1 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
2 ===========================
7 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
9 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
10 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
11 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
14 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
15 ===========================
17 Command Line Interface
18 ----------------------
20 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
25 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
27 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
28 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
29 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
31 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
32 ===========================
37 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
38 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
40 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
41 ===========================
43 Command Line Interface
44 ----------------------
46 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
48 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
49 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
50 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
55 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
57 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
58 ===========================
60 Command Line Interface
61 ----------------------
63 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
68 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
70 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
71 ===========================
76 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
78 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
79 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
80 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
82 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
84 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
86 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
87 ===========================
92 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
94 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
99 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
101 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
102 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
103 the original colours.
105 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
106 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
108 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
110 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
111 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
112 bug, and hence the test.
114 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
115 =========================
117 General (Xapian 1.4+)
118 ---------------------
120 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
122 Support for single argument date: queries
124 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
126 Support for blocking opens
128 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
129 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
131 Support for named queries
133 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
134 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
135 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
142 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
143 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
144 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
145 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
147 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
149 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
154 Support for compile time options
156 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
157 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
160 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
162 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
163 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
164 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
165 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
166 scripts to ignore it.
171 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
173 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
174 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
175 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
177 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
178 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
179 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
180 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
181 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
182 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
183 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
185 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
186 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
189 Make internal address completion customizable
191 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
192 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
193 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
194 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
197 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
199 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
200 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
201 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
202 completion for the current buffer.
204 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
205 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
206 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
210 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
211 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
212 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
213 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
214 will be added instead.
216 Face customization is easier
218 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
219 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
220 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
221 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
223 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
228 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
233 Go bindings moved to contrib
235 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
237 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
239 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
240 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
242 The same issue occured with sort modes.
244 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
245 ===========================
252 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
253 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
255 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
257 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
259 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
260 ===========================
265 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
267 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
272 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
277 Use `env` to locate perl.
282 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
284 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
286 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
288 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
290 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
291 =========================
298 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
299 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
301 Limited support for S/MIME messages
303 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
304 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
305 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
310 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
311 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
312 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
314 Command Line Interface
315 ----------------------
317 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
319 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
324 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
329 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
331 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
332 parts are now included in replies.
334 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
335 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
336 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
337 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
339 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
341 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
343 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
345 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
346 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
347 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
348 forwards only the current message.
350 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
352 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
353 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
354 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
355 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
356 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
357 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
358 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
359 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
362 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
363 longer generate empty buffers
365 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
366 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
367 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
368 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
369 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
371 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
373 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
376 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
378 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
381 Address completion improvements
383 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
384 you previously configured one, customize the variable
385 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
386 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
387 interactive address completion.
389 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
391 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
392 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
393 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
398 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
399 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
400 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
406 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
407 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
408 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
409 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
410 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
411 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
413 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
414 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
415 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
416 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
417 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
418 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
420 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
421 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
423 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
424 =========================
429 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
432 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
434 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
435 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
436 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
438 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
439 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
441 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
442 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
443 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
445 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
447 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
448 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
449 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
450 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
451 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
452 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
457 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
458 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
461 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
464 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
466 Command Line Interface
467 ----------------------
469 Database revision tracking
471 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
472 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
473 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
474 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
476 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
478 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
479 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
480 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
481 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
482 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
483 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
484 manual page for further information.
489 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
491 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
492 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
494 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
496 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
497 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
498 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
500 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
502 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
504 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
505 customization as well.
507 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
509 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
511 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
513 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
515 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
516 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
517 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
518 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
520 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
522 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
523 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
524 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
525 this variable to 10000.
530 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
531 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
533 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
535 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
536 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
537 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
538 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
539 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
540 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
541 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
542 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
543 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
546 Database revision tracking
548 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
549 query parser and the new function
550 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
552 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
556 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
557 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
558 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
559 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
564 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
566 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
567 ===========================
572 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
574 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
575 ===========================
580 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
582 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
583 =========================
585 Command-Line Interface
586 ----------------------
588 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
590 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
591 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
592 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
594 Path to gpg is now configurable
596 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
597 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
602 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
604 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
609 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
614 Support messages without Message-IDs.
619 Undeprecate single message mboxes
621 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
622 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
624 New error logging facility
626 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
627 output formerly printed to stderr.
