1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
10 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
11 ===========================
16 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
17 by message properties.
22 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
24 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
25 ===========================
30 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
35 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
36 now needed to build this documentation.
38 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
39 ===========================
44 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
45 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
47 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
48 =========================
55 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
56 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
57 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
58 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
59 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
62 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
64 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
65 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
66 correct encoding for such messages.
68 Command Line Interface
69 ----------------------
71 Support relative database paths
73 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
74 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
75 to $HOME of the invoking user.
80 Improve stderr handling
82 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
85 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
87 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
92 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
93 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
99 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
100 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
106 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
107 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
110 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
111 =========================
116 Add support for thread:{} queries
118 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
119 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
120 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
122 Command Line Interface
123 ----------------------
125 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
127 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
129 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
131 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
132 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
133 does not have to be available during message receipt.
138 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
144 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
145 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
147 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
148 ===========================
153 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
155 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
156 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
157 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
159 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
161 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
162 related abort in `notmuch show`.
164 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
165 ===========================
170 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
171 better late than never.
174 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
175 =========================
177 Command Line Interface
178 ----------------------
180 Support for re-indexing existing messages
182 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
183 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
184 change the way specific messages are indexed.
186 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
187 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
188 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
190 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
192 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
194 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
196 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
197 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
198 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
199 the setting of `new.tags`.
201 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
203 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
205 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
207 This inserts into the top level folder.
209 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
211 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
213 New option --output=address for notmuch address
215 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
217 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
219 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
220 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
221 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
223 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
228 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
230 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
231 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
232 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
233 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
234 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
235 config set index.decrypt true".
237 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
238 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
239 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
240 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
241 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
242 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
243 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
244 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
246 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
247 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
248 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
249 this feature without considering the security of your index.
254 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
256 Use make-process when available
258 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
259 notmuch command without using temporary files.
264 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
266 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
267 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
268 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
269 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
271 New functions to count files
273 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
274 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
276 New function to remove properties
278 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
279 drop all properties with a common pattern:
280 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
282 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
284 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
285 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
286 possibility of NULL was not documented.
288 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
290 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
291 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
292 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
293 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
294 operator may decide to change from message to message.
301 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
302 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
303 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
309 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
311 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
312 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
314 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
316 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
318 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
320 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
325 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
326 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
328 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
329 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
330 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
331 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
332 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
333 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
338 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
340 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
341 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
342 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
343 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
345 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
346 ===========================
351 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
352 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
355 Command Line Interface
356 ----------------------
358 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
359 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
362 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
363 ===========================
365 Command Line Interface
366 ----------------------
368 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
369 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
374 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
377 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
378 ===========================
383 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
386 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
387 =========================
392 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
394 Skip HTML tags when indexing
396 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
398 Command Line Interface
399 ----------------------
401 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
403 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
408 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
410 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
411 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
414 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
419 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
421 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
422 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
424 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
426 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
427 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
430 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
432 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
434 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
436 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
437 ===========================
439 Command Line Interface
440 ----------------------
442 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
447 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
449 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
450 ===========================
455 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
457 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
458 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
461 Command Line Interface
462 ----------------------
464 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
466 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
468 Fix bug in dump header
470 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
471 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
472 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
477 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
479 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
480 =========================
485 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
487 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
490 Command Line Interface
491 ----------------------
493 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
495 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
496 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
497 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
499 New default output format to 3
501 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
502 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
503 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
504 default format changes.
509 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
511 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
512 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
513 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
514 or tree view to resume.
516 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
517 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
518 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
521 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
522 they were when you postponed in the final message.
526 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
527 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
528 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
529 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
530 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
534 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
535 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
536 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
537 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
538 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
539 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
543 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
544 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
546 Stop display of `application/*` parts
548 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
549 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
550 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
551 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
552 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
553 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
554 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
555 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
558 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
560 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
561 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
562 only tagged the current thread.)
