1 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
2 ===========================
7 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
9 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
14 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
16 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
17 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
20 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
21 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
23 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
25 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
26 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
27 bug, and hence the test.
29 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
30 =========================
35 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
37 Support for single argument date: queries
39 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
41 Support for blocking opens
43 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
44 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
46 Support for named queries
48 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
49 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
50 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
57 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
58 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
59 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
60 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
62 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
64 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
69 Support for compile time options
71 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
72 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
75 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
77 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
78 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
79 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
80 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
86 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
88 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
89 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
90 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
92 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
93 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
94 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
95 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
96 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
97 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
98 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
100 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
101 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
104 Make internal address completion customizable
106 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
107 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
108 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
109 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
112 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
114 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
115 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
116 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
117 completion for the current buffer.
119 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
120 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
121 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
125 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
126 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
127 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
128 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
129 will be added instead.
131 Face customization is easier
133 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
134 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
135 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
136 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
138 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
143 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
148 Go bindings moved to contrib
150 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
152 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
154 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
155 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
157 The same issue occured with sort modes.
159 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
160 ===========================
167 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
168 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
170 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
172 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
174 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
175 ===========================
180 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
182 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
187 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
192 Use `env` to locate perl.
197 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
199 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
201 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
203 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
205 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
206 =========================
213 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
214 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
216 Limited support for S/MIME messages
218 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
219 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
220 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
225 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
226 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
227 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
229 Command Line Interface
230 ----------------------
232 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
234 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
239 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
244 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
246 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
247 parts are now included in replies.
249 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
250 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
251 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
252 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
254 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
256 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
258 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
260 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
261 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
262 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
263 forwards only the current message.
265 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
267 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
268 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
269 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
270 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
271 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
272 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
273 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
274 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
277 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
278 longer generate empty buffers
280 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
281 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
282 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
283 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
284 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
286 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
288 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
291 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
293 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
296 Address completion improvements
298 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
299 you previously configured one, customize the variable
300 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
301 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
302 interactive address completion.
304 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
306 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
307 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
308 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
313 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
314 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
315 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
321 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
322 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
323 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
324 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
325 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
326 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
328 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
329 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
330 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
331 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
332 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
333 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
335 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
336 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
338 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
339 =========================
344 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
347 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
349 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
350 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
351 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
353 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
354 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
356 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
357 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
358 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
360 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
362 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
363 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
364 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
365 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
366 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
367 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
372 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
373 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
376 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
379 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
381 Command Line Interface
382 ----------------------
384 Database revision tracking
386 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
387 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
388 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
389 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
391 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
393 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
394 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
395 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
396 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
397 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
398 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
399 manual page for further information.
404 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
406 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
407 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
409 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
411 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
412 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
413 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
415 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
417 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
419 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
420 customization as well.
422 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
424 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
426 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
428 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
430 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
431 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
432 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
433 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
435 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
437 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
438 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
439 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
440 this variable to 10000.
445 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
446 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
448 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
450 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
451 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
452 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
453 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
454 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
455 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
456 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
457 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
458 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
461 Database revision tracking
463 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
464 query parser and the new function
465 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
467 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
471 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
472 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
473 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
474 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
479 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
481 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
482 ===========================
487 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
489 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
490 ===========================
495 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
497 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
498 =========================
500 Command-Line Interface
501 ----------------------
503 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
505 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
506 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
507 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
509 Path to gpg is now configurable
511 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
512 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
517 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
519 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
524 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
529 Support messages without Message-IDs.
534 Undeprecate single message mboxes
536 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
537 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
539 New error logging facility
541 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
542 output formerly printed to stderr.
544 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
546 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
548 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
550 Fix for rounding of seconds
555 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
557 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
558 docmumentation has been removed.
560 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
562 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
563 some material from the relicensed wiki.
568 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
569 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
570 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
575 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
576 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
577 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
578 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
579 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
580 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
583 git checkout config origin/config
585 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
587 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
588 =========================
593 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
594 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
595 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
596 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
597 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
598 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
599 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
601 Command-Line Interface
602 ----------------------
604 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
606 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
607 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
608 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
609 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
610 script callers should still check the return value.