629 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
631 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
633 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
635 Fix for rounding of seconds
640 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
642 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
643 docmumentation has been removed.
645 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
647 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
648 some material from the relicensed wiki.
653 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
654 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
655 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
660 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
661 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
662 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
663 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
664 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
665 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
668 git checkout config origin/config
670 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
672 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
673 =========================
678 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
679 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
680 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
681 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
682 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
683 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
684 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
686 Command-Line Interface
687 ----------------------
689 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
691 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
692 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
693 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
694 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
695 script callers should still check the return value.
697 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
699 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
700 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
701 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
702 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
703 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
704 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
705 and returning success even if indexing fails).
707 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
709 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
710 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
711 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
713 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
715 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
716 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
717 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
718 currently unmaintained.
720 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
722 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
723 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
724 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
725 have at least `N` files associated with them.
727 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
729 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
730 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
731 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
732 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
733 count of duplicate addresses.
738 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
740 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
741 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
742 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
745 Improved handling of the unread tag
747 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
748 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
749 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
750 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
751 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
752 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
753 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
755 Expanded default saved search settings
757 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
758 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
760 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
762 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
763 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
764 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
766 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
768 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
769 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
770 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
771 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
772 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
773 the variable for details.
778 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
780 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
781 Representing these independently of the database version number will
782 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
783 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
785 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
787 Previously, library users were required to call
788 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
789 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
790 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
791 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
792 too out of date for that API.
794 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
796 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
797 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
798 atomic section will be aborted.
800 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
801 `notmuch_database_destroy`
803 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
805 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
806 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
807 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
808 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
809 messages into the same thread.
814 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
815 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
816 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
817 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
818 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
819 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
824 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
825 from the config file. Use something like:
829 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
830 "footer": "</body></html>",
839 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
844 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
845 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
846 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
848 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
849 ===========================
854 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
856 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
858 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
860 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
861 structure for signatures changed slightly.
863 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
865 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
868 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
869 ===========================
871 This is a bug fix and portability release.
876 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
878 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
880 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
882 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
884 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
890 Use --quick when starting emacs
892 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
894 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
896 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
898 Command-Line Interface
899 ----------------------
901 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
902 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
907 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
909 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
910 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
912 Fix for phrase indexing
914 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
915 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
916 will affect only newly indexed messages.
921 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
923 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
924 unintentionally removed.
926 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
927 =========================
932 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
933 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
934 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
935 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
936 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
937 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
938 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
939 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
940 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
946 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
948 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
949 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
950 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
951 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
952 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
953 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
954 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
955 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
957 There is a new `path:` search prefix
959 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
960 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
961 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
962 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
965 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
967 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
968 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
969 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
970 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
971 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
972 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
973 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
978 Notmuch database upgrade
980 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
981 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
982 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
983 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
984 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
985 released version of Notmuch before now.
987 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
989 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
990 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
991 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
992 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
994 Message header parsing changes
996 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
997 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
998 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
999 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1000 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1001 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1003 Command-Line Interface
1004 ----------------------
1006 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1008 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1010 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1012 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1014 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1016 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1017 user does not want it.
1019 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1021 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1022 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1023 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1024 support formatted output.
1026 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1028 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1029 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1030 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1038 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1039 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1040 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1041 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1042 `~/.emacs` with these.
1044 Changed format for saved searches
1046 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1047 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1048 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1049 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1052 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1053 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1054 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1055 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1057 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1058 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1059 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1061 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1062 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1063 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1064 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1065 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1067 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1069 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1070 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1071 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1073 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1075 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1076 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1077 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1078 message had been unread).
1080 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1081 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1082 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1083 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1085 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1086 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1087 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1089 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1090 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1091 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1092 to tags already present.
1096 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1097 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1098 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1099 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1100 these differ from each other.
1101 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1103 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1105 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1106 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1107 for these Emacs versions.
