1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Support for re-indexing existing messages
9 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
10 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
11 change the way specific messages are indexed.
13 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
14 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
15 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
17 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
19 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
21 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
23 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
24 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
25 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
26 the setting of `new.tags`.
28 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
30 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
32 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
34 This inserts into the top level folder.
36 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
38 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
40 New option --output=address for notmuch address
42 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
44 --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
46 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
47 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
48 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
50 --no-<arg> may be used to negate boolean and keyword arguments
55 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
57 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
58 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
59 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
60 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
61 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
62 config set index.decrypt true".
64 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
65 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
66 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
67 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
68 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
69 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
70 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
71 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
73 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
74 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
75 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
76 this feature without considering the security of your index.
81 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
83 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
84 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
85 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
86 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
88 New functions to count files
90 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
91 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
93 New function to remove properties
95 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
96 drop all properties with a common pattern:
97 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
99 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
101 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
102 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
103 possibility of NULL was not documented.
105 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
107 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
108 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
109 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
110 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
111 operator may decide to change from message to message.
118 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
119 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
120 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
126 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
128 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
129 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
131 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
133 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
135 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
137 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
142 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
143 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
145 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
146 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
147 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
148 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
149 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
150 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
155 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
157 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
158 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
159 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
160 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
162 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
163 ===========================
168 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
169 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
172 Command Line Interface
173 ----------------------
175 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
176 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
179 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
180 ===========================
182 Command Line Interface
183 ----------------------
185 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
186 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
191 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
194 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
195 ===========================
200 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
203 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
204 =========================
209 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
211 Skip HTML tags when indexing
213 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
215 Command Line Interface
216 ----------------------
218 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
220 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
225 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
227 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
228 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
231 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
236 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
238 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
239 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
241 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
243 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
244 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
247 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
249 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
251 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
253 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
254 ===========================
256 Command Line Interface
257 ----------------------
259 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
264 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
266 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
267 ===========================
272 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
274 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
275 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
278 Command Line Interface
279 ----------------------
281 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
283 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
285 Fix bug in dump header
287 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
288 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
289 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
294 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
296 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
297 =========================
302 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
304 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
307 Command Line Interface
308 ----------------------
310 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
312 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
313 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
314 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
316 New default output format to 3
318 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
319 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
320 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
321 default format changes.
326 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
328 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
329 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
330 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
331 or tree view to resume.
333 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
334 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
335 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
338 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
339 they were when you postponed in the final message.
343 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
344 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
345 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
346 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
347 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
351 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
352 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
353 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
354 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
355 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
356 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
360 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
361 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
363 Stop display of `application/*` parts
365 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
366 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
367 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
368 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
369 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
370 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
371 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
372 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
375 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
377 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
378 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
379 only tagged the current thread.)
381 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
383 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
384 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
385 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
387 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
389 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
390 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
391 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
392 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
393 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
394 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
395 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
397 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
399 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
400 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
401 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
406 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
408 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
411 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
413 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
416 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
417 ===========================
422 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
424 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
425 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
426 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
429 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
430 ===========================
432 Command Line Interface
433 ----------------------
435 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
440 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
442 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
443 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
444 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
446 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
447 ===========================
452 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
453 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
455 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
456 ===========================
458 Command Line Interface
459 ----------------------
461 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
463 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
464 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
465 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
470 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
472 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
473 ===========================
475 Command Line Interface
476 ----------------------
478 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
483 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
485 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
486 ===========================
491 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
493 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
494 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
495 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
497 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
499 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
501 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
502 ===========================
507 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
509 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
514 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
516 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
517 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
518 the original colours.
520 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
521 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
523 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
525 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
526 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
527 bug, and hence the test.
529 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
530 =========================
532 General (Xapian 1.4+)
533 ---------------------
535 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
537 Support for single argument date: queries
539 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
541 Support for blocking opens
543 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
544 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
546 Support for named queries
548 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
549 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
550 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
557 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
558 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
559 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
560 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
562 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
564 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
569 Support for compile time options
571 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
572 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
575 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
577 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
578 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
579 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
580 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
581 scripts to ignore it.
