 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2326 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2327 the point where it was.
2329 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2331 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2332 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2333 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2334 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2335 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2337 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2339 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2340 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2341 thread instead of the message id.
2343 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2344 -----------------------------
2346 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2347 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2348 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2349 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2350 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2351 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2352 further details and installation.
2357 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2359 Internal test framework changes
2360 -------------------------------
2362 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2364 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2365 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2366 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2367 can result in buggy behavior.
2369 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2370 =========================
2375 Maildir tag synchronization
2377 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2378 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2379 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2380 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2381 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2382 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2385 Command-Line Interface
2386 ----------------------
2388 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2389 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2390 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2391 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2392 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2398 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2400 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2402 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2403 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2404 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2406 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2408 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2409 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2410 span multiple lines.
2412 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2414 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2415 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2416 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2417 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2418 inside the result or message.
2420 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2422 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2423 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2425 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2426 user-specified formatting
2428 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2429 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2430 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2431 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2432 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2434 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2435 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2437 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2438 ===========================
2443 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2444 compilation error for this contrib package.
2446 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2447 ===========================
2452 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2454 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2455 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2456 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2457 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2459 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2460 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2463 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2464 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2465 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2466 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2469 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2471 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2474 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2475 =========================
2477 Command-Line Interface
2478 ----------------------
2482 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2483 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2484 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2485 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2487 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2488 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2489 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2490 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2494 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2495 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2497 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2498 tag in your query, for example:
2500 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2502 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2503 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2505 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2506 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2508 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2510 Raw show format changes
2512 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2513 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2514 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2515 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2516 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2517 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2518 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2519 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2521 Listing configuration items
2523 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2529 Changes to tagging interface
2531 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2532 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2533 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2534 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2535 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2536 for more information.
2538 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2539 may need to update in custom configurations.
2541 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2543 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2544 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2545 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2546 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2549 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2550 -----------------------------
2552 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2553 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2554 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2555 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2556 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2557 contrib/ from now on.
2562 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2563 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2565 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2566 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2568 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2569 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2570 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2572 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2573 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2575 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2576 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2577 returning the new database object or directory object.
2584 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2585 compatible with go 1.
2587 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2588 =========================
2590 Command-Line Interface
2591 ----------------------
2595 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2596 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2597 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2598 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2600 Mail store folder/file ignore
2602 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2603 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2604 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2606 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2607 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2609 Unified help and manual pages
2611 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2612 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2615 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2617 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2618 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2626 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2627 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2628 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2629 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2631 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2633 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2634 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2636 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2639 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2640 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2641 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2643 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2645 should be changed to:
2647 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2649 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2651 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2652 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2654 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2656 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2657 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2658 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2659 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2660 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2661 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2665 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2666 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2667 of Mailing List Archives.
2669 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2671 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2672 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2675 Show view archiving key binding changes
2677 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2678 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2679 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2680 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2681 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2684 Support text/calendar MIME type
2686 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2689 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2691 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2692 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2693 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2694 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2696 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2698 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2699 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2700 messages blue by default in the search view.
2704 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2705 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2712 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2715 Python bindings changes
2716 -----------------------
2718 Python 3.2 compatibility
2720 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2722 Added missing unicode conversions
2724 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2725 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2726 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2731 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2733 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2734 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2735 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2736 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2737 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2739 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2740 ===========================
2745 Fix error handling in python bindings
2747 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2748 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2749 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2750 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2752 Quote MML tags in replies
2754 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2755 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2756 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2757 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2758 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2759 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2760 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2761 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2763 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2764 =========================
2766 Command-Line Interface
2767 ----------------------
2771 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2772 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2773 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2774 importing new messages into the database.
2776 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2778 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2779 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2780 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2785 Automatic tag query optimization
2787 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2788 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2789 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2791 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2793 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2794 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2795 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2800 Reduction of memory leaks
2802 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2803 and fixed in this release.
