1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
17 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
19 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
20 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
21 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
22 on a per-message basis with the --try-decrypt argument to indexing
23 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
24 config set index.try_decrypt true".
26 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
27 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
28 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
29 this feature without considering the security of your index.
32 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
33 ===========================
38 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
41 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
42 =========================
47 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
49 Skip HTML tags when indexing
51 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
53 Command Line Interface
54 ----------------------
56 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
58 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
63 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
65 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
66 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
69 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
74 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
76 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
77 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
79 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
81 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
82 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
85 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
87 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
89 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
91 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
92 ===========================
94 Command Line Interface
95 ----------------------
97 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
102 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
104 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
105 ===========================
110 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
112 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
113 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
116 Command Line Interface
117 ----------------------
119 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
121 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
123 Fix bug in dump header
125 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
126 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
127 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
132 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
134 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
135 =========================
140 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
142 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
145 Command Line Interface
146 ----------------------
148 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
150 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
151 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
152 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
154 New default output format to 3
156 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
157 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
158 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
159 default format changes.
164 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
166 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
167 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
168 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
169 or tree view to resume.
171 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
172 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
173 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
176 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
177 they were when you postponed in the final message.
181 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
182 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
183 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
184 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
185 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
189 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
190 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
191 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
192 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
193 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
194 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
198 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
199 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
201 Stop display of `application/*` parts
203 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
204 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
205 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
206 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
207 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
208 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
209 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
210 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
213 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
215 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
216 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
217 only tagged the current thread.)
219 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
221 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
222 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
223 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
225 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
227 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
228 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
229 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
230 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
231 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
232 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
233 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
235 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
237 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
238 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
239 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
244 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
246 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
249 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
251 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
254 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
255 ===========================
260 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
262 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
263 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
264 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
267 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
268 ===========================
270 Command Line Interface
271 ----------------------
273 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
278 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
280 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
281 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
282 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
284 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
285 ===========================
290 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
291 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
293 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
294 ===========================
296 Command Line Interface
297 ----------------------
299 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
301 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
302 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
303 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
308 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
310 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
311 ===========================
313 Command Line Interface
314 ----------------------
316 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
321 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
323 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
324 ===========================
329 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
331 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
332 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
333 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
335 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
337 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
339 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
340 ===========================
345 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
347 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
352 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
354 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
355 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
356 the original colours.
358 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
359 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
361 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
363 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
364 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
365 bug, and hence the test.
367 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
368 =========================
370 General (Xapian 1.4+)
371 ---------------------
373 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
375 Support for single argument date: queries
377 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
379 Support for blocking opens
381 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
382 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
384 Support for named queries
386 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
387 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
388 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
395 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
396 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
397 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
398 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
400 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
402 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
407 Support for compile time options
409 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
410 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
413 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
415 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
416 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
417 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
418 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
419 scripts to ignore it.
424 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
426 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
427 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
428 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
430 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
431 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
432 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
433 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
434 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
435 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
436 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
438 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
439 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
442 Make internal address completion customizable
444 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
445 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
446 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
447 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
450 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
452 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
453 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
454 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
455 completion for the current buffer.
457 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
458 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
459 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
463 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
464 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
465 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
466 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
467 will be added instead.
469 Face customization is easier
471 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
472 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
473 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
474 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
476 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
481 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
486 Go bindings moved to contrib
488 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
490 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
492 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
493 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
495 The same issue occured with sort modes.
497 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
498 ===========================
505 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
506 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
508 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
510 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
512 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
513 ===========================
518 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
520 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
525 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
530 Use `env` to locate perl.
535 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
537 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
539 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
541 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
543 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
544 =========================
551 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
552 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
554 Limited support for S/MIME messages
556 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
557 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
558 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
563 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
564 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
565 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
567 Command Line Interface
568 ----------------------
570 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
572 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
577 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
582 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
584 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
585 parts are now included in replies.
587 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
588 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
589 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
590 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
592 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
594 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
596 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
598 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
599 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
600 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
601 forwards only the current message.
603 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
605 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
606 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
607 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
608 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
609 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
610 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
611 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
612 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
615 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
616 longer generate empty buffers
618 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
619 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
620 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
621 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
622 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
624 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
626 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
629 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
631 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
634 Address completion improvements
636 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
637 you previously configured one, customize the variable
638 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
639 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
640 interactive address completion.