564 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
566 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
567 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
568 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
570 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
572 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
573 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
574 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
575 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
576 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
577 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
578 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
580 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
582 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
583 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
584 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
589 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
591 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
594 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
596 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
599 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
600 ===========================
605 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
607 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
608 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
609 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
612 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
613 ===========================
615 Command Line Interface
616 ----------------------
618 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
623 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
625 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
626 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
627 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
629 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
630 ===========================
635 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
636 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
638 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
639 ===========================
641 Command Line Interface
642 ----------------------
644 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
646 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
647 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
648 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
653 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
655 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
656 ===========================
658 Command Line Interface
659 ----------------------
661 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
666 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
668 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
669 ===========================
674 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
676 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
677 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
678 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
680 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
682 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
684 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
685 ===========================
690 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
692 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
697 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
699 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
700 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
701 the original colours.
703 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
704 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
706 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
708 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
709 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
710 bug, and hence the test.
712 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
713 =========================
715 General (Xapian 1.4+)
716 ---------------------
718 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
720 Support for single argument date: queries
722 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
724 Support for blocking opens
726 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
727 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
729 Support for named queries
731 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
732 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
733 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
740 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
741 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
742 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
743 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
745 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
747 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
752 Support for compile time options
754 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
755 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
758 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
760 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
761 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
762 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
763 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
764 scripts to ignore it.
769 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
771 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
772 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
773 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
775 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
776 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
777 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
778 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
779 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
780 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
781 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
783 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
784 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
787 Make internal address completion customizable
789 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
790 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
791 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
792 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
795 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
797 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
798 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
799 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
800 completion for the current buffer.
802 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
803 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
804 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
808 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
809 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
810 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
811 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
812 will be added instead.
814 Face customization is easier
816 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
817 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
818 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
819 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
821 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
826 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
831 Go bindings moved to contrib
833 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
835 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
837 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
838 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
840 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
842 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
843 ===========================
850 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
851 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
853 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
855 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
857 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
858 ===========================
863 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
865 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
870 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
875 Use `env` to locate perl.
880 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
882 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
884 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
886 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
888 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
889 =========================
896 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
897 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
899 Limited support for S/MIME messages
901 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
902 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
903 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
908 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
909 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
910 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
912 Command Line Interface
913 ----------------------
915 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
917 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
922 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
927 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
929 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
930 parts are now included in replies.
932 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
933 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
934 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
935 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
937 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
939 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
941 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
943 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
944 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
945 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
946 forwards only the current message.
948 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
950 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
951 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
952 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
953 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
954 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
955 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
956 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
957 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
960 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
961 longer generate empty buffers
963 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
964 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
965 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
966 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
967 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
969 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
971 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
974 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
976 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
979 Address completion improvements
981 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
982 you previously configured one, customize the variable
983 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
984 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
985 interactive address completion.
987 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
989 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
990 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
991 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
996 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
997 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
998 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1004 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1005 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1006 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1007 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1008 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1009 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1011 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1012 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1013 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1014 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1015 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1016 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1018 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1019 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1021 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1022 =========================
1027 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1030 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1032 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1033 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1034 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1036 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1037 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1039 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1040 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1041 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1043 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1045 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1046 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1047 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1048 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1049 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1050 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1055 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1056 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1059 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1060 option to configure.
1062 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1064 Command Line Interface
1065 ----------------------
1067 Database revision tracking
1069 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1070 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1071 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1072 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1074 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1076 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1077 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1078 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1079 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1080 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1081 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1082 manual page for further information.
1087 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1089 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1090 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1092 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1094 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1095 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1096 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1098 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1100 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1102 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1103 customization as well.
1105 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1107 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1109 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1111 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1113 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1114 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1115 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1116 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1118 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1120 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1121 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1122 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1123 this variable to 10000.
1128 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1129 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1131 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1133 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1134 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1135 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1136 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1137 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1138 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1139 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1140 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1141 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1144 Database revision tracking
1146 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1147 query parser and the new function
1148 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1150 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1152 Deprecated functions
1154 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1155 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1156 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1157 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1162 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1164 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1165 ===========================
1170 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1172 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1173 ===========================
1178 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1180 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1181 =========================
1183 Command-Line Interface
1184 ----------------------
1186 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1188 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1189 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1190 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1192 Path to gpg is now configurable
1194 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1195 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1200 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1202 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1207 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1212 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1217 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1219 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1220 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1222 New error logging facility
1224 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1225 output formerly printed to stderr.