1109 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1111 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1112 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1114 Bug fixes for sender identities
1116 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1117 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1118 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1120 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1122 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1123 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1124 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1125 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1127 Reply pushes mark before signature
1129 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1130 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1131 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1133 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1135 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1136 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1142 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1143 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1145 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1146 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1147 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1148 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1150 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1151 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1152 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1153 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1154 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1156 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1158 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1159 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1161 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1162 =========================
1164 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1165 ---------------------------------------
1167 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1168 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1169 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1170 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1171 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1172 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1173 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1177 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1178 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1180 Command-Line Interface
1181 ----------------------
1183 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1185 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1186 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1187 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1188 print for each message.
1190 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1191 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1192 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1193 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1195 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1197 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1198 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1199 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1201 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1203 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1204 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1205 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1206 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1208 `notmuch compact` command
1210 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1211 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1212 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1213 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1214 move the compacted database into place.
1219 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1221 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1222 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1223 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1224 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1225 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1226 and multiple threads.
1228 Using `notmuch-tree`
1230 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1232 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1233 search, show and tree mode itself)
1235 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1238 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1239 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1241 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1243 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1244 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1245 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1246 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1247 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1248 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1249 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1251 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1253 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1254 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1255 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1256 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1257 thread when the search was performed.
1259 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1261 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1262 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1263 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1265 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1267 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1268 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1271 Built-in help improvements
1273 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1274 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1275 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1277 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1279 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1280 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1281 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1283 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1285 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1286 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1288 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1290 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1291 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1292 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1293 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1295 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1297 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1298 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1299 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1300 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1302 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1304 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1305 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1306 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1308 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1310 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1311 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1312 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1314 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1316 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1317 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1318 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1319 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1320 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1322 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1324 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1325 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1326 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1327 the body part of the message.
1332 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1333 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1334 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1336 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1337 =========================
1339 Command-Line Interface
1340 ----------------------
1342 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1344 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1345 folder and notmuch index.
1347 `notmuch count --batch` option
1349 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1350 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1352 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1354 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1355 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1356 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1359 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1361 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1362 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1363 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1364 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1365 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1368 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1370 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1371 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1373 Top level option to specify configuration file
1375 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1376 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1378 Bash command-line completion
1380 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1381 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1382 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1383 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1384 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1385 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1386 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1387 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1388 bash-completion package.
1390 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1395 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1397 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1398 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1399 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1400 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1401 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1402 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1403 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1404 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1406 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1408 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1409 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1410 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1412 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1414 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1415 previous thread in the search results.
1417 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1419 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1420 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1422 Faster search and show
1424 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1425 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1426 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1427 threads should show faster.
1431 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1432 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1433 in question was now removed from this release.
1438 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1439 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1444 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1446 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1447 ===========================
1452 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1454 Internal test framework changes
1455 -------------------------------
1457 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1458 being unimplemented.
1460 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1461 ===========================
1463 Internal test framework changes
1464 -------------------------------
1466 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1467 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1469 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1470 =========================
1475 Date range search support
1477 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1478 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1479 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1480 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1481 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1484 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1486 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1487 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1488 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1489 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1490 but may be removed in a future release.
1492 Command-Line Interface
1493 ----------------------
1495 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1497 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1498 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1500 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1502 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1503 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1504 officially deprecated.
1506 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1508 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1509 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1510 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1512 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1514 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1515 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1518 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1519 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1520 dump/restore format.
1522 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1524 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1525 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1526 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1528 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1530 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1531 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1532 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1534 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1536 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1537 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1538 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1539 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1544 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1546 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1547 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1548 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1549 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1551 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1553 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1554 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1555 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1556 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1557 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1558 the behavior of this, see
1559 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1560 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1562 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1563 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1564 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1566 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1568 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1569 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1572 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1574 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1575 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1576 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1577 simply displayed in place of the message.
1579 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1581 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1582 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1584 Improved text/calendar content handling
1586 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1587 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1588 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1589 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1591 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1593 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1594 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1595 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1596 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1598 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1600 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1601 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1602 for HTML email containing images.
1604 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1606 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1608 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1610 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1613 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1615 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1616 the point where it was.