642 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
644 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
645 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
646 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
651 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
652 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
653 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
659 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
660 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
661 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
662 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
663 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
664 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
666 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
667 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
668 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
669 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
670 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
671 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
673 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
674 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
676 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
677 =========================
682 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
685 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
687 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
688 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
689 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
691 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
692 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
694 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
695 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
696 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
698 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
700 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
701 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
702 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
703 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
704 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
705 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
710 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
711 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
714 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
717 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
719 Command Line Interface
720 ----------------------
722 Database revision tracking
724 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
725 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
726 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
727 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
729 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
731 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
732 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
733 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
734 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
735 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
736 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
737 manual page for further information.
742 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
744 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
745 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
747 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
749 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
750 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
751 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
753 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
755 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
757 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
758 customization as well.
760 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
762 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
764 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
766 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
768 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
769 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
770 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
771 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
773 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
775 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
776 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
777 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
778 this variable to 10000.
783 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
784 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
786 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
788 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
789 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
790 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
791 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
792 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
793 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
794 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
795 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
796 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
799 Database revision tracking
801 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
802 query parser and the new function
803 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
805 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
809 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
810 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
811 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
812 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
817 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
819 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
820 ===========================
825 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
827 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
828 ===========================
833 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
835 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
836 =========================
838 Command-Line Interface
839 ----------------------
841 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
843 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
844 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
845 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
847 Path to gpg is now configurable
849 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
850 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
855 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
857 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
862 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
867 Support messages without Message-IDs.
872 Undeprecate single message mboxes
874 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
875 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
877 New error logging facility
879 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
880 output formerly printed to stderr.
882 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
884 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
886 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
888 Fix for rounding of seconds
893 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
895 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
896 docmumentation has been removed.
898 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
900 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
901 some material from the relicensed wiki.
906 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
907 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
908 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
913 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
914 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
915 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
916 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
917 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
918 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
921 git checkout config origin/config
923 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
925 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
926 =========================
931 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
932 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
933 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
934 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
935 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
936 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
937 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
939 Command-Line Interface
940 ----------------------
942 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
944 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
945 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
946 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
947 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
948 script callers should still check the return value.
950 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
952 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
953 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
954 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
955 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
956 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
957 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
958 and returning success even if indexing fails).
960 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
962 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
963 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
964 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
966 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
968 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
969 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
970 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
971 currently unmaintained.
973 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
975 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
976 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
977 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
978 have at least `N` files associated with them.
980 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
982 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
983 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
984 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
985 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
986 count of duplicate addresses.
991 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
993 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
994 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
995 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
998 Improved handling of the unread tag
1000 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1001 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1002 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1003 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1004 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1005 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1006 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1008 Expanded default saved search settings
1010 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1011 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1013 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1015 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1016 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1017 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1019 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1021 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1022 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1023 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1024 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1025 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1026 the variable for details.
1031 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1033 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1034 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1035 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1036 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1038 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1040 Previously, library users were required to call
1041 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1042 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1043 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1044 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1045 too out of date for that API.
1047 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1049 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1050 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1051 atomic section will be aborted.
1053 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1054 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1056 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1058 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1059 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1060 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1061 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1062 messages into the same thread.
1067 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1068 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1069 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1070 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1071 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1072 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1077 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1078 from the config file. Use something like:
1082 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1083 "footer": "</body></html>",
1092 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1097 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1098 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1099 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1101 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1102 ===========================
1107 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1109 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1111 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1113 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1114 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1116 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1118 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1121 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1122 ===========================
1124 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1129 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1131 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1133 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1135 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1137 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1143 Use --quick when starting emacs
1145 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1147 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1149 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1151 Command-Line Interface
1152 ----------------------
1154 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1155 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1160 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1162 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1163 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1165 Fix for phrase indexing
1167 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1168 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1169 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1174 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1176 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1177 unintentionally removed.
1179 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1180 =========================
1185 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1186 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1187 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1188 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1189 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1190 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1191 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1192 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1193 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1199 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1201 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1202 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1203 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1204 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1205 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1206 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1207 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1208 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1210 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1212 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1213 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1214 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1215 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1218 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1220 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1221 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1222 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1223 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1224 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1225 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1226 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1231 Notmuch database upgrade
1233 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1234 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1235 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1236 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1237 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1238 released version of Notmuch before now.