1227 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1229 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1231 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1233 Fix for rounding of seconds
1238 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1240 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1241 documentation has been removed.
1243 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1245 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1246 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1251 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1252 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1253 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1258 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1259 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1260 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1261 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1262 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1263 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1266 git checkout config origin/config
1268 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1270 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1271 =========================
1276 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1277 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1278 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1279 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1280 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1281 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1282 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1284 Command-Line Interface
1285 ----------------------
1287 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1289 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1290 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1291 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1292 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1293 script callers should still check the return value.
1295 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1297 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1298 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1299 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1300 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1301 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1302 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1303 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1305 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1307 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1308 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1309 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1311 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1313 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1314 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1315 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1316 currently unmaintained.
1318 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1320 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1321 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1322 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1323 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1325 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1327 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1328 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1329 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1330 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1331 count of duplicate addresses.
1336 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1338 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1339 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1340 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1343 Improved handling of the unread tag
1345 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1346 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1347 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1348 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1349 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1350 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1351 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1353 Expanded default saved search settings
1355 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1356 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1358 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1360 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1361 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1362 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1364 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1366 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1367 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1368 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1369 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1370 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1371 the variable for details.
1376 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1378 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1379 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1380 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1381 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1383 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1385 Previously, library users were required to call
1386 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1387 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1388 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1389 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1390 too out of date for that API.
1392 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1394 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1395 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1396 atomic section will be aborted.
1398 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1399 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1401 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1403 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1404 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1405 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1406 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1407 messages into the same thread.
1412 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1413 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1414 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1415 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1416 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1417 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1422 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1423 from the config file. Use something like:
1427 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1428 "footer": "</body></html>",
1437 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1442 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1443 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1444 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1446 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1447 ===========================
1452 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1454 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1456 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1458 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1459 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1461 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1463 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1466 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1467 ===========================
1469 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1474 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1476 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1478 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1480 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1482 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1488 Use --quick when starting emacs
1490 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1492 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1494 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1496 Command-Line Interface
1497 ----------------------
1499 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1500 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1505 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1507 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1508 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1510 Fix for phrase indexing
1512 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1513 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1514 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1519 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1521 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1522 unintentionally removed.
1524 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1525 =========================
1530 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1531 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1532 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1533 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1534 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1535 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1536 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1537 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1538 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1544 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1546 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1547 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1548 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1549 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1550 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1551 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1552 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1553 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1555 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1557 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1558 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1559 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1560 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1563 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1565 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1566 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1567 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1568 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1569 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1570 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1571 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1576 Notmuch database upgrade
1578 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1579 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1580 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1581 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1582 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1583 released version of Notmuch before now.
1585 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1587 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1588 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1589 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1590 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1592 Message header parsing changes
1594 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1595 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1596 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1597 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1598 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1599 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1601 Command-Line Interface
1602 ----------------------
1604 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1606 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1608 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1610 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1612 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1614 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1615 user does not want it.
1617 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1619 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1620 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1621 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1622 support formatted output.
1624 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1626 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1627 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1628 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1636 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1637 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1638 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1639 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1640 `~/.emacs` with these.
1642 Changed format for saved searches
1644 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1645 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1646 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1647 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1650 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1651 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1652 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1653 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1655 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1656 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1657 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1659 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1660 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1661 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1662 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1663 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1665 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1667 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1668 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1669 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1671 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1673 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1674 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1675 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1676 message had been unread).
1678 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1679 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1680 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1681 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1683 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1684 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1685 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1687 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1688 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1689 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1690 to tags already present.
1694 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1695 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1696 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1697 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1698 these differ from each other.
1699 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1701 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1703 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1704 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1705 for these Emacs versions.