1618 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1620 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1621 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1622 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1623 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1624 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1626 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1628 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1629 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1630 thread instead of the message id.
1632 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1633 -----------------------------
1635 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1636 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1637 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1638 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1639 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1640 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1641 further details and installation.
1646 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1648 Internal test framework changes
1649 -------------------------------
1651 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1653 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1654 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1655 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1656 can result in buggy behavior.
1658 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1659 =========================
1664 Maildir tag synchronization
1666 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1667 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1668 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1669 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1670 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1671 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1674 Command-Line Interface
1675 ----------------------
1677 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1678 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1679 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1680 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1681 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1687 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1689 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1691 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1692 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1693 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1695 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1697 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1698 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1699 span multiple lines.
1701 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1703 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1704 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1705 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1706 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1707 inside the result or message.
1709 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1711 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1712 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1714 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1715 user-specified formatting
1717 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1718 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1719 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1720 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1721 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1723 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1724 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1726 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1727 ===========================
1732 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1733 compilation error for this contrib package.
1735 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1736 ===========================
1741 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1743 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1744 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1745 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1746 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1748 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1749 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1752 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1753 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1754 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1755 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1758 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1760 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1763 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1764 =========================
1766 Command-Line Interface
1767 ----------------------
1771 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1772 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1773 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1774 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1776 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1777 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1778 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1779 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1783 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1784 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1786 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1787 tag in your query, for example:
1789 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1791 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1792 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1794 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1795 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1797 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1799 Raw show format changes
1801 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1802 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1803 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1804 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1805 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1806 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1807 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1808 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1810 Listing configuration items
1812 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1818 Changes to tagging interface
1820 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1821 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1822 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1823 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1824 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1825 for more information.
1827 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1828 may need to update in custom configurations.
1830 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1832 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1833 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1834 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1835 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1838 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1839 -----------------------------
1841 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1842 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1843 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1844 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1845 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1846 contrib/ from now on.
1851 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1852 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1854 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1855 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1857 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1858 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1859 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1861 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1862 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1864 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1865 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1866 returning the new database object or directory object.
1873 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1874 compatible with go 1.
1876 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1877 =========================
1879 Command-Line Interface
1880 ----------------------
1884 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1885 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1886 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1887 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1889 Mail store folder/file ignore
1891 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1892 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1893 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1895 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1896 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1898 Unified help and manual pages
1900 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1901 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1904 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1906 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1907 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1915 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1916 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1917 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1918 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1920 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1922 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1923 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1925 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1928 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1929 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1930 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1932 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1934 should be changed to:
1936 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1938 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1940 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1941 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1943 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1945 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1946 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1947 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1948 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1949 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1950 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1954 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1955 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1956 of Mailing List Archives.
1958 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1960 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1961 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1964 Show view archiving key binding changes
1966 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1967 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1968 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1969 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1970 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1973 Support text/calendar MIME type
1975 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1978 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1980 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1981 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1982 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1983 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1985 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1987 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1988 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1989 messages blue by default in the search view.
1993 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1994 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2001 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2004 Python bindings changes
2005 -----------------------
2007 Python 3.2 compatibility
2009 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2011 Added missing unicode conversions
2013 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2014 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2015 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2020 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2022 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2023 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2024 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2025 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2026 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2028 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2029 ===========================
2034 Fix error handling in python bindings
2036 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2037 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2038 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2039 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2041 Quote MML tags in replies
2043 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2044 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2045 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2046 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2047 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2048 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2049 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2050 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2052 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2053 =========================
2055 Command-Line Interface
2056 ----------------------
2060 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2061 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2062 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2063 importing new messages into the database.
2065 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2067 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2068 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2069 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2074 Automatic tag query optimization
2076 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2077 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2078 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2080 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2082 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2083 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2084 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2089 Reduction of memory leaks
2091 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2092 and fixed in this release.