1240 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1242 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1243 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1244 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1245 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1247 Message header parsing changes
1249 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1250 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1251 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1252 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1253 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1254 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1256 Command-Line Interface
1257 ----------------------
1259 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1261 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1263 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1265 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1267 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1269 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1270 user does not want it.
1272 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1274 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1275 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1276 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1277 support formatted output.
1279 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1281 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1282 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1283 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1291 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1292 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1293 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1294 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1295 `~/.emacs` with these.
1297 Changed format for saved searches
1299 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1300 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1301 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1302 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1305 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1306 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1307 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1308 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1310 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1311 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1312 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1314 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1315 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1316 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1317 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1318 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1320 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1322 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1323 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1324 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1326 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1328 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1329 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1330 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1331 message had been unread).
1333 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1334 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1335 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1336 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1338 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1339 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1340 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1342 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1343 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1344 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1345 to tags already present.
1349 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1350 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1351 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1352 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1353 these differ from each other.
1354 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1356 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1358 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1359 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1360 for these Emacs versions.
1362 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1364 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1365 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1367 Bug fixes for sender identities
1369 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1370 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1371 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1373 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1375 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1376 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1377 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1378 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1380 Reply pushes mark before signature
1382 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1383 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1384 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1386 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1388 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1389 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1395 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1396 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1398 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1399 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1400 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1401 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1403 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1404 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1405 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1406 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1407 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1409 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1411 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1412 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1414 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1415 =========================
1417 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1418 ---------------------------------------
1420 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1421 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1422 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1423 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1424 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1425 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1426 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1430 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1431 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1433 Command-Line Interface
1434 ----------------------
1436 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1438 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1439 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1440 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1441 print for each message.
1443 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1444 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1445 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1446 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1448 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1450 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1451 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1452 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1454 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1456 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1457 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1458 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1459 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1461 `notmuch compact` command
1463 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1464 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1465 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1466 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1467 move the compacted database into place.
1472 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1474 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1475 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1476 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1477 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1478 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1479 and multiple threads.
1481 Using `notmuch-tree`
1483 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1485 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1486 search, show and tree mode itself)
1488 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1491 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1492 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1494 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1496 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1497 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1498 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1499 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1500 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1501 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1502 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1504 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1506 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1507 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1508 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1509 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1510 thread when the search was performed.
1512 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1514 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1515 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1516 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1518 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1520 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1521 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1524 Built-in help improvements
1526 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1527 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1528 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1530 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1532 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1533 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1534 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1536 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1538 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1539 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1541 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1543 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1544 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1545 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1546 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1548 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1550 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1551 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1552 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1553 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1555 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1557 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1558 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1559 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1561 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1563 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1564 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1565 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1567 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1569 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1570 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1571 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1572 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1573 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1575 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1577 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1578 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1579 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1580 the body part of the message.
1585 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1586 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1587 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1589 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1590 =========================
1592 Command-Line Interface
1593 ----------------------
1595 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1597 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1598 folder and notmuch index.
1600 `notmuch count --batch` option
1602 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1603 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1605 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1607 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1608 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1609 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1612 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1614 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1615 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1616 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1617 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1618 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1621 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1623 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1624 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1626 Top level option to specify configuration file
1628 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1629 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1631 Bash command-line completion
1633 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1634 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1635 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1636 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1637 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1638 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1639 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1640 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1641 bash-completion package.
1643 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1648 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1650 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1651 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1652 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1653 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1654 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1655 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1656 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1657 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1659 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1661 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1662 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1663 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1665 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1667 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1668 previous thread in the search results.
1670 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1672 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1673 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1675 Faster search and show
1677 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1678 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1679 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1680 threads should show faster.
1684 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1685 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1686 in question was now removed from this release.
1691 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1692 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1697 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1699 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1700 ===========================
1705 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1707 Internal test framework changes
1708 -------------------------------
1710 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1711 being unimplemented.
1713 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1714 ===========================
1716 Internal test framework changes
1717 -------------------------------
1719 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1720 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1722 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1723 =========================
1728 Date range search support
1730 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1731 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1732 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1733 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1734 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1737 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1739 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1740 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1741 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1742 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1743 but may be removed in a future release.
1745 Command-Line Interface
1746 ----------------------
1748 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1750 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1751 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1753 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1755 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1756 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1757 officially deprecated.