1707 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1709 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1710 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1712 Bug fixes for sender identities
1714 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1715 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1716 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1718 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1720 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1721 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1722 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1723 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1725 Reply pushes mark before signature
1727 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1728 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1729 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1731 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1733 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1734 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1740 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1741 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1743 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1744 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1745 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1746 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1748 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1749 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1750 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1751 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1752 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1754 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1756 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1757 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1759 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1760 =========================
1762 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1763 ---------------------------------------
1765 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1766 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1767 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1768 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1769 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1770 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1771 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1775 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1776 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1778 Command-Line Interface
1779 ----------------------
1781 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1783 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1784 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1785 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1786 print for each message.
1788 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1789 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1790 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1791 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1793 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1795 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1796 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1797 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1799 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1801 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1802 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1803 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1804 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1806 `notmuch compact` command
1808 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1809 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1810 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1811 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1812 move the compacted database into place.
1817 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1819 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1820 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1821 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1822 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1823 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1824 and multiple threads.
1826 Using `notmuch-tree`
1828 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1830 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1831 search, show and tree mode itself)
1833 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1836 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1837 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1839 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1841 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1842 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1843 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1844 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1845 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1846 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1847 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1849 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1851 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1852 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1853 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1854 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1855 thread when the search was performed.
1857 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1859 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1860 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1861 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1863 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1865 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1866 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1869 Built-in help improvements
1871 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1872 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1873 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1875 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1877 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1878 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1879 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1881 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1883 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1884 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1886 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1888 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1889 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1890 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1891 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1893 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1895 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1896 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1897 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1898 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1900 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1902 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1903 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1904 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1906 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1908 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1909 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1910 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1912 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1914 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1915 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1916 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1917 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1918 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1920 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1922 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1923 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1924 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1925 the body part of the message.
1930 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1931 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1932 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1934 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1935 =========================
1937 Command-Line Interface
1938 ----------------------
1940 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1942 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1943 folder and notmuch index.
1945 `notmuch count --batch` option
1947 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1948 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1950 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1952 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1953 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1954 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1957 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1959 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1960 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1961 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1962 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1963 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1966 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1968 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1969 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1971 Top level option to specify configuration file
1973 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1974 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1976 Bash command-line completion
1978 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1979 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1980 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1981 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1982 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1983 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1984 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1985 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1986 bash-completion package.
1988 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1993 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1995 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1996 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1997 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1998 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1999 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2000 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2001 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2002 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2004 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2006 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2007 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2008 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2010 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2012 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2013 previous thread in the search results.
2015 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2017 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2018 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2020 Faster search and show
2022 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2023 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2024 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2025 threads should show faster.
2029 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2030 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2031 in question was now removed from this release.
2036 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2037 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2042 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2044 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2045 ===========================
2050 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2052 Internal test framework changes
2053 -------------------------------
2055 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2056 being unimplemented.
2058 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2059 ===========================
2061 Internal test framework changes
2062 -------------------------------
2064 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2065 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2067 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2068 =========================
2073 Date range search support
2075 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2076 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2077 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2078 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2079 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2082 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2084 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2085 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2086 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2087 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2088 but may be removed in a future release.
2090 Command-Line Interface
2091 ----------------------
2093 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2095 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2096 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2098 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2100 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2101 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2102 officially deprecated.
2104 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2106 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2107 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2108 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2110 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2112 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2113 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2116 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2117 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2118 dump/restore format.
2120 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2122 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2123 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2124 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2126 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2128 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2129 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2130 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2132 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2134 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2135 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2136 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2137 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2142 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2144 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2145 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2146 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2147 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2149 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2151 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2152 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2153 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2154 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2155 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2156 the behavior of this, see
2157 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2158 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2160 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2161 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2162 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2164 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2166 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2167 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2170 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2172 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2173 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2174 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2175 simply displayed in place of the message.
2177 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2179 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2180 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2182 Improved text/calendar content handling
2184 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2185 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2186 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2187 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2189 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2191 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2192 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2193 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2194 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2196 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2198 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2199 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2200 for HTML email containing images.
2202 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2204 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2206 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2208 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2211 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2213 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2214 the point where it was.
2216 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2218 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2219 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2220 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2221 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2222 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2224 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2226 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2227 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2228 thread instead of the message id.