2810 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2811 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2812 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2815 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2817 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2818 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2819 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2822 Improvements in saved search management
2824 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2825 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2826 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2828 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2830 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2831 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2832 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2834 New face for crypto parts headers
2836 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2837 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2838 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2841 Use space as default thousands separator
2843 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2844 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2845 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2847 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2848 buttonized id: links
2850 New function notmuch-show-advance
2852 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2853 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2854 be bound to SPC with:
2856 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2858 Various performance improvements
2863 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2864 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2867 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2868 ===========================
2873 Fix crash in python bindings
2875 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2876 for some, but not all users.
2878 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2879 ===========================
2884 Fix `--help` argument
2886 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2887 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2888 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2890 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2891 =========================
2893 New build and testing features
2894 ------------------------------
2896 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2897 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2898 prerequisites is improved.
2900 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2902 New command-line features
2903 -------------------------
2905 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2907 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2908 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2911 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2913 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2914 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2915 favour of using stdout.
2917 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2919 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2920 limit the number of results shown.
2922 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2924 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2925 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2928 New emacs UI features
2929 ---------------------
2931 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2933 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2934 starting with "tag:".
2936 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2938 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2939 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2941 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2943 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2945 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2947 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2948 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2953 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2955 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2957 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2958 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2959 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2960 requires a database rebuild:
2962 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2963 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2965 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2967 New collection of add-on tools
2968 ------------------------------
2970 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2971 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2972 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2975 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2977 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2978 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2979 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2981 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2982 ========================
2984 New, general features
2985 ---------------------
2987 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2989 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2990 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2991 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2992 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2993 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3000 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3001 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3003 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3007 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3008 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3009 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3012 Python bindings changes
3013 -----------------------
3015 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3017 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3018 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3019 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3020 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3021 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3022 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3024 Ruby bindings changes
3025 ---------------------
3027 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3028 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3029 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3030 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3035 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3037 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3038 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3040 Reply formatting cleanup
3041 ------------------------
3043 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3044 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3046 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3047 ========================
3049 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3051 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3052 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3053 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3054 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3057 Improved Build system portability
3059 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3060 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3061 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3063 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3065 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3067 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3069 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3070 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3071 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3073 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3074 ========================
3076 Vim interface improvements
3077 --------------------------
3079 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3081 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3082 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3083 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3084 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3085 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3087 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3089 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3090 * fix compose temp file name
3092 Python Bindings changes
3093 -----------------------
3095 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3097 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3098 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3100 Build-System improvements
3101 -------------------------
3103 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3105 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3108 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3109 ==========================
3114 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3116 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3117 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3119 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3120 =======================
3122 New, general features
3123 ---------------------
3125 Folder-based searching
3127 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3128 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3129 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3133 For example, one might use things such as:
3139 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3140 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3142 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3143 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3144 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3145 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3147 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3148 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3149 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3152 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3153 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3155 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3157 Support for PGP/MIME
3159 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3160 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3161 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3163 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3165 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3166 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3168 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3169 notmuch will receive these tags.
3171 New command-line features
3172 -------------------------
3174 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3176 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3177 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3179 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3181 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3182 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3183 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3185 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3187 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3188 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3189 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3190 which parts a signature part applies).
3192 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3194 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3195 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3196 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3197 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3198 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3201 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3203 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3204 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3205 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3206 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3207 by translating it internally to the new call.
3209 Performance improvements
3210 ------------------------
3212 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3214 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3215 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3216 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3218 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3219 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3221 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3223 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3224 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3225 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3227 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3228 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3229 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3230 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3232 Faster initial indexing
3234 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3235 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3236 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3238 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3240 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3241 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3242 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3243 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3245 New emacs-interface features
3246 ----------------------------
3248 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3250 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3251 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3252 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3253 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3254 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3255 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3257 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3259 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3260 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3261 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3262 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3264 User-selectable From address
3266 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3267 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3268 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3269 will prompt for the from address to use.
3271 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3272 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3273 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3275 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3276 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3277 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3280 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3282 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3283 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3285 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3287 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3289 ----- Original Message -----
3291 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3292 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3293 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3294 citations work much like conventional citations.
