1 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
2 ===========================
7 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
12 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
13 with a C++ header for some compilers.
15 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
17 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
18 =========================
23 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
24 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
25 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
27 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
29 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
31 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
33 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
36 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
38 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
39 search, show and tree mode)
41 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
44 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
47 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
48 always be newest first.
53 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
54 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
55 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
61 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
62 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
63 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
64 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
66 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
67 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
68 non-status providing versions.
70 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
71 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
73 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
74 promised in the documentation.
79 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
80 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
81 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
86 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
92 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
97 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
99 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
100 =========================
105 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
106 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
107 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
110 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
116 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
117 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
118 notmuch-properties(7)).
123 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
124 has protected headers (see
125 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
126 notmuch-properties(7)).
131 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
133 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
134 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
140 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
143 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
144 ===========================
149 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
151 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
156 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
158 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
159 ===========================
164 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
165 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
167 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
168 ===========================
173 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
175 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
176 =========================
181 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
182 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
185 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
186 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
187 the set of headers to be indexed.
189 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
192 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
193 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
194 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
197 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
198 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
199 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
201 Command Line Interface
202 ----------------------
204 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
207 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
209 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
210 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
211 more details about what is included there. This status includes
212 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
217 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
218 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
220 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
222 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
224 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
226 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
228 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
231 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
233 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
234 and may be removed in a future release.
236 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
242 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
244 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
245 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
250 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
251 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
252 cryptography support.
257 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
258 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
259 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
261 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
262 ===========================
264 Command line interface
265 ----------------------
267 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
268 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
270 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
271 ===========================
276 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
277 by message properties.
282 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
284 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
285 ===========================
290 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
295 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
296 now needed to build this documentation.
298 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
299 ===========================
304 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
305 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
307 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
308 =========================
315 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
316 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
317 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
318 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
319 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
322 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
324 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
325 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
326 correct encoding for such messages.
328 Command Line Interface
329 ----------------------
331 Support relative database paths
333 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
334 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
335 to $HOME of the invoking user.
340 Improve stderr handling
342 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
343 needed on e.g. macOS.
345 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
347 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
352 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
353 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
359 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
360 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
366 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
367 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
370 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
371 =========================
376 Add support for thread:{} queries
378 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
379 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
380 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
382 Command Line Interface
383 ----------------------
385 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
387 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
389 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
391 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
392 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
393 does not have to be available during message receipt.
398 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
404 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
405 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
407 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
408 ===========================
413 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
415 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
416 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
417 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
419 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
421 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
422 related abort in `notmuch show`.
424 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
425 ===========================
430 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
431 better late than never.
434 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
435 =========================
437 Command Line Interface
438 ----------------------
440 Support for re-indexing existing messages
442 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
443 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
444 change the way specific messages are indexed.
446 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
447 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
448 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
450 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
452 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
454 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
456 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
457 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
458 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
459 the setting of `new.tags`.
461 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
463 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
465 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
467 This inserts into the top level folder.
469 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
471 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
473 New option --output=address for notmuch address
475 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
477 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
479 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
480 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
481 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
483 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
488 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
490 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
491 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
492 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
493 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
494 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
495 config set index.decrypt true".
497 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
498 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
499 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
500 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
501 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
502 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
503 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
504 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
506 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
507 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
508 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
509 this feature without considering the security of your index.
514 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
516 Use make-process when available
518 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
519 notmuch command without using temporary files.
524 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
526 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
527 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
528 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
529 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
531 New functions to count files
533 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
534 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
536 New function to remove properties
538 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
539 drop all properties with a common pattern:
540 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
542 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
544 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
545 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
546 possibility of NULL was not documented.
548 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
550 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
551 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
552 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
553 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
554 operator may decide to change from message to message.