2230 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2231 -----------------------------
2233 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2234 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2235 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2236 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2237 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2238 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2239 further details and installation.
2244 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2246 Internal test framework changes
2247 -------------------------------
2249 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2251 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2252 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2253 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2254 can result in buggy behavior.
2256 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2257 =========================
2262 Maildir tag synchronization
2264 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2265 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2266 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2267 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2268 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2269 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2272 Command-Line Interface
2273 ----------------------
2275 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2276 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2277 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2278 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2279 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2285 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2287 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2289 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2290 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2291 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2293 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2295 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2296 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2297 span multiple lines.
2299 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2301 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2302 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2303 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2304 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2305 inside the result or message.
2307 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2309 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2310 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2312 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2313 user-specified formatting
2315 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2316 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2317 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2318 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2319 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2321 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2322 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2324 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2325 ===========================
2330 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2331 compilation error for this contrib package.
2333 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2334 ===========================
2339 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2341 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2342 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2343 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2344 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2346 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2347 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2350 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2351 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2352 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2353 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2356 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2358 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2361 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2362 =========================
2364 Command-Line Interface
2365 ----------------------
2369 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2370 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2371 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2372 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2374 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2375 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2376 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2377 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2381 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2382 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2384 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2385 tag in your query, for example:
2387 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2389 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2390 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2392 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2393 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2395 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2397 Raw show format changes
2399 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2400 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2401 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2402 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2403 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2404 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2405 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2406 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2408 Listing configuration items
2410 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2416 Changes to tagging interface
2418 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2419 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2420 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2421 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2422 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2423 for more information.
2425 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2426 may need to update in custom configurations.
2428 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2430 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2431 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2432 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2433 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2436 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2437 -----------------------------
2439 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2440 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2441 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2442 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2443 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2444 contrib/ from now on.
2449 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2450 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2452 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2453 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2455 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2456 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2457 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2459 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2460 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2462 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2463 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2464 returning the new database object or directory object.
2471 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2472 compatible with go 1.
2474 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2475 =========================
2477 Command-Line Interface
2478 ----------------------
2482 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2483 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2484 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2485 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2487 Mail store folder/file ignore
2489 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2490 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2491 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2493 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2494 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2496 Unified help and manual pages
2498 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2499 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2502 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2504 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2505 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2513 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2514 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2515 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2516 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2518 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2520 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2521 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2523 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2526 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2527 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2528 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2530 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2532 should be changed to:
2534 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2536 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2538 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2539 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2541 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2543 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2544 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2545 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2546 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2547 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2548 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2552 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2553 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2554 of Mailing List Archives.
2556 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2558 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2559 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2562 Show view archiving key binding changes
2564 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2565 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2566 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2567 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2568 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2571 Support text/calendar MIME type
2573 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2576 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2578 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2579 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2580 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2581 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2583 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2585 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2586 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2587 messages blue by default in the search view.
2591 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2592 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2599 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2602 Python bindings changes
2603 -----------------------
2605 Python 3.2 compatibility
2607 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2609 Added missing unicode conversions
2611 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2612 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2613 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2618 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2620 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2621 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2622 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2623 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2624 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2626 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2627 ===========================
2632 Fix error handling in python bindings
2634 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2635 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2636 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2637 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2639 Quote MML tags in replies
2641 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2642 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2643 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2644 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2645 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2646 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2647 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2648 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2650 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2651 =========================
2653 Command-Line Interface
2654 ----------------------
2658 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2659 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2660 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2661 importing new messages into the database.
2663 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2665 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2666 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2667 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2672 Automatic tag query optimization
2674 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2675 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2676 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2678 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2680 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2681 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2682 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2687 Reduction of memory leaks
2689 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2690 and fixed in this release.
2697 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2698 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2699 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2702 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2704 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2705 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2706 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2709 Improvements in saved search management
2711 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2712 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2713 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2715 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2717 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2718 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2719 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2721 New face for crypto parts headers
2723 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2724 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2725 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2728 Use space as default thousands separator
2730 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2731 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2732 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2734 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2735 buttonized id: links
2737 New function notmuch-show-advance
2739 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2740 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2741 be bound to SPC with:
2743 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2745 Various performance improvements
2750 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2751 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2754 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2755 ===========================
2760 Fix crash in python bindings
2762 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2763 for some, but not all users.