586 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
588 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
589 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
590 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
592 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
593 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
594 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
595 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
596 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
597 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
598 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
600 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
601 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
604 Make internal address completion customizable
606 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
607 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
608 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
609 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
612 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
614 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
615 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
616 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
617 completion for the current buffer.
619 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
620 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
621 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
625 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
626 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
627 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
628 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
629 will be added instead.
631 Face customization is easier
633 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
634 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
635 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
636 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
638 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
643 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
648 Go bindings moved to contrib
650 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
652 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
654 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
655 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
657 The same issue occured with sort modes.
659 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
660 ===========================
667 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
668 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
670 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
672 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
674 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
675 ===========================
680 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
682 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
687 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
692 Use `env` to locate perl.
697 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
699 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
701 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
703 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
705 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
706 =========================
713 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
714 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
716 Limited support for S/MIME messages
718 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
719 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
720 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
725 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
726 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
727 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
729 Command Line Interface
730 ----------------------
732 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
734 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
739 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
744 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
746 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
747 parts are now included in replies.
749 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
750 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
751 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
752 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
754 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
756 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
758 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
760 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
761 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
762 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
763 forwards only the current message.
765 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
767 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
768 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
769 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
770 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
771 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
772 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
773 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
774 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
777 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
778 longer generate empty buffers
780 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
781 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
782 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
783 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
784 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
786 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
788 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
791 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
793 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
796 Address completion improvements
798 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
799 you previously configured one, customize the variable
800 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
801 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
802 interactive address completion.
804 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
806 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
807 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
808 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
813 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
814 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
815 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
821 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
822 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
823 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
824 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
825 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
826 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
828 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
829 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
830 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
831 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
832 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
833 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
835 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
836 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
838 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
839 =========================
844 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
847 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
849 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
850 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
851 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
853 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
854 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
856 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
857 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
858 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
860 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
862 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
863 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
864 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
865 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
866 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
867 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
872 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
873 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
876 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
879 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
881 Command Line Interface
882 ----------------------
884 Database revision tracking
886 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
887 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
888 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
889 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
891 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
893 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
894 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
895 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
896 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
897 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
898 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
899 manual page for further information.
904 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
906 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
907 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
909 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
911 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
912 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
913 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
915 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
917 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
919 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
920 customization as well.
922 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
924 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
926 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
928 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
930 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
931 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
932 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
933 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
935 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
937 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
938 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
939 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
940 this variable to 10000.
945 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
946 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
948 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
950 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
951 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
952 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
953 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
954 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
955 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
956 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
957 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
958 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
961 Database revision tracking
963 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
964 query parser and the new function
965 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
967 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
971 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
972 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
973 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
974 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
979 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
981 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
982 ===========================
987 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
989 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
990 ===========================
995 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
997 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
998 =========================
1000 Command-Line Interface
1001 ----------------------
1003 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1005 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1006 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1007 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1009 Path to gpg is now configurable
1011 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1012 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1017 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
1019 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1024 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1029 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1034 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1036 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1037 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1039 New error logging facility
1041 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1042 output formerly printed to stderr.
1044 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1046 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1048 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1050 Fix for rounding of seconds
1055 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1057 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1058 docmumentation has been removed.
1060 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1062 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1063 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1068 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1069 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1070 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1075 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1076 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1077 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1078 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1079 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1080 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1083 git checkout config origin/config
1085 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1087 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1088 =========================
1093 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1094 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1095 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1096 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1097 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1098 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1099 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1101 Command-Line Interface
1102 ----------------------
1104 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1106 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1107 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1108 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1109 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1110 script callers should still check the return value.
1112 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1114 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1115 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1116 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1117 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1118 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1119 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1120 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1122 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1124 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1125 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1126 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1128 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1130 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1131 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1132 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1133 currently unmaintained.