612 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
614 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
615 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
616 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
617 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
618 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
619 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
620 and returning success even if indexing fails).
622 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
624 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
625 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
626 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
628 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
630 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
631 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
632 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
633 currently unmaintained.
635 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
637 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
638 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
639 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
640 have at least `N` files associated with them.
642 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
644 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
645 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
646 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
647 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
648 count of duplicate addresses.
653 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
655 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
656 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
657 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
660 Improved handling of the unread tag
662 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
663 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
664 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
665 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
666 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
667 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
668 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
670 Expanded default saved search settings
672 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
673 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
675 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
677 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
678 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
679 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
681 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
683 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
684 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
685 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
686 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
687 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
688 the variable for details.
693 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
695 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
696 Representing these independently of the database version number will
697 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
698 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
700 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
702 Previously, library users were required to call
703 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
704 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
705 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
706 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
707 too out of date for that API.
709 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
711 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
712 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
713 atomic section will be aborted.
715 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
716 `notmuch_database_destroy`
718 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
720 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
721 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
722 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
723 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
724 messages into the same thread.
729 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
730 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
731 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
732 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
733 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
734 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
739 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
740 from the config file. Use something like:
744 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
745 "footer": "</body></html>",
754 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
759 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
760 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
761 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
763 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
764 ===========================
769 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
771 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
773 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
775 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
776 structure for signatures changed slightly.
778 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
780 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
783 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
784 ===========================
786 This is a bug fix and portability release.
791 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
793 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
795 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
797 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
799 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
805 Use --quick when starting emacs
807 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
809 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
811 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
813 Command-Line Interface
814 ----------------------
816 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
817 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
822 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
824 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
825 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
827 Fix for phrase indexing
829 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
830 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
831 will affect only newly indexed messages.
836 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
838 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
839 unintentionally removed.
841 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
842 =========================
847 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
848 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
849 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
850 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
851 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
852 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
853 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
854 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
855 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
861 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
863 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
864 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
865 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
866 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
867 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
868 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
869 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
870 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
872 There is a new `path:` search prefix
874 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
875 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
876 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
877 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
880 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
882 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
883 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
884 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
885 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
886 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
887 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
888 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
893 Notmuch database upgrade
895 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
896 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
897 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
898 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
899 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
900 released version of Notmuch before now.
902 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
904 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
905 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
906 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
907 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
909 Message header parsing changes
911 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
912 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
913 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
914 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
915 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
916 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
918 Command-Line Interface
919 ----------------------
921 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
923 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
925 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
927 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
929 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
931 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
932 user does not want it.
934 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
936 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
937 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
938 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
939 support formatted output.
941 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
943 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
944 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
945 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
953 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
954 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
955 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
956 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
957 `~/.emacs` with these.
959 Changed format for saved searches
961 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
962 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
963 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
964 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
967 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
968 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
969 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
970 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
972 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
973 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
974 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
976 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
977 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
978 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
979 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
980 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
982 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
984 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
985 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
986 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
988 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
990 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
991 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
992 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
993 message had been unread).
995 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
996 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
997 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
998 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1000 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1001 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1002 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1004 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1005 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1006 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1007 to tags already present.
1011 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1012 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1013 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1014 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1015 these differ from each other.
1016 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1018 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1020 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1021 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1022 for these Emacs versions.
1024 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1026 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1027 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1029 Bug fixes for sender identities
1031 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1032 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1033 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1035 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1037 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1038 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1039 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1040 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1042 Reply pushes mark before signature
1044 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1045 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1046 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1048 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1050 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1051 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1057 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1058 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1060 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1061 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1062 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1063 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1065 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1066 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1067 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1068 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1069 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1071 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1073 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1074 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1076 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1077 =========================
1079 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1080 ---------------------------------------
1082 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1083 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1084 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1085 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1086 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1087 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1088 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1092 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1093 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1095 Command-Line Interface
1096 ----------------------
1098 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1100 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1101 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1102 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1103 print for each message.