2765 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2766 ===========================
2771 Fix `--help` argument
2773 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2774 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2775 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2777 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2778 =========================
2780 New build and testing features
2781 ------------------------------
2783 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2784 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2785 prerequisites is improved.
2787 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2789 New command-line features
2790 -------------------------
2792 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2794 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2795 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2798 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2800 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2801 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2802 favour of using stdout.
2804 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2806 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2807 limit the number of results shown.
2809 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2811 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2812 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2815 New emacs UI features
2816 ---------------------
2818 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2820 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2821 starting with "tag:".
2823 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2825 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2826 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2828 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2830 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2832 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2834 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2835 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2840 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2842 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2844 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2845 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2846 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2847 requires a database rebuild:
2849 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2850 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2852 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2854 New collection of add-on tools
2855 ------------------------------
2857 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2858 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2859 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2862 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2864 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2865 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2866 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2868 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2869 ========================
2871 New, general features
2872 ---------------------
2874 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2876 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2877 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2878 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2879 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2880 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2887 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2888 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2890 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2894 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2895 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2896 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2899 Python bindings changes
2900 -----------------------
2902 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2904 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2905 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2906 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2907 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2908 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2909 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2911 Ruby bindings changes
2912 ---------------------
2914 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2915 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2916 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2917 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2922 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2924 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2925 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2927 Reply formatting cleanup
2928 ------------------------
2930 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2931 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2933 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2934 ========================
2936 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2938 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2939 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2940 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2941 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2944 Improved Build system portability
2946 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2947 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2948 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2950 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2952 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2954 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2956 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2957 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2958 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2960 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2961 ========================
2963 Vim interface improvements
2964 --------------------------
2966 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2968 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2969 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2970 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2971 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2972 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2974 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2976 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2977 * fix compose temp file name
2979 Python Bindings changes
2980 -----------------------
2982 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2984 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2985 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2987 Build-System improvements
2988 -------------------------
2990 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2992 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2995 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2996 ==========================
3001 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3003 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3004 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3006 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3007 =======================
3009 New, general features
3010 ---------------------
3012 Folder-based searching
3014 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3015 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3016 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3020 For example, one might use things such as:
3026 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3027 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3029 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3030 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3031 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3032 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3034 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3035 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3036 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3039 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3040 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3042 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3044 Support for PGP/MIME
3046 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3047 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3048 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3050 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3052 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3053 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3055 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3056 notmuch will receive these tags.
3058 New command-line features
3059 -------------------------
3061 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3063 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3064 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3066 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3068 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3069 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3070 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3072 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3074 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3075 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3076 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3077 which parts a signature part applies).
3079 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3081 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3082 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3083 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3084 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3085 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3088 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3090 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3091 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3092 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3093 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3094 by translating it internally to the new call.
3096 Performance improvements
3097 ------------------------
3099 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3101 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3102 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3103 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3105 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3106 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3108 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3110 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3111 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3112 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3114 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3115 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3116 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3117 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3119 Faster initial indexing
3121 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3122 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3123 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3125 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3127 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3128 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3129 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3130 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3132 New emacs-interface features
3133 ----------------------------
3135 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3137 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3138 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3139 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3140 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3141 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3142 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3144 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3146 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3147 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3148 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3149 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3151 User-selectable From address
3153 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3154 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3155 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3156 will prompt for the from address to use.
3158 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3159 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3160 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3162 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3163 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3164 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3167 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3169 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3170 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3172 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3174 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3176 ----- Original Message -----
3178 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3179 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3180 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3181 citations work much like conventional citations.