2099 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2100 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2101 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2104 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2106 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2107 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2108 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2111 Improvements in saved search management
2113 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2114 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2115 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2117 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2119 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2120 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2121 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2123 New face for crypto parts headers
2125 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2126 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2127 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2130 Use space as default thousands separator
2132 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2133 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2134 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2136 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2137 buttonized id: links
2139 New function notmuch-show-advance
2141 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2142 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2143 be bound to SPC with:
2145 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2147 Various performance improvements
2152 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2153 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2156 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2157 ===========================
2162 Fix crash in python bindings
2164 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2165 for some, but not all users.
2167 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2168 ===========================
2173 Fix `--help` argument
2175 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2176 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2177 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2179 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2180 =========================
2182 New build and testing features
2183 ------------------------------
2185 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2186 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2187 prerequisites is improved.
2189 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2191 New command-line features
2192 -------------------------
2194 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2196 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2197 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2200 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2202 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2203 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2204 favour of using stdout.
2206 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2208 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2209 limit the number of results shown.
2211 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2213 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2214 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2217 New emacs UI features
2218 ---------------------
2220 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2222 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2223 starting with "tag:".
2225 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2227 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2228 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2230 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2232 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2234 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2236 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2237 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2242 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2244 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2246 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2247 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2248 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2249 requires a database rebuild:
2251 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2252 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2254 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2256 New collection of add-on tools
2257 ------------------------------
2259 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2260 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2261 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2264 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2266 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2267 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2268 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2270 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2271 ========================
2273 New, general features
2274 ---------------------
2276 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2278 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2279 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2280 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2281 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2282 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2289 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2290 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2292 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2296 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2297 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2298 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2301 Python bindings changes
2302 -----------------------
2304 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2306 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2307 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2308 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2309 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2310 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2311 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2313 Ruby bindings changes
2314 ---------------------
2316 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2317 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2318 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2319 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2324 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2326 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2327 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2329 Reply formatting cleanup
2330 ------------------------
2332 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2333 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2335 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2336 ========================
2338 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2340 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2341 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2342 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2343 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2346 Improved Build system portability
2348 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2349 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2350 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2352 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2354 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2356 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2358 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2359 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2360 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2362 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2363 ========================
2365 Vim interface improvements
2366 --------------------------
2368 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2370 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2371 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2372 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2373 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2374 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2376 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2378 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2379 * fix compose temp file name
2381 Python Bindings changes
2382 -----------------------
2384 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2386 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2387 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2389 Build-System improvements
2390 -------------------------
2392 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2394 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2397 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2398 ==========================
2403 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2405 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2406 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2408 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2409 =======================
2411 New, general features
2412 ---------------------
2414 Folder-based searching
2416 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2417 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2418 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2422 For example, one might use things such as:
2428 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2429 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2431 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2432 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2433 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2434 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2436 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2437 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2438 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2441 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2442 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2444 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2446 Support for PGP/MIME
2448 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2449 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2450 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2452 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2454 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2455 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2457 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2458 notmuch will receive these tags.
2460 New command-line features
2461 -------------------------
2463 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2465 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2466 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2468 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2470 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2471 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2472 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2474 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2476 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2477 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2478 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2479 which parts a signature part applies).
2481 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2483 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2484 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2485 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2486 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2487 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2490 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2492 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2493 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2494 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2495 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2496 by translating it internally to the new call.
2498 Performance improvements
2499 ------------------------
2501 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2503 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2504 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2505 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2507 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2508 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2510 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2512 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2513 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2514 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2516 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2517 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2518 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2519 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2521 Faster initial indexing
2523 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2524 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2525 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2527 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2529 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2530 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2531 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2532 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2534 New emacs-interface features
2535 ----------------------------
2537 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2539 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2540 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2541 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2542 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2543 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2544 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2546 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2548 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2549 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2550 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2551 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2553 User-selectable From address
2555 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2556 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2557 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2558 will prompt for the from address to use.
2560 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2561 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2562 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2564 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2565 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2566 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2569 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2571 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2572 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2574 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2576 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2578 ----- Original Message -----
2580 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2581 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2582 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2583 citations work much like conventional citations.