1105 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1106 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1107 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1108 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1110 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1112 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1113 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1114 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1116 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1118 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1119 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1120 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1121 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1123 `notmuch compact` command
1125 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1126 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1127 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1128 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1129 move the compacted database into place.
1134 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1136 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1137 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1138 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1139 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1140 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1141 and multiple threads.
1143 Using `notmuch-tree`
1145 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1147 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1148 search, show and tree mode itself)
1150 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1153 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1154 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1156 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1158 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1159 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1160 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1161 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1162 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1163 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1164 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1166 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1168 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1169 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1170 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1171 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1172 thread when the search was performed.
1174 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1176 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1177 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1178 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1180 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1182 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1183 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1186 Built-in help improvements
1188 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1189 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1190 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1192 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1194 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1195 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1196 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1198 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1200 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1201 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1203 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1205 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1206 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1207 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1208 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1210 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1212 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1213 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1214 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1215 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1217 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1219 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1220 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1221 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1223 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1225 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1226 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1227 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1229 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1231 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1232 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1233 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1234 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1235 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1237 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1239 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1240 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1241 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1242 the body part of the message.
1247 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1248 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1249 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1251 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1252 =========================
1254 Command-Line Interface
1255 ----------------------
1257 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1259 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1260 folder and notmuch index.
1262 `notmuch count --batch` option
1264 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1265 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1267 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1269 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1270 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1271 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1274 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1276 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1277 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1278 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1279 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1280 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1283 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1285 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1286 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1288 Top level option to specify configuration file
1290 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1291 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1293 Bash command-line completion
1295 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1296 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1297 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1298 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1299 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1300 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1301 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1302 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1303 bash-completion package.
1305 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1310 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1312 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1313 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1314 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1315 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1316 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1317 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1318 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1319 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1321 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1323 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1324 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1325 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1327 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1329 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1330 previous thread in the search results.
1332 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1334 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1335 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1337 Faster search and show
1339 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1340 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1341 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1342 threads should show faster.
1346 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1347 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1348 in question was now removed from this release.
1353 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1354 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1359 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1361 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1362 ===========================
1367 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1369 Internal test framework changes
1370 -------------------------------
1372 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1373 being unimplemented.
1375 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1376 ===========================
1378 Internal test framework changes
1379 -------------------------------
1381 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1382 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1384 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1385 =========================
1390 Date range search support
1392 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1393 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1394 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1395 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1396 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1399 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1401 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1402 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1403 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1404 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1405 but may be removed in a future release.
1407 Command-Line Interface
1408 ----------------------
1410 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1412 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1413 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1415 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1417 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1418 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1419 officially deprecated.
1421 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1423 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1424 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1425 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1427 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1429 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1430 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1433 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1434 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1435 dump/restore format.
1437 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1439 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1440 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1441 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1443 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1445 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1446 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1447 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1449 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1451 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1452 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1453 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1454 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1459 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1461 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1462 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1463 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1464 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1466 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1468 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1469 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1470 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1471 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1472 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1473 the behavior of this, see
1474 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1475 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1477 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1478 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1479 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1481 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1483 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1484 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1487 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1489 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1490 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1491 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1492 simply displayed in place of the message.
1494 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1496 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1497 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1499 Improved text/calendar content handling
1501 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1502 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1503 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1504 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1506 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1508 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1509 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1510 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1511 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1513 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1515 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1516 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1517 for HTML email containing images.
1519 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1521 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1523 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1525 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1528 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1530 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1531 the point where it was.
1533 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1535 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1536 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1537 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1538 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1539 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1541 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1543 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1544 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1545 thread instead of the message id.
1547 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1548 -----------------------------
1550 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1551 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1552 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1553 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1554 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1555 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1556 further details and installation.
1561 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1563 Internal test framework changes
1564 -------------------------------
1566 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1568 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1569 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1570 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1571 can result in buggy behavior.