1759 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1761 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1762 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1763 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1765 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1767 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1768 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1771 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1772 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1773 dump/restore format.
1775 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1777 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1778 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1779 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1781 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1783 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1784 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1785 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1787 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1789 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1790 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1791 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1792 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1797 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1799 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1800 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1801 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1802 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1804 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1806 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1807 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1808 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1809 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1810 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1811 the behavior of this, see
1812 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1813 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1815 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1816 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1817 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1819 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1821 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1822 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1825 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1827 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1828 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1829 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1830 simply displayed in place of the message.
1832 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1834 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1835 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1837 Improved text/calendar content handling
1839 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1840 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1841 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1842 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1844 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1846 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1847 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1848 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1849 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1851 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1853 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1854 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1855 for HTML email containing images.
1857 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1859 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1861 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1863 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1866 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1868 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1869 the point where it was.
1871 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1873 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1874 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1875 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1876 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1877 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1879 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1881 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1882 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1883 thread instead of the message id.
1885 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1886 -----------------------------
1888 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1889 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1890 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1891 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1892 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1893 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1894 further details and installation.
1899 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1901 Internal test framework changes
1902 -------------------------------
1904 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1906 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1907 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1908 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1909 can result in buggy behavior.
1911 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1912 =========================
1917 Maildir tag synchronization
1919 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1920 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1921 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1922 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1923 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1924 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1927 Command-Line Interface
1928 ----------------------
1930 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1931 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1932 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1933 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1934 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1940 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1942 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1944 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1945 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1946 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1948 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1950 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1951 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1952 span multiple lines.
1954 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1956 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1957 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1958 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1959 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1960 inside the result or message.
1962 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1964 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1965 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1967 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1968 user-specified formatting
1970 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1971 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1972 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1973 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1974 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1976 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1977 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1979 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1980 ===========================
1985 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1986 compilation error for this contrib package.
1988 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1989 ===========================
1994 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1996 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1997 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1998 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1999 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2001 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2002 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2005 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2006 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2007 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2008 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2011 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2013 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2016 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2017 =========================
2019 Command-Line Interface
2020 ----------------------
2024 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2025 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2026 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2027 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2029 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2030 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2031 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2032 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2036 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2037 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2039 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2040 tag in your query, for example:
2042 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2044 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2045 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2047 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2048 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2050 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2052 Raw show format changes
2054 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2055 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2056 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2057 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2058 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2059 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2060 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2061 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2063 Listing configuration items
2065 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2071 Changes to tagging interface
2073 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2074 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2075 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2076 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2077 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2078 for more information.
2080 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2081 may need to update in custom configurations.
2083 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2085 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2086 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2087 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2088 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2091 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2092 -----------------------------
2094 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2095 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2096 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2097 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2098 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2099 contrib/ from now on.
2104 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2105 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2107 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2108 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2110 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2111 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2112 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2114 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2115 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2117 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2118 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2119 returning the new database object or directory object.
2126 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2127 compatible with go 1.
2129 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2130 =========================
2132 Command-Line Interface
2133 ----------------------
2137 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2138 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2139 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2140 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2142 Mail store folder/file ignore
2144 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2145 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2146 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2148 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2149 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2151 Unified help and manual pages
2153 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2154 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2157 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2159 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2160 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2168 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2169 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2170 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2171 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2173 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2175 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2176 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2178 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2181 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2182 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2183 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2185 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2187 should be changed to:
2189 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2191 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2193 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2194 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2196 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2198 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2199 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2200 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2201 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2202 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2203 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2207 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2208 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2209 of Mailing List Archives.
2211 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2213 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2214 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2217 Show view archiving key binding changes
2219 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2220 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2221 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2222 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2223 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2226 Support text/calendar MIME type
2228 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2231 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2233 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2234 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2235 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2236 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2238 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2240 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2241 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2242 messages blue by default in the search view.
2246 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2247 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2254 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2257 Python bindings changes
2258 -----------------------
2260 Python 3.2 compatibility
2262 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2264 Added missing unicode conversions
2266 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2267 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2268 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2273 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2275 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2276 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2277 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2278 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2279 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2281 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2282 ===========================
2287 Fix error handling in python bindings
2289 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2290 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2291 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2292 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2294 Quote MML tags in replies
2296 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2297 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2298 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2299 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2300 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2301 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2302 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2303 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2305 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2306 =========================
2308 Command-Line Interface
2309 ----------------------
2313 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2314 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2315 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2316 importing new messages into the database.