561 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
562 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
563 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
569 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
571 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
572 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
574 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
576 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
578 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
580 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
585 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
586 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
588 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
589 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
590 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
591 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
592 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
593 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
598 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
600 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
601 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
602 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
603 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
605 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
606 ===========================
611 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
612 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
615 Command Line Interface
616 ----------------------
618 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
619 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
622 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
623 ===========================
625 Command Line Interface
626 ----------------------
628 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
629 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
634 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
637 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
638 ===========================
643 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
646 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
647 =========================
652 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
654 Skip HTML tags when indexing
656 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
658 Command Line Interface
659 ----------------------
661 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
663 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
668 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
670 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
671 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
674 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
679 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
681 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
682 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
684 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
686 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
687 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
690 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
692 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
694 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
696 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
697 ===========================
699 Command Line Interface
700 ----------------------
702 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
707 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
709 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
710 ===========================
715 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
717 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
718 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
721 Command Line Interface
722 ----------------------
724 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
726 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
728 Fix bug in dump header
730 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
731 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
732 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
737 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
739 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
740 =========================
745 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
747 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
750 Command Line Interface
751 ----------------------
753 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
755 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
756 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
757 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
759 New default output format to 3
761 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
762 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
763 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
764 default format changes.
769 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
771 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
772 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
773 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
774 or tree view to resume.
776 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
777 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
778 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
781 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
782 they were when you postponed in the final message.
786 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
787 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
788 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
789 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
790 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
794 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
795 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
796 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
797 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
798 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
799 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
803 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
804 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
806 Stop display of `application/*` parts
808 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
809 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
810 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
811 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
812 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
813 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
814 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
815 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
818 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
820 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
821 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
822 only tagged the current thread.)
824 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
826 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
827 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
828 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
830 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
832 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
833 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
834 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
835 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
836 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
837 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
838 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
840 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
842 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
843 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
844 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
849 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
851 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
854 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
856 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
859 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
860 ===========================
865 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
867 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
868 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
869 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
872 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
873 ===========================
875 Command Line Interface
876 ----------------------
878 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
883 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
885 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
886 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
887 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
889 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
890 ===========================
895 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
896 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
898 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
899 ===========================
901 Command Line Interface
902 ----------------------
904 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
906 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
907 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
908 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
913 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
915 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
916 ===========================
918 Command Line Interface
919 ----------------------
921 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
926 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
928 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
929 ===========================
934 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
936 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
937 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
938 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
940 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
942 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
944 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
945 ===========================
950 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
952 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
957 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
959 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
960 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
961 the original colours.
963 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
964 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
966 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
968 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
969 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
970 bug, and hence the test.
972 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
973 =========================
975 General (Xapian 1.4+)
976 ---------------------
978 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
980 Support for single argument date: queries
982 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
984 Support for blocking opens
986 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
987 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
989 Support for named queries
991 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
992 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
993 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1000 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1001 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1002 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1003 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1005 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1007 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1012 Support for compile time options
1014 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1015 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1018 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1020 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1021 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1022 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1023 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1024 scripts to ignore it.
1029 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1031 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1032 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1033 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1035 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1036 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1037 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1038 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1039 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1040 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1041 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1043 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1044 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1047 Make internal address completion customizable
1049 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1050 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1051 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1052 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1055 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1057 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1058 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1059 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1060 completion for the current buffer.
1062 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1063 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1064 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1068 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1069 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1070 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1071 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1072 will be added instead.
1074 Face customization is easier
1076 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1077 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1078 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1079 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1081 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1086 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1091 Go bindings moved to contrib
1093 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1095 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1097 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1098 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1100 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1102 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1103 ===========================
1110 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1111 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1113 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1115 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1117 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1118 ===========================
1123 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1125 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1130 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1135 Use `env` to locate perl.
1140 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1142 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1144 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1146 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1148 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1149 =========================
1156 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1157 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1159 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1161 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1162 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1163 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1168 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1169 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1170 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1172 Command Line Interface
1173 ----------------------
1175 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1177 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1182 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1187 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1189 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1190 parts are now included in replies.
1192 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1193 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1194 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1195 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1197 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1199 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1201 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1203 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1204 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1205 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1206 forwards only the current message.
1208 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1210 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1211 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1212 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1213 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1214 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1215 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1216 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1217 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1220 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1221 longer generate empty buffers
1223 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1224 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1225 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1226 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1227 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1229 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1231 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1234 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1236 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1239 Address completion improvements
1241 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1242 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1243 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1244 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1245 interactive address completion.
1247 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1249 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1250 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1251 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1256 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1257 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1258 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1264 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1265 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1266 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1267 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1268 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1269 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1271 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1272 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1273 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1274 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1275 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1276 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1278 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1279 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1281 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1282 =========================
1287 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1290 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1292 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1293 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1294 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1296 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1297 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1299 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1300 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1301 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1303 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1305 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1306 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1307 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1308 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1309 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1310 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1315 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1316 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1319 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1320 option to configure.