1573 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1574 =========================
1579 Maildir tag synchronization
1581 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1582 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1583 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1584 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1585 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1586 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1589 Command-Line Interface
1590 ----------------------
1592 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1593 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1594 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1595 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1596 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1602 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1604 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1606 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1607 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1608 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1610 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1612 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1613 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1614 span multiple lines.
1616 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1618 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1619 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1620 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1621 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1622 inside the result or message.
1624 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1626 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1627 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1629 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1630 user-specified formatting
1632 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1633 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1634 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1635 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1636 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1638 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1639 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1641 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1642 ===========================
1647 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1648 compilation error for this contrib package.
1650 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1651 ===========================
1656 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1658 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1659 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1660 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1661 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1663 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1664 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1667 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1668 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1669 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1670 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1673 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1675 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1678 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1679 =========================
1681 Command-Line Interface
1682 ----------------------
1686 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1687 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1688 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1689 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1691 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1692 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1693 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1694 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1698 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1699 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1701 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1702 tag in your query, for example:
1704 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1706 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1707 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1709 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1710 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1712 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1714 Raw show format changes
1716 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1717 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1718 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1719 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1720 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1721 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1722 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1723 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1725 Listing configuration items
1727 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1733 Changes to tagging interface
1735 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1736 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1737 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1738 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1739 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1740 for more information.
1742 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1743 may need to update in custom configurations.
1745 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1747 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1748 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1749 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1750 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1753 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1754 -----------------------------
1756 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1757 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1758 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1759 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1760 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1761 contrib/ from now on.
1766 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1767 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1769 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1770 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1772 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1773 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1774 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1776 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1777 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1779 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1780 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1781 returning the new database object or directory object.
1788 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1789 compatible with go 1.
1791 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1792 =========================
1794 Command-Line Interface
1795 ----------------------
1799 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1800 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1801 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1802 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1804 Mail store folder/file ignore
1806 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1807 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1808 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1810 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1811 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1813 Unified help and manual pages
1815 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1816 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1819 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1821 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1822 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1830 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1831 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1832 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1833 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1835 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1837 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1838 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1840 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1843 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1844 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1845 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1847 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1849 should be changed to:
1851 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1853 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1855 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1856 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1858 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1860 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1861 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1862 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1863 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1864 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1865 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1869 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1870 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1871 of Mailing List Archives.
1873 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1875 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1876 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1879 Show view archiving key binding changes
1881 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1882 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1883 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1884 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1885 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1888 Support text/calendar MIME type
1890 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1893 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1895 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1896 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1897 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1898 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1900 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1902 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1903 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1904 messages blue by default in the search view.
1908 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1909 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1916 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1919 Python bindings changes
1920 -----------------------
1922 Python 3.2 compatibility
1924 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1926 Added missing unicode conversions
1928 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1929 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1930 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1935 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1937 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1938 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1939 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1940 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1941 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1943 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1944 ===========================
1949 Fix error handling in python bindings
1951 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1952 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1953 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1954 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1956 Quote MML tags in replies
1958 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1959 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1960 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1961 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1962 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1963 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1964 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1965 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1967 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1968 =========================
1970 Command-Line Interface
1971 ----------------------
1975 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1976 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1977 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1978 importing new messages into the database.
1980 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1982 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1983 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1984 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1989 Automatic tag query optimization
1991 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1992 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1993 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1995 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1997 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1998 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1999 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2004 Reduction of memory leaks
2006 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2007 and fixed in this release.
2014 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2015 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2016 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2019 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2021 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2022 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2023 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2026 Improvements in saved search management
2028 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2029 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2030 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2032 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2034 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2035 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2036 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2038 New face for crypto parts headers
2040 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2041 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2042 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2045 Use space as default thousands separator
2047 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2048 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2049 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2051 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2052 buttonized id: links
2054 New function notmuch-show-advance
2056 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2057 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2058 be bound to SPC with:
2060 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2062 Various performance improvements
2067 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2068 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2071 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2072 ===========================
2077 Fix crash in python bindings
2079 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2080 for some, but not all users.