2318 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2320 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2321 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2322 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2327 Automatic tag query optimization
2329 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2330 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2331 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2333 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2335 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2336 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2337 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2342 Reduction of memory leaks
2344 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2345 and fixed in this release.
2352 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2353 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2354 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2357 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2359 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2360 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2361 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2364 Improvements in saved search management
2366 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2367 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2368 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2370 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2372 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2373 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2374 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2376 New face for crypto parts headers
2378 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2379 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2380 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2383 Use space as default thousands separator
2385 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2386 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2387 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2389 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2390 buttonized id: links
2392 New function notmuch-show-advance
2394 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2395 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2396 be bound to SPC with:
2398 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2400 Various performance improvements
2405 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2406 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2409 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2410 ===========================
2415 Fix crash in python bindings
2417 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2418 for some, but not all users.
2420 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2421 ===========================
2426 Fix `--help` argument
2428 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2429 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2430 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2432 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2433 =========================
2435 New build and testing features
2436 ------------------------------
2438 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2439 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2440 prerequisites is improved.
2442 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2444 New command-line features
2445 -------------------------
2447 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2449 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2450 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2453 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2455 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2456 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2457 favour of using stdout.
2459 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2461 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2462 limit the number of results shown.
2464 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2466 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2467 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2470 New emacs UI features
2471 ---------------------
2473 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2475 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2476 starting with "tag:".
2478 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2480 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2481 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2483 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2485 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2487 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2489 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2490 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2495 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2497 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2499 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2500 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2501 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2502 requires a database rebuild:
2504 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2505 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2507 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2509 New collection of add-on tools
2510 ------------------------------
2512 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2513 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2514 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2517 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2519 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2520 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2521 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2523 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2524 ========================
2526 New, general features
2527 ---------------------
2529 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2531 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2532 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2533 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2534 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2535 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2542 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2543 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2545 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2549 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2550 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2551 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2554 Python bindings changes
2555 -----------------------
2557 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2559 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2560 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2561 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2562 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2563 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2564 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2566 Ruby bindings changes
2567 ---------------------
2569 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2570 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2571 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2572 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2577 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2579 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2580 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2582 Reply formatting cleanup
2583 ------------------------
2585 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2586 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2588 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2589 ========================
2591 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2593 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2594 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2595 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2596 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2599 Improved Build system portability
2601 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2602 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2603 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2605 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2607 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2609 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2611 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2612 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2613 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2615 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2616 ========================
2618 Vim interface improvements
2619 --------------------------
2621 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2623 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2624 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2625 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2626 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2627 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2629 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2631 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2632 * fix compose temp file name
2634 Python Bindings changes
2635 -----------------------
2637 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2639 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2640 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2642 Build-System improvements
2643 -------------------------
2645 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2647 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2650 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2651 ==========================
2656 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2658 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2659 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2661 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2662 =======================
2664 New, general features
2665 ---------------------
2667 Folder-based searching
2669 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2670 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2671 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2675 For example, one might use things such as:
2681 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2682 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2684 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2685 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2686 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2687 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2689 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2690 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2691 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2694 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2695 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2697 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2699 Support for PGP/MIME
2701 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2702 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2703 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2705 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2707 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2708 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2710 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2711 notmuch will receive these tags.
2713 New command-line features
2714 -------------------------
2716 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2718 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2719 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2721 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2723 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2724 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2725 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2727 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2729 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2730 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2731 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2732 which parts a signature part applies).
2734 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2736 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2737 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2738 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2739 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2740 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2743 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2745 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2746 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2747 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2748 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2749 by translating it internally to the new call.
2751 Performance improvements
2752 ------------------------
2754 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2756 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2757 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2758 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2760 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2761 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2763 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2765 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2766 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2767 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2769 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2770 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2771 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2772 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2774 Faster initial indexing
2776 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2777 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2778 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2780 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2782 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2783 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2784 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2785 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2787 New emacs-interface features
2788 ----------------------------
2790 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2792 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2793 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2794 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2795 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2796 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2797 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2799 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2801 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2802 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2803 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2804 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2806 User-selectable From address
2808 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2809 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2810 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2811 will prompt for the from address to use.