1322 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1324 Command Line Interface
1325 ----------------------
1327 Database revision tracking
1329 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1330 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1331 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1332 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1334 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1336 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1337 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1338 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1339 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1340 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1341 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1342 manual page for further information.
1347 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1349 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1350 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1352 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1354 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1355 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1356 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1358 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1360 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1362 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1363 customization as well.
1365 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1367 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1369 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1371 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1373 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1374 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1375 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1376 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1378 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1380 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1381 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1382 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1383 this variable to 10000.
1388 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1389 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1391 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1393 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1394 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1395 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1396 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1397 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1398 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1399 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1400 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1401 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1404 Database revision tracking
1406 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1407 query parser and the new function
1408 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1410 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1412 Deprecated functions
1414 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1415 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1416 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1417 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1422 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1424 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1425 ===========================
1430 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1432 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1433 ===========================
1438 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1440 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1441 =========================
1443 Command-Line Interface
1444 ----------------------
1446 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1448 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1449 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1450 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1452 Path to gpg is now configurable
1454 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1455 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1460 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1462 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1467 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1472 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1477 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1479 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1480 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1482 New error logging facility
1484 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1485 output formerly printed to stderr.
1487 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1489 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1491 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1493 Fix for rounding of seconds
1498 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1500 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1501 documentation has been removed.
1503 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1505 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1506 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1511 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1512 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1513 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1518 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1519 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1520 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1521 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1522 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1523 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1526 git checkout config origin/config
1528 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1530 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1531 =========================
1536 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1537 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1538 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1539 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1540 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1541 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1542 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1544 Command-Line Interface
1545 ----------------------
1547 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1549 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1550 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1551 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1552 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1553 script callers should still check the return value.
1555 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1557 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1558 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1559 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1560 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1561 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1562 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1563 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1565 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1567 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1568 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1569 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1571 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1573 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1574 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1575 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1576 currently unmaintained.
1578 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1580 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1581 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1582 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1583 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1585 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1587 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1588 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1589 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1590 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1591 count of duplicate addresses.
1596 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1598 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1599 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1600 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1603 Improved handling of the unread tag
1605 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1606 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1607 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1608 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1609 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1610 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1611 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1613 Expanded default saved search settings
1615 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1616 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1618 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1620 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1621 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1622 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1624 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1626 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1627 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1628 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1629 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1630 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1631 the variable for details.
1636 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1638 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1639 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1640 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1641 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1643 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1645 Previously, library users were required to call
1646 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1647 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1648 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1649 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1650 too out of date for that API.
1652 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1654 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1655 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1656 atomic section will be aborted.
1658 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1659 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1661 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1663 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1664 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1665 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1666 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1667 messages into the same thread.
1672 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1673 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1674 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1675 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1676 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1677 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1682 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1683 from the config file. Use something like:
1687 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1688 "footer": "</body></html>",
1697 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1702 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1703 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1704 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1706 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1707 ===========================
1712 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1714 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1716 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1718 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1719 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1721 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1723 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1726 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1727 ===========================
1729 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1734 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1736 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1738 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1740 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1742 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1748 Use --quick when starting emacs
1750 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1752 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1754 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1756 Command-Line Interface
1757 ----------------------
1759 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1760 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1765 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1767 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1768 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1770 Fix for phrase indexing
1772 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1773 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1774 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1779 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1781 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1782 unintentionally removed.
1784 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1785 =========================
1790 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1791 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1792 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1793 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1794 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1795 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1796 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1797 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1798 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1804 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1806 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1807 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1808 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1809 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1810 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1811 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1812 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1813 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1815 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1817 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1818 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1819 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1820 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1823 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1825 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1826 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1827 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1828 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1829 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1830 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1831 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1836 Notmuch database upgrade
1838 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1839 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1840 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1841 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1842 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1843 released version of Notmuch before now.
1845 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1847 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1848 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1849 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1850 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1852 Message header parsing changes
1854 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1855 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1856 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1857 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1858 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1859 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1861 Command-Line Interface
1862 ----------------------
1864 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1866 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1868 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1870 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1872 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1874 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1875 user does not want it.