1135 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1137 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1138 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1139 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1140 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1142 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1144 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1145 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1146 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1147 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1148 count of duplicate addresses.
1153 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1155 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1156 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1157 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1160 Improved handling of the unread tag
1162 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1163 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1164 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1165 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1166 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1167 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1168 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1170 Expanded default saved search settings
1172 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1173 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1175 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1177 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1178 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1179 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1181 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1183 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1184 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1185 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1186 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1187 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1188 the variable for details.
1193 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1195 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1196 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1197 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1198 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1200 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1202 Previously, library users were required to call
1203 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1204 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1205 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1206 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1207 too out of date for that API.
1209 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1211 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1212 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1213 atomic section will be aborted.
1215 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1216 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1218 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1220 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1221 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1222 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1223 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1224 messages into the same thread.
1229 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1230 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1231 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1232 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1233 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1234 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1239 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1240 from the config file. Use something like:
1244 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1245 "footer": "</body></html>",
1254 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1259 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1260 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1261 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1263 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1264 ===========================
1269 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1271 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1273 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1275 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1276 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1278 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1280 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1283 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1284 ===========================
1286 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1291 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1293 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1295 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1297 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1299 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1305 Use --quick when starting emacs
1307 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1309 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1311 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1313 Command-Line Interface
1314 ----------------------
1316 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1317 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1322 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1324 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1325 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1327 Fix for phrase indexing
1329 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1330 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1331 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1336 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1338 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1339 unintentionally removed.
1341 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1342 =========================
1347 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1348 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1349 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1350 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1351 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1352 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1353 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1354 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1355 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1361 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1363 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1364 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1365 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1366 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1367 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1368 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1369 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1370 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1372 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1374 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1375 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1376 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1377 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1380 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1382 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1383 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1384 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1385 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1386 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1387 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1388 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1393 Notmuch database upgrade
1395 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1396 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1397 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1398 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1399 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1400 released version of Notmuch before now.
1402 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1404 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1405 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1406 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1407 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1409 Message header parsing changes
1411 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1412 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1413 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1414 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1415 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1416 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1418 Command-Line Interface
1419 ----------------------
1421 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1423 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1425 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1427 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1429 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1431 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1432 user does not want it.
1434 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1436 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1437 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1438 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1439 support formatted output.
1441 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1443 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1444 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1445 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1453 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1454 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1455 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1456 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1457 `~/.emacs` with these.
1459 Changed format for saved searches
1461 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1462 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1463 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1464 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1467 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1468 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1469 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1470 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1472 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1473 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1474 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1476 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1477 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1478 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1479 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1480 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1482 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1484 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1485 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1486 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1488 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1490 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1491 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1492 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1493 message had been unread).
1495 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1496 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1497 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1498 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1500 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1501 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1502 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1504 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1505 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1506 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1507 to tags already present.
1511 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1512 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1513 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1514 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1515 these differ from each other.
1516 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1518 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1520 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1521 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1522 for these Emacs versions.
1524 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1526 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1527 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1529 Bug fixes for sender identities
1531 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1532 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1533 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1535 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1537 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1538 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1539 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1540 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1542 Reply pushes mark before signature
1544 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1545 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1546 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1548 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1550 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1551 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1557 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1558 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1560 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1561 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1562 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1563 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1565 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1566 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1567 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1568 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1569 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1571 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1573 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1574 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1576 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1577 =========================
1579 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1580 ---------------------------------------
1582 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1583 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1584 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1585 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1586 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1587 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1588 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1592 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1593 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1595 Command-Line Interface
1596 ----------------------
1598 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1600 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1601 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1602 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1603 print for each message.
1605 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1606 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1607 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1608 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1610 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1612 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1613 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1614 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1616 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1618 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1619 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1620 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1621 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1623 `notmuch compact` command
1625 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1626 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1627 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1628 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1629 move the compacted database into place.