3296 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3298 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3299 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3300 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3301 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3302 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3304 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3305 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3307 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3309 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3310 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3311 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3313 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3315 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3316 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3317 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3318 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3319 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3321 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3323 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3326 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3328 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3330 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3332 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3335 Vim interface improvements
3336 --------------------------
3338 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3340 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3341 * Implementing archive in show view
3342 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3343 * Add delete commands
3346 Bindings improvements
3347 ---------------------
3349 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3351 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3352 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3354 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3356 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3360 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3361 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3362 `list(Messages)` works now
3363 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3365 These allow, for example:
3367 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3369 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3371 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3377 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3379 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3382 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3384 New build-system features
3385 -------------------------
3387 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3389 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3390 the configure script from some other directory:
3397 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3399 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3400 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3401 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3402 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3403 manual invocation of configure.
3405 New test-suite feature
3406 ----------------------
3408 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3410 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3411 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3412 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3413 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3414 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3417 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3419 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3420 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3421 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3422 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3423 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3424 are updated to take advantage of this.
3426 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3428 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3429 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3430 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3431 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3437 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3439 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3440 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3441 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3443 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3445 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3447 to:user@elsewhere.com
3449 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3451 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3453 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3455 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3456 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3457 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3460 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3461 from the Received headers in some cases
3463 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3464 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3466 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3468 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3470 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3472 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3473 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3474 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3476 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3477 -------------------------
3479 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3481 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3482 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3483 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3485 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3487 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3488 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3489 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3492 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3494 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3495 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3496 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3497 fixed to avoid this bug.
3499 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3501 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3502 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3504 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3505 ========================
3507 New, general features
3508 ---------------------
3510 Maildir-flag synchronization
3512 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3513 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3522 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3524 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3525 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3526 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3527 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3529 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3530 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3531 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3532 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3535 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3537 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3538 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3539 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3541 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3542 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3544 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3545 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3547 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3548 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3549 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3551 New library features
3552 --------------------
3554 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3556 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3557 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3558 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3559 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3561 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3562 message with the new function:
3564 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3566 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3567 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3568 over all available filenames for a given message.
3570 New command-line features
3571 -------------------------
3573 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3575 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3576 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3577 access to the mail store itself.
3579 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3580 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3581 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3582 name of a script containing:
3584 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3586 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3587 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3593 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3595 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3597 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3599 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3600 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3601 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3602 now produces nothing).
3604 Emacs interface improvements
3605 ----------------------------
3607 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3609 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3611 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3613 Display current thread subject in a header line
3615 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3617 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3619 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3620 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3621 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3622 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3623 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3624 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3625 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3627 Vim interface improvements
3628 --------------------------
3630 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3632 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3633 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3639 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3641 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3642 ========================
3644 New command-line features
3645 -------------------------
3647 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3649 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3650 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3651 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3653 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3654 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3655 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3656 scripts. For example:
3658 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3659 <operations-on> "$file"
3662 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3664 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3665 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3666 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3667 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3668 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3669 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3671 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3673 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3674 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3675 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3676 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3678 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3680 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3681 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3682 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3683 default rather than Bcc.
3685 New library features
3686 --------------------
3688 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3690 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3691 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3696 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3698 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3699 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3700 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3701 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3702 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3703 notmuch customize interface.
3705 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3707 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3708 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3709 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3710 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3712 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3714 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3715 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3716 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3717 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3719 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3721 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3722 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3723 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3724 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3725 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3726 notmuch customize interface.
3728 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3730 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3731 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3732 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3733 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3734 notmuch customize interface.
3736 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3738 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3739 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3740 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3741 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3744 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3746 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3747 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3748 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3751 New build-system features
3752 -------------------------
3754 Various portability fixes have been applied
3756 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3757 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3758 more portable than ever before.
3760 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3762 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3763 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3764 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3766 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3767 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3768 automatically run ldconfig.
3770 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3771 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3772 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3774 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3775 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3776 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3777 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3779 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3781 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3782 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3783 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3784 used in the resulting Makefile.
3786 New test-suite features
3787 -----------------------
3789 New modularization of test suite
3791 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3792 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3793 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3794 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3795 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3796 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3797 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3798 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3800 New testing of emacs interface
3802 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3803 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3804 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3805 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3806 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3807 database via the FCC setting.