1877 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1879 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1880 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1881 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1882 support formatted output.
1884 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1886 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1887 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1888 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1896 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1897 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1898 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1899 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1900 `~/.emacs` with these.
1902 Changed format for saved searches
1904 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1905 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1906 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1907 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1910 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1911 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1912 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1913 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1915 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1916 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1917 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1919 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1920 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1921 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1922 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1923 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1925 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1927 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1928 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1929 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1931 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1933 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1934 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1935 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1936 message had been unread).
1938 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1939 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1940 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1941 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1943 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1944 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1945 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1947 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1948 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1949 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1950 to tags already present.
1954 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1955 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1956 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1957 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1958 these differ from each other.
1959 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1961 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1963 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1964 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1965 for these Emacs versions.
1967 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1969 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1970 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1972 Bug fixes for sender identities
1974 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1975 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1976 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1978 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1980 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1981 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1982 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1983 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1985 Reply pushes mark before signature
1987 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1988 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1989 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1991 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1993 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1994 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2000 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2001 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2003 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2004 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2005 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2006 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2008 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2009 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2010 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2011 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2012 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2014 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2016 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2017 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2019 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2020 =========================
2022 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2023 ---------------------------------------
2025 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2026 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2027 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2028 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2029 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2030 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2031 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2035 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2036 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2038 Command-Line Interface
2039 ----------------------
2041 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2043 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2044 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2045 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2046 print for each message.
2048 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2049 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2050 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2051 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2053 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2055 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2056 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2057 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2059 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2061 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2062 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2063 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2064 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2066 `notmuch compact` command
2068 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2069 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2070 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2071 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2072 move the compacted database into place.
2077 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2079 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2080 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2081 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2082 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2083 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2084 and multiple threads.
2086 Using `notmuch-tree`
2088 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2090 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2091 search, show and tree mode itself)
2093 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2096 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2097 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2099 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2101 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2102 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2103 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2104 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2105 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2106 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2107 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2109 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2111 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2112 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2113 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2114 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2115 thread when the search was performed.
2117 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2119 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2120 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2121 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2123 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2125 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2126 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2129 Built-in help improvements
2131 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2132 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2133 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2135 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2137 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2138 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2139 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2141 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2143 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2144 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2146 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2148 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2149 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2150 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2151 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2153 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2155 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2156 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2157 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2158 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2160 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2162 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2163 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2164 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2166 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2168 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2169 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2170 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2172 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2174 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2175 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2176 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2177 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2178 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2180 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2182 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2183 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2184 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2185 the body part of the message.
2190 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2191 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2192 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2194 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2195 =========================
2197 Command-Line Interface
2198 ----------------------
2200 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2202 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2203 folder and notmuch index.
2205 `notmuch count --batch` option
2207 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2208 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2210 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2212 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2213 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2214 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2217 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2219 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2220 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2221 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2222 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2223 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2226 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2228 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2229 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2231 Top level option to specify configuration file
2233 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2234 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2236 Bash command-line completion
2238 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2239 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2240 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2241 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2242 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2243 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2244 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2245 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2246 bash-completion package.
2248 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2253 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2255 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2256 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2257 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2258 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2259 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2260 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2261 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2262 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2264 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2266 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2267 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2268 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2270 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2272 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2273 previous thread in the search results.
2275 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2277 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2278 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2280 Faster search and show
2282 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2283 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2284 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2285 threads should show faster.
2289 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2290 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2291 in question was now removed from this release.
2296 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2297 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2302 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2304 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2305 ===========================
2310 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2312 Internal test framework changes
2313 -------------------------------
2315 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2316 being unimplemented.
2318 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2319 ===========================
2321 Internal test framework changes
2322 -------------------------------
2324 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2325 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2327 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2328 =========================
2333 Date range search support
2335 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2336 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2337 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2338 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2339 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2342 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2344 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2345 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2346 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2347 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2348 but may be removed in a future release.
2350 Command-Line Interface
2351 ----------------------
2353 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2355 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2356 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2358 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2360 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2361 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2362 officially deprecated.
2364 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2366 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2367 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2368 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2370 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2372 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2373 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2376 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2377 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2378 dump/restore format.