1634 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1636 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1637 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1638 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1639 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1640 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1641 and multiple threads.
1643 Using `notmuch-tree`
1645 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1647 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1648 search, show and tree mode itself)
1650 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1653 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1654 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1656 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1658 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1659 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1660 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1661 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1662 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1663 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1664 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1666 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1668 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1669 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1670 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1671 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1672 thread when the search was performed.
1674 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1676 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1677 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1678 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1680 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1682 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1683 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1686 Built-in help improvements
1688 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1689 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1690 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1692 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1694 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1695 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1696 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1698 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1700 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1701 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1703 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1705 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1706 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1707 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1708 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1710 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1712 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1713 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1714 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1715 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1717 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1719 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1720 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1721 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1723 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1725 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1726 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1727 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1729 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1731 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1732 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1733 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1734 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1735 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1737 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1739 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1740 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1741 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1742 the body part of the message.
1747 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1748 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1749 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1751 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1752 =========================
1754 Command-Line Interface
1755 ----------------------
1757 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1759 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1760 folder and notmuch index.
1762 `notmuch count --batch` option
1764 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1765 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1767 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1769 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1770 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1771 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1774 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1776 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1777 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1778 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1779 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1780 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1783 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1785 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1786 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1788 Top level option to specify configuration file
1790 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1791 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1793 Bash command-line completion
1795 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1796 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1797 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1798 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1799 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1800 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1801 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1802 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1803 bash-completion package.
1805 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1810 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1812 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1813 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1814 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1815 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1816 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1817 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1818 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1819 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1821 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1823 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1824 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1825 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1827 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1829 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1830 previous thread in the search results.
1832 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1834 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1835 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1837 Faster search and show
1839 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1840 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1841 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1842 threads should show faster.
1846 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1847 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1848 in question was now removed from this release.
1853 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1854 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1859 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1861 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1862 ===========================
1867 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1869 Internal test framework changes
1870 -------------------------------
1872 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1873 being unimplemented.
1875 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1876 ===========================
1878 Internal test framework changes
1879 -------------------------------
1881 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1882 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1884 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1885 =========================
1890 Date range search support
1892 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1893 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1894 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1895 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1896 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1899 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1901 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1902 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1903 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1904 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1905 but may be removed in a future release.
1907 Command-Line Interface
1908 ----------------------
1910 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1912 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1913 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1915 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1917 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1918 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1919 officially deprecated.
1921 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1923 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1924 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1925 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1927 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1929 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1930 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1933 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1934 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1935 dump/restore format.
1937 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1939 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1940 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1941 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1943 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1945 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1946 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1947 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1949 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1951 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1952 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1953 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1954 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1959 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1961 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1962 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1963 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1964 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1966 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1968 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1969 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1970 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1971 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1972 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1973 the behavior of this, see
1974 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1975 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1977 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1978 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1979 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1981 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1983 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1984 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1987 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1989 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1990 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1991 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1992 simply displayed in place of the message.
1994 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1996 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1997 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1999 Improved text/calendar content handling
2001 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2002 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2003 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2004 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2006 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2008 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2009 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2010 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2011 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2013 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2015 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2016 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2017 for HTML email containing images.
2019 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2021 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2023 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2025 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2028 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2030 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2031 the point where it was.
2033 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2035 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2036 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2037 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2038 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2039 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2041 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2043 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2044 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2045 thread instead of the message id.
2047 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2048 -----------------------------
2050 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2051 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2052 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2053 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2054 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2055 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2056 further details and installation.
2061 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2063 Internal test framework changes
2064 -------------------------------
2066 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2068 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2069 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2070 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2071 can result in buggy behavior.
2073 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2074 =========================
2079 Maildir tag synchronization
2081 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2082 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2083 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2084 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2085 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2086 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2089 Command-Line Interface
2090 ----------------------
2092 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2093 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2094 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2095 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2096 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2102 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2104 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2106 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2107 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2108 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2110 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2112 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2113 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2114 span multiple lines.