3812 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3814 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3815 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3816 persistent error of the form:
3818 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3820 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3821 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3823 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3825 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3826 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3827 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3829 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3831 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3832 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3833 parsing the notmuch results).
3835 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3837 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3840 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3841 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3842 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3847 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3849 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3850 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3851 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3852 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3853 the emacs interface.
3855 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3857 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3858 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3859 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3861 Python-binding fixes
3862 --------------------
3864 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3866 Debian-specific fixes
3867 ---------------------
3869 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3871 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3872 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3873 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3876 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3877 ==========================
3882 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3884 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3885 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3886 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3887 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3889 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3891 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3892 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3893 want notmuch to crash.
3898 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3900 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3901 directory does not exist
3906 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3908 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3909 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3911 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3912 ========================
3914 New command-line features
3915 -------------------------
3917 User-configurable tags for new messages
3919 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3920 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3921 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3922 to specify this value.
3924 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3926 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3927 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3928 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3930 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3932 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3933 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3935 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3937 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3938 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3939 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3940 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3941 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3944 Indication of author names that match a search
3946 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3947 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3948 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3949 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3950 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3951 messages in the thread are listed first.
3953 New: Python bindings
3954 --------------------
3956 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3957 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3958 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3959 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3961 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3962 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3963 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3966 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3967 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3968 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3970 Emacs interface improvements
3971 ----------------------------
3973 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3975 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3976 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3977 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3978 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3979 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3980 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3981 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3982 but without any of the disadvantages).
3984 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3985 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3986 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3989 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3990 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3991 instead running something like:
3993 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3995 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3996 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3997 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4000 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4002 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4003 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4004 tweaked by the user.
4006 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4007 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4008 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4011 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4012 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4013 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4016 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4018 This support currently relies on an external program,
4019 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4020 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4021 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4022 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4023 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4026 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4027 notmuch) is available via:
4029 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4031 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4032 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4033 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4035 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4037 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4038 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4039 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4040 making this automatic in a future release.
4042 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4044 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4045 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4046 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4047 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4048 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4049 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4052 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4054 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4055 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4056 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4058 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4060 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4061 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4062 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4064 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4065 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4066 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4067 other representation.
4069 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4070 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4073 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4075 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4076 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4077 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4079 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4080 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4081 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4083 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4085 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4086 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4087 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4088 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4089 to display the search result.
4091 More flexible handling of header visibility
4093 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4094 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4095 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4096 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4097 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4098 with the 'h' keybinding.
4100 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4101 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4102 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4104 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4106 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4108 Customizable formatting of search results
4110 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4111 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4112 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4114 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4116 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4118 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4123 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4125 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4126 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4127 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4128 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4134 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4136 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4137 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4139 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4141 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4142 accept are now all accepted.
4147 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4149 Better display of output from failed tests
4151 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4152 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4154 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4155 ========================
4157 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4158 detailed release notes this time!
4160 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4161 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4163 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4164 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4165 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4166 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4173 Better guessing of From: header
4175 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4176 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4177 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4178 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4179 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4182 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4184 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4185 guaranteed to match all messages.
4187 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4189 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4190 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4191 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4192 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4193 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4196 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4199 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4200 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4201 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4202 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4207 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4209 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4210 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4211 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4212 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4214 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4216 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4218 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4219 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4220 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4222 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4224 Previously, the user might see:
4226 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4230 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4232 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4233 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4234 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4235 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4237 Emacs client features
4238 ---------------------
4240 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4242 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4243 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4244 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4245 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4246 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4248 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4251 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4252 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4253 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4254 search with the '*' binding.
4256 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4258 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4259 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4262 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4264 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4265 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4266 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4268 Build-system features
4269 ---------------------
4271 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4273 Add support to configure for many standard options
4275 We include actual support for:
4277 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4279 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4281 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4282 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4284 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4285 separate "make install-emacs"
4287 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4289 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4290 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4291 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4293 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4296 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4297 ========================
4299 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4301 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4302 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4304 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4305 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4306 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4307 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4308 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4309 tags from messages in a thread.
4316 indent-tabs-mode: nil