2380 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2382 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2383 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2384 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2386 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2388 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2389 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2390 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2392 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2394 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2395 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2396 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2397 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2402 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2404 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2405 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2406 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2407 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2409 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2411 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2412 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2413 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2414 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2415 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2416 the behavior of this, see
2417 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2418 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2420 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2421 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2422 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2424 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2426 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2427 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2430 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2432 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2433 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2434 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2435 simply displayed in place of the message.
2437 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2439 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2440 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2442 Improved text/calendar content handling
2444 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2445 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2446 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2447 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2449 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2451 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2452 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2453 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2454 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2456 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2458 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2459 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2460 for HTML email containing images.
2462 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2464 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2466 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2468 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2471 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2473 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2474 the point where it was.
2476 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2478 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2479 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2480 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2481 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2482 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2484 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2486 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2487 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2488 thread instead of the message id.
2490 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2491 -----------------------------
2493 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2494 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2495 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2496 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2497 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2498 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2499 further details and installation.
2504 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2506 Internal test framework changes
2507 -------------------------------
2509 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2511 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2512 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2513 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2514 can result in buggy behavior.
2516 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2517 =========================
2522 Maildir tag synchronization
2524 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2525 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2526 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2527 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2528 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2529 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2532 Command-Line Interface
2533 ----------------------
2535 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2536 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2537 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2538 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2539 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2545 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2547 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2549 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2550 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2551 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2553 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2555 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2556 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2557 span multiple lines.
2559 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2561 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2562 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2563 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2564 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2565 inside the result or message.
2567 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2569 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2570 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2572 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2573 user-specified formatting
2575 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2576 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2577 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2578 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2579 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2581 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2582 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2584 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2585 ===========================
2590 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2591 compilation error for this contrib package.
2593 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2594 ===========================
2599 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2601 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2602 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2603 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2604 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2606 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2607 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2610 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2611 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2612 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2613 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2616 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2618 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2621 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2622 =========================
2624 Command-Line Interface
2625 ----------------------
2629 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2630 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2631 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2632 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2634 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2635 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2636 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2637 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2641 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2642 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2644 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2645 tag in your query, for example:
2647 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2649 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2650 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2652 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2653 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2655 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2657 Raw show format changes
2659 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2660 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2661 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2662 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2663 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2664 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2665 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2666 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2668 Listing configuration items
2670 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2676 Changes to tagging interface
2678 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2679 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2680 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2681 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2682 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2683 for more information.
2685 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2686 may need to update in custom configurations.
2688 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2690 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2691 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2692 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2693 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2696 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2697 -----------------------------
2699 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2700 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2701 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2702 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2703 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2704 contrib/ from now on.
2709 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2710 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2712 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2713 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2715 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2716 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2717 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2719 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2720 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2722 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2723 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2724 returning the new database object or directory object.
2731 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2732 compatible with go 1.
2734 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2735 =========================
2737 Command-Line Interface
2738 ----------------------
2742 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2743 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2744 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2745 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2747 Mail store folder/file ignore
2749 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2750 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2751 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2753 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2754 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2756 Unified help and manual pages
2758 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2759 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2762 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2764 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2765 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2773 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2774 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2775 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2776 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2778 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2780 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2781 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2783 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2786 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2787 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2788 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2790 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2792 should be changed to:
2794 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2796 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2798 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2799 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2801 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2803 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2804 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2805 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2806 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2807 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2808 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2812 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2813 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2814 of Mailing List Archives.
2816 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2818 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2819 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2822 Show view archiving key binding changes
2824 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2825 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2826 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2827 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2828 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2831 Support text/calendar MIME type
2833 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2836 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2838 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2839 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2840 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2841 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2843 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2845 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2846 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2847 messages blue by default in the search view.
2851 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2852 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2859 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2862 Python bindings changes
2863 -----------------------
2865 Python 3.2 compatibility
2867 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2869 Added missing unicode conversions
2871 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2872 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2873 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2878 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2880 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2881 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2882 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2883 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2884 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2886 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2887 ===========================
2892 Fix error handling in python bindings
2894 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2895 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2896 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2897 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2899 Quote MML tags in replies
2901 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2902 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2903 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2904 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2905 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2906 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2907 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2908 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2910 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2911 =========================
2913 Command-Line Interface
2914 ----------------------
2918 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2919 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2920 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2921 importing new messages into the database.