2116 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2118 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2119 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2120 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2121 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2122 inside the result or message.
2124 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2126 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2127 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2129 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2130 user-specified formatting
2132 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2133 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2134 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2135 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2136 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2138 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2139 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2141 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2142 ===========================
2147 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2148 compilation error for this contrib package.
2150 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2151 ===========================
2156 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2158 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2159 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2160 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2161 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2163 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2164 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2167 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2168 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2169 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2170 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2173 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2175 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2178 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2179 =========================
2181 Command-Line Interface
2182 ----------------------
2186 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2187 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2188 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2189 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2191 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2192 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2193 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2194 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2198 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2199 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2201 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2202 tag in your query, for example:
2204 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2206 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2207 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2209 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2210 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2212 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2214 Raw show format changes
2216 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2217 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2218 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2219 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2220 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2221 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2222 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2223 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2225 Listing configuration items
2227 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2233 Changes to tagging interface
2235 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2236 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2237 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2238 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2239 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2240 for more information.
2242 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2243 may need to update in custom configurations.
2245 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2247 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2248 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2249 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2250 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2253 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2254 -----------------------------
2256 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2257 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2258 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2259 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2260 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2261 contrib/ from now on.
2266 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2267 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2269 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2270 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2272 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2273 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2274 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2276 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2277 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2279 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2280 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2281 returning the new database object or directory object.
2288 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2289 compatible with go 1.
2291 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2292 =========================
2294 Command-Line Interface
2295 ----------------------
2299 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2300 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2301 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2302 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2304 Mail store folder/file ignore
2306 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2307 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2308 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2310 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2311 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2313 Unified help and manual pages
2315 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2316 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2319 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2321 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2322 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2330 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2331 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2332 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2333 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2335 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2337 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2338 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2340 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2343 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2344 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2345 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2347 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2349 should be changed to:
2351 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2353 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2355 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2356 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2358 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2360 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2361 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2362 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2363 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2364 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2365 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2369 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2370 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2371 of Mailing List Archives.
2373 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2375 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2376 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2379 Show view archiving key binding changes
2381 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2382 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2383 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2384 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2385 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2388 Support text/calendar MIME type
2390 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2393 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2395 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2396 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2397 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2398 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2400 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2402 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2403 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2404 messages blue by default in the search view.
2408 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2409 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2416 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2419 Python bindings changes
2420 -----------------------
2422 Python 3.2 compatibility
2424 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2426 Added missing unicode conversions
2428 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2429 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2430 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2435 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2437 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2438 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2439 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2440 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2441 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2443 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2444 ===========================
2449 Fix error handling in python bindings
2451 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2452 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2453 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2454 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2456 Quote MML tags in replies
2458 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2459 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2460 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2461 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2462 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2463 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2464 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2465 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2467 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2468 =========================
2470 Command-Line Interface
2471 ----------------------
2475 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2476 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2477 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2478 importing new messages into the database.
2480 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2482 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2483 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2484 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2489 Automatic tag query optimization
2491 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2492 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2493 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2495 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2497 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2498 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2499 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2504 Reduction of memory leaks
2506 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2507 and fixed in this release.
2514 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2515 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2516 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2519 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2521 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2522 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2523 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2526 Improvements in saved search management
2528 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2529 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2530 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2532 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2534 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2535 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2536 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2538 New face for crypto parts headers
2540 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2541 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2542 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2545 Use space as default thousands separator
2547 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2548 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2549 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2551 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2552 buttonized id: links
2554 New function notmuch-show-advance
2556 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2557 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2558 be bound to SPC with:
2560 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2562 Various performance improvements
2567 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2568 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2571 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2572 ===========================
2577 Fix crash in python bindings
2579 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2580 for some, but not all users.
2582 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2583 ===========================
2588 Fix `--help` argument
2590 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2591 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2592 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2594 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2595 =========================
2597 New build and testing features
2598 ------------------------------
2600 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2601 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2602 prerequisites is improved.