2082 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2083 ===========================
2088 Fix `--help` argument
2090 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2091 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2092 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2094 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2095 =========================
2097 New build and testing features
2098 ------------------------------
2100 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2101 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2102 prerequisites is improved.
2104 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2106 New command-line features
2107 -------------------------
2109 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2111 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2112 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2115 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2117 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2118 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2119 favour of using stdout.
2121 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2123 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2124 limit the number of results shown.
2126 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2128 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2129 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2132 New emacs UI features
2133 ---------------------
2135 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2137 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2138 starting with "tag:".
2140 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2142 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2143 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2145 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2147 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2149 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2151 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2152 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2157 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2159 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2161 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2162 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2163 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2164 requires a database rebuild:
2166 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2167 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2169 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2171 New collection of add-on tools
2172 ------------------------------
2174 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2175 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2176 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2179 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2181 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2182 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2183 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2185 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2186 ========================
2188 New, general features
2189 ---------------------
2191 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2193 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2194 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2195 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2196 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2197 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2204 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2205 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2207 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2211 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2212 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2213 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2216 Python bindings changes
2217 -----------------------
2219 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2221 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2222 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2223 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2224 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2225 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2226 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2228 Ruby bindings changes
2229 ---------------------
2231 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2232 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2233 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2234 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2239 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2241 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2242 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2244 Reply formatting cleanup
2245 ------------------------
2247 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2248 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2250 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2251 ========================
2253 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2255 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2256 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2257 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2258 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2261 Improved Build system portability
2263 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2264 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2265 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2267 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2269 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2271 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2273 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2274 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2275 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2277 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2278 ========================
2280 Vim interface improvements
2281 --------------------------
2283 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2285 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2286 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2287 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2288 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2289 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2291 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2293 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2294 * fix compose temp file name
2296 Python Bindings changes
2297 -----------------------
2299 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2301 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2302 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2304 Build-System improvements
2305 -------------------------
2307 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2309 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2312 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2313 ==========================
2318 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2320 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2321 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2323 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2324 =======================
2326 New, general features
2327 ---------------------
2329 Folder-based searching
2331 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2332 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2333 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2337 For example, one might use things such as:
2343 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2344 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2346 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2347 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2348 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2349 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2351 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2352 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2353 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2356 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2357 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2359 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2361 Support for PGP/MIME
2363 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2364 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2365 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2367 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2369 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2370 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2372 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2373 notmuch will receive these tags.
2375 New command-line features
2376 -------------------------
2378 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2380 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2381 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2383 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2385 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2386 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2387 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2389 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2391 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2392 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2393 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2394 which parts a signature part applies).
2396 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2398 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2399 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2400 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2401 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2402 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2405 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2407 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2408 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2409 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2410 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2411 by translating it internally to the new call.
2413 Performance improvements
2414 ------------------------
2416 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2418 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2419 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2420 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2422 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2423 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2425 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2427 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2428 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2429 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2431 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2432 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2433 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2434 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2436 Faster initial indexing
2438 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2439 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2440 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2442 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2444 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2445 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2446 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2447 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2449 New emacs-interface features
2450 ----------------------------
2452 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2454 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2455 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2456 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2457 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2458 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2459 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2461 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2463 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2464 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2465 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2466 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2468 User-selectable From address
2470 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2471 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2472 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2473 will prompt for the from address to use.
2475 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2476 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2477 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2479 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2480 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2481 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2484 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2486 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2487 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2489 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2491 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2493 ----- Original Message -----
2495 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2496 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2497 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2498 citations work much like conventional citations.