2585 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2587 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2588 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2589 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2590 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2591 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2593 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2594 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2596 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2598 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2599 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2600 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2602 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2604 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2605 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2606 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2607 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2608 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2610 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2612 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2615 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2617 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2619 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2621 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2624 Vim interface improvements
2625 --------------------------
2627 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2629 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2630 * Implementing archive in show view
2631 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2632 * Add delete commands
2635 Bindings improvements
2636 ---------------------
2638 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2640 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2641 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2643 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2645 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2649 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2650 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2651 `list(Messages)` works now
2652 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2654 These allow, for example:
2656 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2658 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2660 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2666 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2668 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2671 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2673 New build-system features
2674 -------------------------
2676 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2678 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2679 the configure script from some other directory:
2686 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2688 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2689 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2690 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2691 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2692 manual invocation of configure.
2694 New test-suite feature
2695 ----------------------
2697 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2699 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2700 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2701 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2702 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2703 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2706 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2708 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2709 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2710 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2711 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2712 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2713 are updated to take advantage of this.
2715 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2717 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2718 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2719 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2720 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2726 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2728 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2729 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2730 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2732 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2734 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2736 to:user@elsewhere.com
2738 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2740 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2742 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2744 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2745 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2746 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2749 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2750 from the Received headers in some cases
2752 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2753 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2755 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2757 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2759 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2761 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2762 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2763 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2765 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2766 -------------------------
2768 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2770 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2771 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2772 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2774 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2776 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2777 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2778 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2781 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2783 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2784 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2785 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2786 fixed to avoid this bug.
2788 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2790 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2791 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2793 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2794 ========================
2796 New, general features
2797 ---------------------
2799 Maildir-flag synchronization
2801 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2802 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2811 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2813 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2814 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2815 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2816 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2818 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2819 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2820 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2821 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2824 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2826 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2827 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2828 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2830 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2831 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2833 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2834 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2836 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2837 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2838 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2840 New library features
2841 --------------------
2843 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2845 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2846 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2847 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2848 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2850 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2851 message with the new function:
2853 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2855 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2856 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2857 over all available filenames for a given message.
2859 New command-line features
2860 -------------------------
2862 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2864 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2865 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2866 access to the mail store itself.
2868 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2869 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2870 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2871 name of a script containing:
2873 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2875 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2876 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2882 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2884 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2886 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2888 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2889 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2890 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2891 now produces nothing).
2893 Emacs interface improvements
2894 ----------------------------
2896 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2898 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2900 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2902 Display current thread subject in a header line
2904 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2906 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2908 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2909 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2910 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2911 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2912 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2913 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2914 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2916 Vim interface improvements
2917 --------------------------
2919 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2921 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2922 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2928 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2930 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2931 ========================
2933 New command-line features
2934 -------------------------
2936 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2938 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2939 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2940 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2942 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2943 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2944 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2945 scripts. For example:
2947 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2948 <operations-on> "$file"
2951 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2953 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2954 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2955 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2956 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2957 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2958 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2960 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2962 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2963 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2964 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2965 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2967 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2969 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2970 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2971 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2972 default rather than Bcc.
2974 New library features
2975 --------------------
2977 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2979 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2980 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2985 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2987 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2988 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2989 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2990 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2991 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2992 notmuch customize interface.
2994 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2996 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2997 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2998 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2999 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3001 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3003 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3004 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3005 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3006 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3008 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3010 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3011 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3012 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3013 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3014 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3015 notmuch customize interface.
3017 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3019 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3020 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3021 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3022 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3023 notmuch customize interface.
3025 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3027 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3028 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3029 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3030 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3033 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3035 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3036 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3037 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3040 New build-system features
3041 -------------------------
3043 Various portability fixes have been applied
3045 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3046 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3047 more portable than ever before.
3049 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3051 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3052 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3053 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3055 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3056 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3057 automatically run ldconfig.
3059 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3060 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3061 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3063 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3064 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3065 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3066 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3068 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3070 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3071 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3072 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3073 used in the resulting Makefile.
3075 New test-suite features
3076 -----------------------
3078 New modularization of test suite
3080 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3081 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3082 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3083 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3084 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3085 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3086 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3087 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3089 New testing of emacs interface
3091 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3092 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3093 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3094 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3095 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3096 database via the FCC setting.