2604 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2606 New command-line features
2607 -------------------------
2609 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2611 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2612 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2615 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2617 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2618 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2619 favour of using stdout.
2621 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2623 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2624 limit the number of results shown.
2626 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2628 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2629 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2632 New emacs UI features
2633 ---------------------
2635 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2637 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2638 starting with "tag:".
2640 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2642 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2643 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2645 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2647 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2649 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2651 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2652 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2657 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2659 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2661 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2662 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2663 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2664 requires a database rebuild:
2666 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2667 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2669 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2671 New collection of add-on tools
2672 ------------------------------
2674 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2675 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2676 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2679 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2681 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2682 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2683 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2685 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2686 ========================
2688 New, general features
2689 ---------------------
2691 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2693 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2694 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2695 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2696 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2697 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2704 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2705 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2707 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2711 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2712 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2713 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2716 Python bindings changes
2717 -----------------------
2719 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2721 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2722 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2723 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2724 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2725 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2726 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2728 Ruby bindings changes
2729 ---------------------
2731 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2732 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2733 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2734 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2739 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2741 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2742 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2744 Reply formatting cleanup
2745 ------------------------
2747 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2748 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2750 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2751 ========================
2753 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2755 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2756 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2757 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2758 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2761 Improved Build system portability
2763 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2764 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2765 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2767 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2769 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2771 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2773 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2774 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2775 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2777 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2778 ========================
2780 Vim interface improvements
2781 --------------------------
2783 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2785 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2786 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2787 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2788 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2789 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2791 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2793 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2794 * fix compose temp file name
2796 Python Bindings changes
2797 -----------------------
2799 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2801 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2802 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2804 Build-System improvements
2805 -------------------------
2807 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2809 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2812 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2813 ==========================
2818 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2820 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2821 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2823 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2824 =======================
2826 New, general features
2827 ---------------------
2829 Folder-based searching
2831 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2832 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2833 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2837 For example, one might use things such as:
2843 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2844 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2846 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2847 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2848 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2849 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2851 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2852 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2853 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2856 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2857 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2859 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2861 Support for PGP/MIME
2863 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2864 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2865 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2867 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2869 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2870 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2872 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2873 notmuch will receive these tags.
2875 New command-line features
2876 -------------------------
2878 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2880 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2881 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2883 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2885 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2886 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2887 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2889 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2891 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2892 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2893 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2894 which parts a signature part applies).
2896 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2898 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2899 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2900 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2901 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2902 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2905 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2907 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2908 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2909 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2910 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2911 by translating it internally to the new call.
2913 Performance improvements
2914 ------------------------
2916 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2918 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2919 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2920 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2922 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2923 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2925 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2927 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2928 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2929 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2931 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2932 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2933 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2934 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2936 Faster initial indexing
2938 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2939 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2940 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2942 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2944 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2945 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2946 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2947 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2949 New emacs-interface features
2950 ----------------------------
2952 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2954 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2955 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2956 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2957 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2958 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2959 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2961 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2963 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2964 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2965 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2966 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2968 User-selectable From address
2970 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2971 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2972 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2973 will prompt for the from address to use.
2975 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2976 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2977 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2979 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2980 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2981 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2984 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2986 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2987 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2989 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2991 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2993 ----- Original Message -----
2995 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2996 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2997 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2998 citations work much like conventional citations.
3000 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3002 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3003 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3004 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3005 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3006 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3008 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3009 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3011 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3013 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3014 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3015 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3017 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3019 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3020 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3021 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3022 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3023 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3025 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3027 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3030 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3032 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3034 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3036 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3039 Vim interface improvements
3040 --------------------------
3042 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3044 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3045 * Implementing archive in show view
3046 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3047 * Add delete commands
3050 Bindings improvements
3051 ---------------------
3053 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3055 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3056 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3058 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3060 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3064 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3065 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3066 `list(Messages)` works now
3067 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3069 These allow, for example:
3071 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3073 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3075 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3081 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3083 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3086 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3088 New build-system features
3089 -------------------------
3091 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3093 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3094 the configure script from some other directory:
3101 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3103 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3104 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3105 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3106 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3107 manual invocation of configure.