2923 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2925 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2926 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2927 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2932 Automatic tag query optimization
2934 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2935 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2936 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2938 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2940 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2941 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2942 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2947 Reduction of memory leaks
2949 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2950 and fixed in this release.
2957 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2958 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2959 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2962 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2964 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2965 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2966 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2969 Improvements in saved search management
2971 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2972 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2973 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2975 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2977 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2978 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2979 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2981 New face for crypto parts headers
2983 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2984 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2985 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2988 Use space as default thousands separator
2990 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2991 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2992 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2994 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2995 buttonized id: links
2997 New function notmuch-show-advance
2999 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3000 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3001 be bound to SPC with:
3003 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3005 Various performance improvements
3010 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3011 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3014 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3015 ===========================
3020 Fix crash in python bindings
3022 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3023 for some, but not all users.
3025 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3026 ===========================
3031 Fix `--help` argument
3033 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3034 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3035 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3037 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3038 =========================
3040 New build and testing features
3041 ------------------------------
3043 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3044 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3045 prerequisites is improved.
3047 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3049 New command-line features
3050 -------------------------
3052 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3054 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3055 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3058 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3060 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3061 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3062 favour of using stdout.
3064 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3066 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3067 limit the number of results shown.
3069 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3071 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3072 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3075 New emacs UI features
3076 ---------------------
3078 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3080 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3081 starting with "tag:".
3083 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3085 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3086 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3088 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3090 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3092 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3094 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3095 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3100 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3102 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3104 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3105 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3106 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3107 requires a database rebuild:
3109 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3110 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3112 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3114 New collection of add-on tools
3115 ------------------------------
3117 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3118 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3119 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3122 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3124 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3125 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3126 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3128 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3129 ========================
3131 New, general features
3132 ---------------------
3134 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3136 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3137 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3138 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3139 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3140 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3147 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3148 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3150 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3154 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3155 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3156 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3159 Python bindings changes
3160 -----------------------
3162 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3164 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3165 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3166 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3167 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3168 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3169 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3171 Ruby bindings changes
3172 ---------------------
3174 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3175 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3176 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3177 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3182 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3184 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3185 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3187 Reply formatting cleanup
3188 ------------------------
3190 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3191 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3193 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3194 ========================
3196 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3198 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3199 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3200 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3201 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3204 Improved Build system portability
3206 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3207 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3208 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3210 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3212 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3214 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3216 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3217 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3218 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3220 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3221 ========================
3223 Vim interface improvements
3224 --------------------------
3226 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3228 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3229 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3230 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3231 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3232 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3234 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3236 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3237 * fix compose temp file name
3239 Python Bindings changes
3240 -----------------------
3242 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3244 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3245 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3247 Build-System improvements
3248 -------------------------
3250 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3252 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3255 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3256 ==========================
3261 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3263 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3264 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3266 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3267 =======================
3269 New, general features
3270 ---------------------
3272 Folder-based searching
3274 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3275 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3276 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3280 For example, one might use things such as:
3286 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3287 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3289 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3290 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3291 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3292 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3294 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3295 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3296 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3299 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3300 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3302 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3304 Support for PGP/MIME
3306 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3307 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3308 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3310 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3312 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3313 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3315 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3316 notmuch will receive these tags.
3318 New command-line features
3319 -------------------------
3321 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3323 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3324 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3326 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3328 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3329 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3330 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3332 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3334 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3335 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3336 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3337 which parts a signature part applies).
3339 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3341 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3342 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3343 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3344 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3345 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3348 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3350 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3351 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3352 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3353 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3354 by translating it internally to the new call.
3356 Performance improvements
3357 ------------------------
3359 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3361 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3362 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3363 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3365 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3366 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3368 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3370 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3371 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3372 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3374 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3375 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3376 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3377 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3379 Faster initial indexing
3381 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3382 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3383 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3385 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3387 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3388 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3389 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3390 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3392 New emacs-interface features
3393 ----------------------------
3395 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3397 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3398 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3399 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3400 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3401 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3402 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3404 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3406 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3407 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3408 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3409 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3411 User-selectable From address
3413 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3414 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3415 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3416 will prompt for the from address to use.