3101 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3103 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3104 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3105 persistent error of the form:
3107 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3109 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3110 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3112 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3114 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3115 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3116 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3118 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3120 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3121 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3122 parsing the notmuch results).
3124 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3126 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3129 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3130 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3131 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3136 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3138 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3139 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3140 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3141 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3142 the emacs interface.
3144 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3146 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3147 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3148 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3150 Python-binding fixes
3151 --------------------
3153 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3155 Debian-specific fixes
3156 ---------------------
3158 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3160 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3161 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3162 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3165 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3166 ==========================
3171 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3173 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3174 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3175 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3176 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3178 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3180 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3181 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3182 want notmuch to crash.
3187 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3189 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3190 directory does not exist
3195 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3197 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3198 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3200 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3201 ========================
3203 New command-line features
3204 -------------------------
3206 User-configurable tags for new messages
3208 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3209 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3210 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3211 to specify this value.
3213 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3215 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3216 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3217 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3219 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3221 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3222 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3224 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3226 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3227 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3228 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3229 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3230 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3233 Indication of author names that match a search
3235 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3236 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3237 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3238 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3239 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3240 messages in the thread are listed first.
3242 New: Python bindings
3243 --------------------
3245 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3246 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3247 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3248 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3250 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3251 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3252 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3255 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3256 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3257 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3259 Emacs interface improvements
3260 ----------------------------
3262 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3264 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3265 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3266 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3267 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3268 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3269 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3270 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3271 but without any of the disadvantages).
3273 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3274 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3275 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3278 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3279 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3280 instead running something like:
3282 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3284 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3285 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3286 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3289 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3291 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3292 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3293 tweaked by the user.
3295 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3296 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3297 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3300 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3301 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3302 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3305 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3307 This support currently relies on an external program,
3308 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3309 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3310 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3311 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3312 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3315 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3316 notmuch) is available via:
3318 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3320 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3321 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3322 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3324 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3326 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3327 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3328 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3329 making this automatic in a future release.
3331 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3333 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3334 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3335 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3336 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3337 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3338 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3341 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3343 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3344 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3345 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3347 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3349 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3350 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3351 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3353 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3354 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3355 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3356 other representation.
3358 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3359 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3362 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3364 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3365 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3366 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3368 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3369 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3370 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3372 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3374 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3375 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3376 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3377 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3378 to display the search result.
3380 More flexible handling of header visibility
3382 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3383 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3384 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3385 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3386 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3387 with the 'h' keybinding.
3389 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3390 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3391 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3393 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3395 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3397 Customizable formatting of search results
3399 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3400 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3401 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3403 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3405 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3407 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3412 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3414 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3415 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3416 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3417 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3423 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3425 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3426 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3428 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3430 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3431 accept are now all accepted.
3436 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3438 Better display of output from failed tests
3440 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3441 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3443 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3444 ========================
3446 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3447 detailed release notes this time!
3449 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3450 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3452 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3453 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3454 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3455 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3462 Better guessing of From: header
3464 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3465 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3466 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3467 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3468 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3471 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3473 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3474 guaranteed to match all messages.
3476 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3478 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3479 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3480 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3481 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3482 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3485 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3488 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3489 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3490 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3491 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3496 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3498 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3499 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3500 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3501 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3503 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3505 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3507 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3508 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3509 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3511 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3513 Previously, the user might see:
3515 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3519 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3521 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3522 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3523 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3524 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3526 Emacs client features
3527 ---------------------
3529 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3531 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3532 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3533 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3534 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3535 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3537 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3540 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3541 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3542 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3543 search with the '*' binding.
3545 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3547 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3548 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3551 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3553 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3554 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3555 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3557 Build-system features
3558 ---------------------
3560 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3562 Add support to configure for many standard options
3564 We include actual support for:
3566 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3568 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3570 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3571 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3573 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3574 separate "make install-emacs"
3576 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3578 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3579 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3580 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3582 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3585 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3586 ========================
3588 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3590 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3591 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3593 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3594 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3595 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3596 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3597 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3598 tags from messages in a thread.
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