3109 New test-suite feature
3110 ----------------------
3112 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3114 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3115 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3116 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3117 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3118 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3121 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3123 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3124 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3125 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3126 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3127 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3128 are updated to take advantage of this.
3130 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3132 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3133 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3134 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3135 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3141 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3143 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3144 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3145 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3147 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3149 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3151 to:user@elsewhere.com
3153 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3155 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3157 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3159 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3160 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3161 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3164 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3165 from the Received headers in some cases
3167 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3168 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3170 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3172 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3174 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3176 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3177 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3178 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3180 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3181 -------------------------
3183 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3185 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3186 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3187 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3189 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3191 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3192 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3193 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3196 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3198 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3199 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3200 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3201 fixed to avoid this bug.
3203 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3205 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3206 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3208 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3209 ========================
3211 New, general features
3212 ---------------------
3214 Maildir-flag synchronization
3216 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3217 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3226 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3228 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3229 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3230 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3231 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3233 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3234 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3235 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3236 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3239 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3241 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3242 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3243 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3245 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3246 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3248 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3249 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3251 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3252 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3253 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3255 New library features
3256 --------------------
3258 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3260 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3261 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3262 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3263 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3265 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3266 message with the new function:
3268 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3270 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3271 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3272 over all available filenames for a given message.
3274 New command-line features
3275 -------------------------
3277 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3279 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3280 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3281 access to the mail store itself.
3283 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3284 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3285 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3286 name of a script containing:
3288 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3290 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3291 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3297 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3299 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3301 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3303 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3304 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3305 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3306 now produces nothing).
3308 Emacs interface improvements
3309 ----------------------------
3311 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3313 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3315 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3317 Display current thread subject in a header line
3319 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3321 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3323 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3324 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3325 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3326 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3327 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3328 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3329 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3331 Vim interface improvements
3332 --------------------------
3334 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3336 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3337 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3343 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3345 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3346 ========================
3348 New command-line features
3349 -------------------------
3351 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3353 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3354 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3355 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3357 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3358 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3359 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3360 scripts. For example:
3362 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3363 <operations-on> "$file"
3366 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3368 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3369 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3370 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3371 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3372 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3373 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3375 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3377 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3378 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3379 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3380 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3382 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3384 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3385 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3386 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3387 default rather than Bcc.
3389 New library features
3390 --------------------
3392 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3394 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3395 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3400 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3402 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3403 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3404 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3405 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3406 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3407 notmuch customize interface.
3409 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3411 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3412 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3413 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3414 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3416 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3418 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3419 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3420 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3421 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3423 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3425 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3426 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3427 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3428 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3429 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3430 notmuch customize interface.
3432 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3434 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3435 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3436 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3437 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3438 notmuch customize interface.
3440 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3442 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3443 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3444 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3445 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3448 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3450 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3451 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3452 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3455 New build-system features
3456 -------------------------
3458 Various portability fixes have been applied
3460 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3461 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3462 more portable than ever before.
3464 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3466 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3467 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3468 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3470 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3471 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3472 automatically run ldconfig.
3474 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3475 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3476 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3478 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3479 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3480 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3481 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3483 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3485 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3486 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3487 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3488 used in the resulting Makefile.
3490 New test-suite features
3491 -----------------------
3493 New modularization of test suite
3495 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3496 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3497 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3498 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3499 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3500 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3501 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3502 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3504 New testing of emacs interface
3506 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3507 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3508 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3509 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3510 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3511 database via the FCC setting.
3516 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3518 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3519 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3520 persistent error of the form:
3522 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3524 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3525 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3527 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3529 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3530 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3531 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3533 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3535 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3536 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3537 parsing the notmuch results).