2813 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2814 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2815 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2817 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2818 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2819 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2822 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2824 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2825 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2827 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2829 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2831 ----- Original Message -----
2833 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2834 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2835 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2836 citations work much like conventional citations.
2838 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2840 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2841 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2842 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2843 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2844 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2846 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2847 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2849 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2851 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2852 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2853 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2855 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2857 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2858 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2859 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2860 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2861 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2863 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2865 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2868 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2870 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2872 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2874 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2877 Vim interface improvements
2878 --------------------------
2880 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2882 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2883 * Implementing archive in show view
2884 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2885 * Add delete commands
2888 Bindings improvements
2889 ---------------------
2891 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2893 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2894 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2896 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2898 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2902 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2903 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2904 `list(Messages)` works now
2905 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2907 These allow, for example:
2909 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2911 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2913 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2919 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2921 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2924 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2926 New build-system features
2927 -------------------------
2929 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2931 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2932 the configure script from some other directory:
2939 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2941 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2942 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2943 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2944 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2945 manual invocation of configure.
2947 New test-suite feature
2948 ----------------------
2950 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2952 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2953 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2954 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2955 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2956 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2959 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2961 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2962 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2963 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2964 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2965 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2966 are updated to take advantage of this.
2968 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2970 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2971 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2972 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2973 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2979 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2981 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2982 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2983 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2985 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2987 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2989 to:user@elsewhere.com
2991 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2993 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2995 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2997 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2998 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2999 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3002 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3003 from the Received headers in some cases
3005 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3006 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3008 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3010 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3012 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3014 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3015 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3016 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3018 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3019 -------------------------
3021 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3023 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3024 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3025 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3027 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3029 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3030 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3031 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3034 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3036 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3037 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3038 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3039 fixed to avoid this bug.
3041 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3043 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3044 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3046 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3047 ========================
3049 New, general features
3050 ---------------------
3052 Maildir-flag synchronization
3054 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3055 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3064 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3066 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3067 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3068 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3069 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3071 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3072 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3073 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3074 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3077 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3079 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3080 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3081 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3083 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3084 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3086 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3087 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3089 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3090 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3091 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3093 New library features
3094 --------------------
3096 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3098 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3099 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3100 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3101 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3103 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3104 message with the new function:
3106 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3108 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3109 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3110 over all available filenames for a given message.
3112 New command-line features
3113 -------------------------
3115 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3117 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3118 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3119 access to the mail store itself.
3121 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3122 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3123 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3124 name of a script containing:
3126 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3128 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3129 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3135 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3137 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3139 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3141 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3142 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3143 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3144 now produces nothing).
3146 Emacs interface improvements
3147 ----------------------------
3149 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3151 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3153 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3155 Display current thread subject in a header line
3157 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3159 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3161 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3162 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3163 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3164 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3165 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3166 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3167 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3169 Vim interface improvements
3170 --------------------------
3172 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3174 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3175 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3181 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3183 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3184 ========================
3186 New command-line features
3187 -------------------------
3189 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3191 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3192 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3193 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3195 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3196 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3197 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3198 scripts. For example:
3200 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3201 <operations-on> "$file"
3204 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3206 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3207 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3208 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3209 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3210 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3211 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3213 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3215 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3216 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3217 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3218 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3220 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3222 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3223 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3224 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3225 default rather than Bcc.
3227 New library features
3228 --------------------
3230 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3232 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3233 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3238 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3240 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3241 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3242 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3243 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3244 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3245 notmuch customize interface.
3247 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3249 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3250 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3251 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3252 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3254 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3256 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3257 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3258 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3259 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3261 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3263 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3264 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3265 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3266 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3267 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3268 notmuch customize interface.
3270 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3272 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3273 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3274 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3275 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3276 notmuch customize interface.
3278 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3280 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3281 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3282 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3283 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3286 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3288 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3289 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3290 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3293 New build-system features
3294 -------------------------
3296 Various portability fixes have been applied
3298 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3299 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3300 more portable than ever before.
3302 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3304 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3305 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3306 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3308 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3309 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3310 automatically run ldconfig.
3312 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3313 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3314 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3316 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3317 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3318 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3319 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3321 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3323 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3324 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3325 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3326 used in the resulting Makefile.