2500 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2502 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2503 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2504 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2505 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2506 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2508 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2509 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2511 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2513 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2514 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2515 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2517 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2519 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2520 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2521 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2522 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2523 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2525 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2527 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2530 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2532 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2534 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2536 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2539 Vim interface improvements
2540 --------------------------
2542 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2544 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2545 * Implementing archive in show view
2546 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2547 * Add delete commands
2550 Bindings improvements
2551 ---------------------
2553 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2555 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2556 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2558 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2560 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2564 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2565 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2566 `list(Messages)` works now
2567 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2569 These allow, for example:
2571 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2573 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2575 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2581 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2583 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2586 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2588 New build-system features
2589 -------------------------
2591 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2593 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2594 the configure script from some other directory:
2601 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2603 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2604 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2605 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2606 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2607 manual invocation of configure.
2609 New test-suite feature
2610 ----------------------
2612 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2614 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2615 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2616 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2617 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2618 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2621 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2623 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2624 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2625 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2626 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2627 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2628 are updated to take advantage of this.
2630 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2632 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2633 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2634 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2635 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2641 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2643 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2644 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2645 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2647 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2649 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2651 to:user@elsewhere.com
2653 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2655 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2657 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2659 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2660 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2661 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2664 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2665 from the Received headers in some cases
2667 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2668 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2670 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2672 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2674 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2676 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2677 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2678 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2680 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2681 -------------------------
2683 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2685 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2686 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2687 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2689 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2691 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2692 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2693 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2696 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2698 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2699 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2700 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2701 fixed to avoid this bug.
2703 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2705 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2706 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2708 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2709 ========================
2711 New, general features
2712 ---------------------
2714 Maildir-flag synchronization
2716 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2717 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2726 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2728 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2729 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2730 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2731 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2733 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2734 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2735 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2736 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2739 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2741 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2742 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2743 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2745 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2746 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2748 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2749 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2751 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2752 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2753 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2755 New library features
2756 --------------------
2758 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2760 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2761 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2762 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2763 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2765 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2766 message with the new function:
2768 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2770 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2771 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2772 over all available filenames for a given message.
2774 New command-line features
2775 -------------------------
2777 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2779 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2780 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2781 access to the mail store itself.
2783 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2784 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2785 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2786 name of a script containing:
2788 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2790 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2791 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2797 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2799 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2801 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2803 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2804 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2805 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2806 now produces nothing).
2808 Emacs interface improvements
2809 ----------------------------
2811 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2813 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2815 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2817 Display current thread subject in a header line
2819 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2821 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2823 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2824 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2825 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2826 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2827 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2828 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2829 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2831 Vim interface improvements
2832 --------------------------
2834 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2836 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2837 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2843 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2845 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2846 ========================
2848 New command-line features
2849 -------------------------
2851 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2853 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2854 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2855 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2857 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2858 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2859 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2860 scripts. For example:
2862 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2863 <operations-on> "$file"
2866 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2868 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2869 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2870 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2871 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2872 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2873 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2875 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2877 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2878 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2879 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2880 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2882 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2884 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2885 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2886 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2887 default rather than Bcc.
2889 New library features
2890 --------------------
2892 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2894 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2895 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2900 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2902 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2903 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2904 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2905 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2906 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2907 notmuch customize interface.
2909 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2911 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2912 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2913 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2914 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2916 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2918 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2919 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2920 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2921 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2923 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2925 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2926 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2927 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2928 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2929 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2930 notmuch customize interface.
2932 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2934 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2935 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2936 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2937 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2938 notmuch customize interface.
2940 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2942 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2943 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2944 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2945 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2948 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2950 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2951 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2952 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2955 New build-system features
2956 -------------------------
2958 Various portability fixes have been applied
2960 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2961 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2962 more portable than ever before.
2964 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2966 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2967 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2968 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2970 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2971 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2972 automatically run ldconfig.
2974 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2975 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2976 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2978 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2979 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2980 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2981 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2983 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2985 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2986 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2987 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2988 used in the resulting Makefile.
2990 New test-suite features
2991 -----------------------
2993 New modularization of test suite
2995 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2996 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2997 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2998 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2999 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3000 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3001 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3002 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3004 New testing of emacs interface
3006 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3007 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3008 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3009 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3010 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3011 database via the FCC setting.