3183 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3185 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3186 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3187 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3188 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3189 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3191 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3192 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3194 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3196 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3197 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3198 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3200 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3202 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3203 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3204 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3205 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3206 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3208 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3210 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3213 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3215 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3217 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3219 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3222 Vim interface improvements
3223 --------------------------
3225 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3227 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3228 * Implementing archive in show view
3229 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3230 * Add delete commands
3233 Bindings improvements
3234 ---------------------
3236 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3238 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3239 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3241 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3243 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3247 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3248 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3249 `list(Messages)` works now
3250 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3252 These allow, for example:
3254 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3256 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3258 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3264 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3266 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3269 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3271 New build-system features
3272 -------------------------
3274 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3276 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3277 the configure script from some other directory:
3284 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3286 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3287 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3288 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3289 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3290 manual invocation of configure.
3292 New test-suite feature
3293 ----------------------
3295 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3297 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3298 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3299 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3300 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3301 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3304 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3306 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3307 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3308 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3309 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3310 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3311 are updated to take advantage of this.
3313 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3315 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3316 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3317 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3318 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3324 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3326 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3327 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3328 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3330 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3332 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3334 to:user@elsewhere.com
3336 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3338 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3340 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3342 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3343 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3344 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3347 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3348 from the Received headers in some cases
3350 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3351 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3353 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3355 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3357 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3359 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3360 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3361 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3363 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3364 -------------------------
3366 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3368 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3369 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3370 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3372 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3374 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3375 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3376 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3379 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3381 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3382 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3383 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3384 fixed to avoid this bug.
3386 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3388 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3389 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3391 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3392 ========================
3394 New, general features
3395 ---------------------
3397 Maildir-flag synchronization
3399 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3400 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3409 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3411 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3412 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3413 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3414 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3416 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3417 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3418 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3419 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3422 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3424 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3425 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3426 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3428 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3429 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3431 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3432 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3434 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3435 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3436 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3438 New library features
3439 --------------------
3441 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3443 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3444 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3445 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3446 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3448 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3449 message with the new function:
3451 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3453 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3454 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3455 over all available filenames for a given message.
3457 New command-line features
3458 -------------------------
3460 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3462 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3463 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3464 access to the mail store itself.
3466 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3467 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3468 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3469 name of a script containing:
3471 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3473 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3474 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3480 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3482 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3484 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3486 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3487 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3488 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3489 now produces nothing).
3491 Emacs interface improvements
3492 ----------------------------
3494 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3496 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3498 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3500 Display current thread subject in a header line
3502 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3504 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3506 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3507 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3508 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3509 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3510 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3511 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3512 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3514 Vim interface improvements
3515 --------------------------
3517 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3519 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3520 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3526 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3528 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3529 ========================
3531 New command-line features
3532 -------------------------
3534 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3536 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3537 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3538 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3540 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3541 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3542 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3543 scripts. For example:
3545 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3546 <operations-on> "$file"
3549 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3551 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3552 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3553 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3554 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3555 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3556 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3558 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3560 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3561 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3562 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3563 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3565 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3567 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3568 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3569 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3570 default rather than Bcc.
3572 New library features
3573 --------------------
3575 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3577 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3578 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3583 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3585 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3586 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3587 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3588 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3589 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3590 notmuch customize interface.
3592 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3594 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3595 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3596 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3597 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3599 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3601 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3602 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3603 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3604 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3606 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3608 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3609 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3610 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3611 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3612 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3613 notmuch customize interface.
3615 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3617 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3618 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3619 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3620 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3621 notmuch customize interface.
3623 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3625 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3626 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3627 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3628 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3631 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3633 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3634 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3635 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3638 New build-system features
3639 -------------------------
3641 Various portability fixes have been applied
3643 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3644 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3645 more portable than ever before.
3647 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3649 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3650 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3651 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3653 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3654 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3655 automatically run ldconfig.
3657 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3658 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3659 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3661 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3662 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3663 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3664 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3666 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3668 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3669 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3670 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3671 used in the resulting Makefile.
3673 New test-suite features
3674 -----------------------
3676 New modularization of test suite
3678 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3679 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3680 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3681 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3682 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3683 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3684 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3685 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3687 New testing of emacs interface
3689 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3690 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3691 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3692 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3693 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3694 database via the FCC setting.