3418 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3419 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3420 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3422 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3423 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3424 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3427 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3429 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3430 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3432 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3434 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3436 ----- Original Message -----
3438 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3439 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3440 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3441 citations work much like conventional citations.
3443 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3445 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3446 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3447 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3448 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3449 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3451 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3452 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3454 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3456 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3457 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3458 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3460 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3462 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3463 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3464 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3465 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3466 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3468 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3470 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3473 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3475 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3477 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3479 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3482 Vim interface improvements
3483 --------------------------
3485 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3487 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3488 * Implementing archive in show view
3489 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3490 * Add delete commands
3493 Bindings improvements
3494 ---------------------
3496 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3498 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3499 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3501 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3503 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3507 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3508 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3509 `list(Messages)` works now
3510 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3512 These allow, for example:
3514 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3516 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3518 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3524 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3526 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3529 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3531 New build-system features
3532 -------------------------
3534 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3536 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3537 the configure script from some other directory:
3544 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3546 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3547 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3548 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3549 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3550 manual invocation of configure.
3552 New test-suite feature
3553 ----------------------
3555 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3557 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3558 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3559 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3560 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3561 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3564 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3566 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3567 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3568 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3569 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3570 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3571 are updated to take advantage of this.
3573 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3575 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3576 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3577 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3578 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3584 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3586 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3587 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3588 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3590 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3592 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3594 to:user@elsewhere.com
3596 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3598 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3600 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3602 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3603 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3604 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3607 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3608 from the Received headers in some cases
3610 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3611 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3613 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3615 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3617 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3619 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3620 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3621 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3623 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3624 -------------------------
3626 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3628 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3629 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3630 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3632 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3634 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3635 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3636 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3639 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3641 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3642 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3643 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3644 fixed to avoid this bug.
3646 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3648 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3649 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3651 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3652 ========================
3654 New, general features
3655 ---------------------
3657 Maildir-flag synchronization
3659 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3660 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3669 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3671 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3672 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3673 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3674 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3676 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3677 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3678 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3679 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3682 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3684 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3685 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3686 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3688 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3689 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3691 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3692 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3694 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3695 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3696 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3698 New library features
3699 --------------------
3701 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3703 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3704 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3705 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3706 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3708 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3709 message with the new function:
3711 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3713 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3714 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3715 over all available filenames for a given message.
3717 New command-line features
3718 -------------------------
3720 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3722 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3723 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3724 access to the mail store itself.
3726 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3727 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3728 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3729 name of a script containing:
3731 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3733 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3734 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3740 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3742 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3744 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3746 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3747 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3748 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3749 now produces nothing).
3751 Emacs interface improvements
3752 ----------------------------
3754 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3756 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3758 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3760 Display current thread subject in a header line
3762 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3764 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3766 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3767 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3768 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3769 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3770 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3771 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3772 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3774 Vim interface improvements
3775 --------------------------
3777 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3779 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3780 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3786 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3788 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3789 ========================
3791 New command-line features
3792 -------------------------
3794 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3796 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3797 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3798 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3800 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3801 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3802 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3803 scripts. For example:
3805 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3806 <operations-on> "$file"
3809 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3811 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3812 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3813 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3814 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3815 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3816 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3818 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3820 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3821 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3822 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3823 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3825 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3827 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3828 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3829 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3830 default rather than Bcc.
3832 New library features
3833 --------------------
3835 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3837 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3838 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3843 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3845 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3846 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3847 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3848 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3849 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3850 notmuch customize interface.
3852 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3854 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3855 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3856 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3857 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3859 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3861 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3862 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3863 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3864 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3866 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3868 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3869 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3870 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3871 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3872 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3873 notmuch customize interface.
3875 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3877 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3878 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3879 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3880 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3881 notmuch customize interface.
3883 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3885 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3886 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3887 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3888 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3891 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3893 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3894 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3895 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3898 New build-system features
3899 -------------------------
3901 Various portability fixes have been applied
3903 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3904 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3905 more portable than ever before.
3907 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3909 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3910 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3911 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3913 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3914 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3915 automatically run ldconfig.
3917 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3918 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3919 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3921 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3922 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3923 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3924 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3926 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3928 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3929 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3930 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3931 used in the resulting Makefile.