3016 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3018 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3019 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3020 persistent error of the form:
3022 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3024 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3025 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3027 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3029 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3030 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3031 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3033 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3035 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3036 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3037 parsing the notmuch results).
3039 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3041 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3044 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3045 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3046 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3051 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3053 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3054 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3055 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3056 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3057 the emacs interface.
3059 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3061 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3062 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3063 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3065 Python-binding fixes
3066 --------------------
3068 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3070 Debian-specific fixes
3071 ---------------------
3073 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3075 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3076 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3077 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3080 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3081 ==========================
3086 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3088 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3089 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3090 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3091 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3093 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3095 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3096 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3097 want notmuch to crash.
3102 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3104 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3105 directory does not exist
3110 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3112 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3113 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3115 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3116 ========================
3118 New command-line features
3119 -------------------------
3121 User-configurable tags for new messages
3123 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3124 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3125 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3126 to specify this value.
3128 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3130 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3131 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3132 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3134 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3136 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3137 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3139 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3141 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3142 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3143 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3144 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3145 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3148 Indication of author names that match a search
3150 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3151 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3152 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3153 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3154 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3155 messages in the thread are listed first.
3157 New: Python bindings
3158 --------------------
3160 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3161 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3162 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3163 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3165 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3166 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3167 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3170 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3171 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3172 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3174 Emacs interface improvements
3175 ----------------------------
3177 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3179 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3180 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3181 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3182 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3183 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3184 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3185 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3186 but without any of the disadvantages).
3188 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3189 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3190 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3193 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3194 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3195 instead running something like:
3197 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3199 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3200 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3201 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3204 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3206 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3207 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3208 tweaked by the user.
3210 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3211 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3212 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3215 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3216 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3217 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3220 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3222 This support currently relies on an external program,
3223 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3224 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3225 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3226 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3227 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3230 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3231 notmuch) is available via:
3233 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3235 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3236 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3237 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3239 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3241 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3242 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3243 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3244 making this automatic in a future release.
3246 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3248 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3249 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3250 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3251 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3252 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3253 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3256 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3258 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3259 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3260 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3262 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3264 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3265 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3266 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3268 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3269 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3270 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3271 other representation.
3273 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3274 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3277 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3279 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3280 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3281 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3283 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3284 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3285 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3287 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3289 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3290 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3291 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3292 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3293 to display the search result.
3295 More flexible handling of header visibility
3297 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3298 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3299 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3300 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3301 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3302 with the 'h' keybinding.
3304 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3305 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3306 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3308 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3310 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3312 Customizable formatting of search results
3314 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3315 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3316 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3318 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3320 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3322 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3327 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3329 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3330 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3331 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3332 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3338 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3340 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3341 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3343 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3345 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3346 accept are now all accepted.
3351 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3353 Better display of output from failed tests
3355 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3356 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3358 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3359 ========================
3361 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3362 detailed release notes this time!
3364 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3365 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3367 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3368 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3369 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3370 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3377 Better guessing of From: header
3379 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3380 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3381 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3382 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3383 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3386 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3388 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3389 guaranteed to match all messages.
3391 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3393 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3394 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3395 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3396 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3397 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3400 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3403 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3404 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3405 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3406 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3411 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3413 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3414 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3415 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3416 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3418 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3420 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3422 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3423 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3424 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3426 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3428 Previously, the user might see:
3430 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3434 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3436 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3437 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3438 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3439 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3441 Emacs client features
3442 ---------------------
3444 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3446 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3447 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3448 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3449 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3450 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3452 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3455 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3456 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3457 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3458 search with the '*' binding.
3460 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3462 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3463 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3466 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3468 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3469 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3470 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3472 Build-system features
3473 ---------------------
3475 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3477 Add support to configure for many standard options
3479 We include actual support for:
3481 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3483 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3485 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3486 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3488 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3489 separate "make install-emacs"
3491 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3493 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3494 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3495 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3497 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3500 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3501 ========================
3503 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3505 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3506 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3508 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3509 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3510 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3511 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3512 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3513 tags from messages in a thread.
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