3699 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3701 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3702 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3703 persistent error of the form:
3705 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3707 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3708 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3710 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3712 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3713 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3714 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3716 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3718 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3719 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3720 parsing the notmuch results).
3722 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3724 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3727 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3728 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3729 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3734 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3736 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3737 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3738 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3739 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3740 the emacs interface.
3742 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3744 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3745 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3746 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3748 Python-binding fixes
3749 --------------------
3751 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3753 Debian-specific fixes
3754 ---------------------
3756 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3758 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3759 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3760 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3763 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3764 ==========================
3769 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3771 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3772 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3773 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3774 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3776 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3778 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3779 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3780 want notmuch to crash.
3785 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3787 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3788 directory does not exist
3793 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3795 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3796 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3798 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3799 ========================
3801 New command-line features
3802 -------------------------
3804 User-configurable tags for new messages
3806 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3807 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3808 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3809 to specify this value.
3811 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3813 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3814 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3815 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3817 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3819 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3820 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3822 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3824 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3825 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3826 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3827 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3828 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3831 Indication of author names that match a search
3833 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3834 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3835 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3836 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3837 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3838 messages in the thread are listed first.
3840 New: Python bindings
3841 --------------------
3843 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3844 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3845 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3846 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3848 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3849 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3850 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3853 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3854 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3855 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3857 Emacs interface improvements
3858 ----------------------------
3860 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3862 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3863 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3864 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3865 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3866 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3867 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3868 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3869 but without any of the disadvantages).
3871 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3872 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3873 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3876 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3877 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3878 instead running something like:
3880 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3882 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3883 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3884 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3887 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3889 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3890 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3891 tweaked by the user.
3893 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3894 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3895 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3898 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3899 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3900 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3903 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3905 This support currently relies on an external program,
3906 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3907 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3908 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3909 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3910 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3913 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3914 notmuch) is available via:
3916 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3918 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3919 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3920 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3922 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3924 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3925 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3926 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3927 making this automatic in a future release.
3929 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3931 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3932 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3933 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3934 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3935 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3936 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3939 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3941 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3942 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3943 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3945 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3947 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3948 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3949 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3951 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3952 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3953 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3954 other representation.
3956 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3957 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3960 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3962 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3963 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3964 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3966 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3967 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3968 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3970 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3972 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3973 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3974 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3975 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3976 to display the search result.
3978 More flexible handling of header visibility
3980 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3981 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3982 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3983 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3984 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3985 with the 'h' keybinding.
3987 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3988 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3989 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3991 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3993 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3995 Customizable formatting of search results
3997 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3998 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3999 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4001 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4003 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4005 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4010 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4012 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4013 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4014 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4015 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4021 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4023 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4024 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4026 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4028 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4029 accept are now all accepted.
4034 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4036 Better display of output from failed tests
4038 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4039 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4041 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4042 ========================
4044 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4045 detailed release notes this time!
4047 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4048 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4050 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4051 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4052 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4053 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4060 Better guessing of From: header
4062 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4063 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4064 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4065 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4066 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4069 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4071 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4072 guaranteed to match all messages.
4074 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4076 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4077 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4078 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4079 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4080 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4083 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4086 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4087 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4088 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4089 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4094 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4096 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4097 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4098 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4099 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4101 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4103 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4105 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4106 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4107 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4109 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4111 Previously, the user might see:
4113 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4117 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4119 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4120 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4121 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4122 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4124 Emacs client features
4125 ---------------------
4127 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4129 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4130 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4131 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4132 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4133 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4135 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4138 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4139 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4140 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4141 search with the '*' binding.
4143 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4145 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4146 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4149 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4151 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4152 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4153 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4155 Build-system features
4156 ---------------------
4158 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4160 Add support to configure for many standard options
4162 We include actual support for:
4164 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4166 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4168 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4169 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4171 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4172 separate "make install-emacs"
4174 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4176 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4177 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4178 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4180 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4183 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4184 ========================
4186 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4188 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4189 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4191 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4192 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4193 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4194 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4195 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4196 tags from messages in a thread.
4203 indent-tabs-mode: nil