3328 New test-suite features
3329 -----------------------
3331 New modularization of test suite
3333 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3334 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3335 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3336 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3337 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3338 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3339 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3340 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3342 New testing of emacs interface
3344 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3345 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3346 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3347 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3348 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3349 database via the FCC setting.
3354 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3356 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3357 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3358 persistent error of the form:
3360 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3362 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3363 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3365 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3367 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3368 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3369 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3371 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3373 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3374 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3375 parsing the notmuch results).
3377 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3379 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3382 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3383 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3384 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3389 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3391 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3392 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3393 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3394 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3395 the emacs interface.
3397 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3399 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3400 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3401 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3403 Python-binding fixes
3404 --------------------
3406 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3408 Debian-specific fixes
3409 ---------------------
3411 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3413 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3414 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3415 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3418 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3419 ==========================
3424 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3426 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3427 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3428 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3429 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3431 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3433 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3434 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3435 want notmuch to crash.
3440 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3442 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3443 directory does not exist
3448 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3450 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3451 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3453 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3454 ========================
3456 New command-line features
3457 -------------------------
3459 User-configurable tags for new messages
3461 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3462 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3463 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3464 to specify this value.
3466 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3468 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3469 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3470 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3472 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3474 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3475 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3477 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3479 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3480 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3481 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3482 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3483 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3486 Indication of author names that match a search
3488 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3489 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3490 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3491 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3492 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3493 messages in the thread are listed first.
3495 New: Python bindings
3496 --------------------
3498 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3499 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3500 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3501 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3503 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3504 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3505 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3508 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3509 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3510 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3512 Emacs interface improvements
3513 ----------------------------
3515 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3517 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3518 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3519 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3520 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3521 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3522 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3523 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3524 but without any of the disadvantages).
3526 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3527 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3528 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3531 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3532 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3533 instead running something like:
3535 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3537 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3538 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3539 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3542 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3544 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3545 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3546 tweaked by the user.
3548 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3549 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3550 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3553 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3554 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3555 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3558 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3560 This support currently relies on an external program,
3561 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3562 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3563 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3564 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3565 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3568 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3569 notmuch) is available via:
3571 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3573 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3574 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3575 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3577 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3579 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3580 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3581 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3582 making this automatic in a future release.
3584 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3586 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3587 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3588 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3589 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3590 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3591 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3594 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3596 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3597 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3598 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3600 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3602 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3603 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3604 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3606 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3607 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3608 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3609 other representation.
3611 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3612 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3615 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3617 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3618 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3619 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3621 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3622 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3623 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3625 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3627 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3628 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3629 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3630 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3631 to display the search result.
3633 More flexible handling of header visibility
3635 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3636 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3637 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3638 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3639 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3640 with the 'h' keybinding.
3642 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3643 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3644 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3646 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3648 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3650 Customizable formatting of search results
3652 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3653 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3654 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3656 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3658 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3660 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3665 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3667 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3668 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3669 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3670 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3676 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3678 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3679 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3681 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3683 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3684 accept are now all accepted.
3689 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3691 Better display of output from failed tests
3693 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3694 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3696 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3697 ========================
3699 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3700 detailed release notes this time!
3702 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3703 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3705 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3706 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3707 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3708 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3715 Better guessing of From: header
3717 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3718 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3719 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3720 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3721 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3724 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3726 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3727 guaranteed to match all messages.
3729 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3731 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3732 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3733 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3734 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3735 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3738 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3741 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3742 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3743 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3744 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3749 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3751 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3752 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3753 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3754 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3756 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3758 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3760 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3761 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3762 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3764 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3766 Previously, the user might see:
3768 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3772 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3774 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3775 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3776 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3777 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3779 Emacs client features
3780 ---------------------
3782 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3784 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3785 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3786 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3787 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3788 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3790 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3793 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3794 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3795 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3796 search with the '*' binding.
3798 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3800 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3801 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3804 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3806 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3807 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3808 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3810 Build-system features
3811 ---------------------
3813 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3815 Add support to configure for many standard options
3817 We include actual support for:
3819 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3821 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3823 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3824 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3826 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3827 separate "make install-emacs"
3829 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3831 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3832 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3833 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3835 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3838 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3839 ========================
3841 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3843 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3844 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3846 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3847 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3848 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3849 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3850 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3851 tags from messages in a thread.
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