3933 New test-suite features
3934 -----------------------
3936 New modularization of test suite
3938 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3939 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3940 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3941 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3942 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3943 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3944 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3945 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3947 New testing of emacs interface
3949 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3950 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3951 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3952 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3953 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3954 database via the FCC setting.
3959 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3961 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3962 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3963 persistent error of the form:
3965 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3967 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3968 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3970 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3972 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3973 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3974 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3976 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3978 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3979 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3980 parsing the notmuch results).
3982 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3984 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3987 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3988 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3989 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3994 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3996 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3997 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3998 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3999 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4000 the emacs interface.
4002 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4004 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4005 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4006 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4008 Python-binding fixes
4009 --------------------
4011 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4013 Debian-specific fixes
4014 ---------------------
4016 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4018 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4019 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4020 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4023 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4024 ==========================
4029 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4031 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4032 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4033 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4034 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4036 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4038 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4039 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4040 want notmuch to crash.
4045 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4047 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4048 directory does not exist
4053 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4055 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4056 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4058 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4059 ========================
4061 New command-line features
4062 -------------------------
4064 User-configurable tags for new messages
4066 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4067 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4068 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4069 to specify this value.
4071 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4073 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4074 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4075 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4077 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4079 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4080 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4082 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4084 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4085 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4086 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4087 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4088 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4091 Indication of author names that match a search
4093 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4094 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4095 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4096 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4097 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4098 messages in the thread are listed first.
4100 New: Python bindings
4101 --------------------
4103 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4104 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4105 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4106 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4108 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4109 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4110 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4113 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4114 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4115 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4117 Emacs interface improvements
4118 ----------------------------
4120 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4122 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4123 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4124 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4125 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4126 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4127 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4128 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4129 but without any of the disadvantages).
4131 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4132 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4133 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4136 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4137 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4138 instead running something like:
4140 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4142 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4143 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4144 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4147 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4149 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4150 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4151 tweaked by the user.
4153 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4154 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4155 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4158 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4159 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4160 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4163 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4165 This support currently relies on an external program,
4166 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4167 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4168 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4169 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4170 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4173 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4174 notmuch) is available via:
4176 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4178 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4179 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4180 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4182 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4184 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4185 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4186 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4187 making this automatic in a future release.
4189 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4191 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4192 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4193 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4194 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4195 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4196 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4199 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4201 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4202 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4203 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4205 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4207 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4208 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4209 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4211 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4212 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4213 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4214 other representation.
4216 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4217 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4220 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4222 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4223 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4224 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4226 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4227 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4228 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4230 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4232 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4233 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4234 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4235 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4236 to display the search result.
4238 More flexible handling of header visibility
4240 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4241 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4242 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4243 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4244 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4245 with the 'h' keybinding.
4247 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4248 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4249 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4251 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4253 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4255 Customizable formatting of search results
4257 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4258 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4259 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4261 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4263 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4265 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4270 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4272 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4273 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4274 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4275 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4281 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4283 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4284 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4286 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4288 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4289 accept are now all accepted.
4294 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4296 Better display of output from failed tests
4298 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4299 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4301 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4302 ========================
4304 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4305 detailed release notes this time!
4307 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4308 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4310 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4311 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4312 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4313 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4320 Better guessing of From: header
4322 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4323 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4324 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4325 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4326 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4329 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4331 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4332 guaranteed to match all messages.
4334 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4336 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4337 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4338 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4339 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4340 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4343 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4346 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4347 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4348 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4349 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4354 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4356 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4357 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4358 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4359 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4361 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4363 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4365 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4366 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4367 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4369 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4371 Previously, the user might see:
4373 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4377 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4379 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4380 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4381 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4382 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4384 Emacs client features
4385 ---------------------
4387 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4389 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4390 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4391 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4392 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4393 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4395 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4398 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4399 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4400 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4401 search with the '*' binding.
4403 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4405 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4406 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4409 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4411 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4412 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4413 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4415 Build-system features
4416 ---------------------
4418 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4420 Add support to configure for many standard options
4422 We include actual support for:
4424 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4426 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4428 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4429 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4431 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4432 separate "make install-emacs"
4434 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4436 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4437 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4438 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4440 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4443 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4444 ========================
4446 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4448 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4449 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4451 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4452 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4453 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4454 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4455 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4456 tags from messages in a thread.
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