3539 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3541 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3544 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3545 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3546 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3551 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3553 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3554 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3555 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3556 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3557 the emacs interface.
3559 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3561 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3562 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3563 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3565 Python-binding fixes
3566 --------------------
3568 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3570 Debian-specific fixes
3571 ---------------------
3573 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3575 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3576 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3577 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3580 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3581 ==========================
3586 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3588 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3589 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3590 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3591 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3593 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3595 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3596 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3597 want notmuch to crash.
3602 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3604 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3605 directory does not exist
3610 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3612 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3613 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3615 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3616 ========================
3618 New command-line features
3619 -------------------------
3621 User-configurable tags for new messages
3623 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3624 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3625 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3626 to specify this value.
3628 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3630 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3631 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3632 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3634 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3636 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3637 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3639 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3641 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3642 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3643 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3644 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3645 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3648 Indication of author names that match a search
3650 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3651 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3652 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3653 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3654 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3655 messages in the thread are listed first.
3657 New: Python bindings
3658 --------------------
3660 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3661 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3662 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3663 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3665 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3666 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3667 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3670 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3671 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3672 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3674 Emacs interface improvements
3675 ----------------------------
3677 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3679 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3680 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3681 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3682 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3683 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3684 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3685 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3686 but without any of the disadvantages).
3688 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3689 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3690 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3693 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3694 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3695 instead running something like:
3697 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3699 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3700 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3701 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3704 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3706 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3707 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3708 tweaked by the user.
3710 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3711 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3712 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3715 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3716 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3717 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3720 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3722 This support currently relies on an external program,
3723 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3724 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3725 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3726 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3727 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3730 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3731 notmuch) is available via:
3733 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3735 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3736 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3737 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3739 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3741 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3742 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3743 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3744 making this automatic in a future release.
3746 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3748 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3749 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3750 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3751 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3752 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3753 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3756 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3758 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3759 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3760 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3762 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3764 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3765 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3766 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3768 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3769 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3770 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3771 other representation.
3773 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3774 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3777 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3779 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3780 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3781 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3783 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3784 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3785 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3787 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3789 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3790 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3791 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3792 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3793 to display the search result.
3795 More flexible handling of header visibility
3797 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3798 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3799 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3800 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3801 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3802 with the 'h' keybinding.
3804 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3805 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3806 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3808 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3810 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3812 Customizable formatting of search results
3814 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3815 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3816 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3818 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3820 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3822 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3827 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3829 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3830 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3831 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3832 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3838 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3840 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3841 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3843 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3845 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3846 accept are now all accepted.
3851 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3853 Better display of output from failed tests
3855 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3856 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3858 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3859 ========================
3861 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3862 detailed release notes this time!
3864 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3865 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3867 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3868 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3869 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3870 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3877 Better guessing of From: header
3879 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3880 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3881 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3882 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3883 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3886 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3888 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3889 guaranteed to match all messages.
3891 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3893 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3894 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3895 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3896 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3897 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3900 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3903 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3904 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3905 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3906 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3911 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3913 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3914 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3915 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3916 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3918 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3920 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3922 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3923 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3924 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3926 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3928 Previously, the user might see:
3930 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3934 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3936 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3937 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3938 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3939 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3941 Emacs client features
3942 ---------------------
3944 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3946 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3947 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3948 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3949 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3950 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3952 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3955 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3956 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3957 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3958 search with the '*' binding.
3960 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3962 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3963 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3966 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3968 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3969 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3970 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3972 Build-system features
3973 ---------------------
3975 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3977 Add support to configure for many standard options
3979 We include actual support for:
3981 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3983 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3985 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3986 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3988 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3989 separate "make install-emacs"
3991 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3993 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3994 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3995 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3997 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4000 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4001 ========================
4003 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4005 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4006 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4008 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4009 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4010 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4011 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4012 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4013 tags from messages in a thread.
4020 indent-tabs-mode: nil