1 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
2 =========================
7 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
9 Skip HTML tags when indexing
11 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
18 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
23 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
25 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
26 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
29 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
34 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
36 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
37 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
39 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
41 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
42 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
45 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
47 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
49 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
51 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
52 ===========================
54 Command Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
62 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
64 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
65 ===========================
70 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
72 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
73 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
76 Command Line Interface
77 ----------------------
79 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
81 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
83 Fix bug in dump header
85 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
86 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
87 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
92 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
94 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
95 =========================
100 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
102 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
105 Command Line Interface
106 ----------------------
108 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
110 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
111 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
112 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
114 New default output format to 3
116 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
117 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
118 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
119 default format changes.
124 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
126 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
127 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
128 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
129 or tree view to resume.
131 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
132 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
133 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
136 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
137 they were when you postponed in the final message.
141 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
142 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
143 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
144 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
145 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
149 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
150 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
151 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
152 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
153 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
154 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
158 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
159 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
161 Stop display of `application/*` parts
163 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
164 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
165 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
166 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
167 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
168 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
169 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
170 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
173 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
175 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
176 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
177 only tagged the current thread.)
179 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
181 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
182 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
183 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
185 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
187 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
188 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
189 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
190 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
191 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
192 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
193 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
195 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
197 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
198 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
199 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
204 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
206 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
209 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
211 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
214 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
215 ===========================
220 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
222 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
223 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
224 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
227 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
228 ===========================
230 Command Line Interface
231 ----------------------
233 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
238 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
240 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
241 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
242 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
244 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
245 ===========================
250 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
251 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
253 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
254 ===========================
256 Command Line Interface
257 ----------------------
259 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
261 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
262 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
263 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
268 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
270 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
271 ===========================
273 Command Line Interface
274 ----------------------
276 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
281 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
283 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
284 ===========================
289 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
291 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
292 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
293 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
295 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
297 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
299 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
300 ===========================
305 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
307 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
312 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
314 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
315 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
316 the original colours.
318 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
319 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
321 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
323 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
324 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
325 bug, and hence the test.
327 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
328 =========================
330 General (Xapian 1.4+)
331 ---------------------
333 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
335 Support for single argument date: queries
337 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
339 Support for blocking opens
341 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
342 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
344 Support for named queries
346 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
347 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
348 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
355 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
356 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
357 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
358 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
360 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
362 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
367 Support for compile time options
369 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
370 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
373 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
375 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
376 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
377 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
378 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
379 scripts to ignore it.
384 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
386 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
387 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
388 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
390 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
391 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
392 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
393 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
394 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
395 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
396 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
398 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
399 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
402 Make internal address completion customizable
404 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
405 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
406 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
407 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
410 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
412 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
413 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
414 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
415 completion for the current buffer.
417 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
418 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
419 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
423 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
424 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
425 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
426 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
427 will be added instead.
429 Face customization is easier
431 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
432 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
433 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
434 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
436 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
441 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
446 Go bindings moved to contrib
448 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
450 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
452 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
453 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
455 The same issue occured with sort modes.
457 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
458 ===========================
465 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
466 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
468 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
470 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
472 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
473 ===========================
478 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
480 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
485 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
490 Use `env` to locate perl.
495 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
497 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
499 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
501 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
503 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
504 =========================
511 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
512 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
514 Limited support for S/MIME messages
516 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
517 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
518 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
523 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
524 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
525 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
527 Command Line Interface
528 ----------------------
530 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
532 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
537 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
542 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
544 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
545 parts are now included in replies.
547 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
548 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
549 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
550 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
552 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
554 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
556 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
558 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
559 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
560 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
561 forwards only the current message.
563 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
565 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
566 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
567 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
568 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
569 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
570 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
571 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
572 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
575 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
576 longer generate empty buffers
578 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
579 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
580 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
581 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
582 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
584 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
586 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
589 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
591 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
594 Address completion improvements
596 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
597 you previously configured one, customize the variable
598 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
599 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
600 interactive address completion.
602 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
604 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
605 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
606 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
611 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
612 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
613 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
619 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
620 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
621 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
622 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
623 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
624 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
626 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
627 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
628 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
629 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
630 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
631 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
633 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
634 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
636 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
637 =========================
642 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
645 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
647 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
648 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
649 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
651 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
652 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
654 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
655 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
656 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
658 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
660 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
661 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
662 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
663 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
664 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
665 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
670 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
671 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
674 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
677 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
679 Command Line Interface
680 ----------------------
682 Database revision tracking
684 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
685 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
686 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
687 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
689 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
691 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
692 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
693 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
694 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
695 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
696 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
697 manual page for further information.
702 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
704 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
705 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
707 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
709 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
710 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
711 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
713 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
715 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
717 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
718 customization as well.
720 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
722 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
724 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
726 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
728 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
729 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
730 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
731 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
733 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
735 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
736 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
737 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
738 this variable to 10000.
743 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
744 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
746 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
748 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
749 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
750 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
751 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
752 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
753 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
754 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
755 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
756 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
759 Database revision tracking
761 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
762 query parser and the new function
763 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
765 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
769 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
770 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
771 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
772 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
777 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
779 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
780 ===========================
785 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
787 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
788 ===========================
793 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
795 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
796 =========================
798 Command-Line Interface
799 ----------------------
801 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
803 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
804 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
805 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
807 Path to gpg is now configurable
809 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
810 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
815 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
817 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
822 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
827 Support messages without Message-IDs.
832 Undeprecate single message mboxes
834 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
835 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
837 New error logging facility
839 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
840 output formerly printed to stderr.
842 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
844 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
846 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
848 Fix for rounding of seconds
853 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
855 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
856 docmumentation has been removed.
858 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
860 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
861 some material from the relicensed wiki.
866 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
867 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
868 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
873 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
874 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
875 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
876 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
877 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
878 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
881 git checkout config origin/config
883 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
885 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
886 =========================
891 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
892 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
893 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
894 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
895 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
896 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
897 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
899 Command-Line Interface
900 ----------------------
902 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
904 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
905 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
906 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
907 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
908 script callers should still check the return value.
910 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
912 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
913 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
914 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
915 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
916 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
917 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
918 and returning success even if indexing fails).
920 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
922 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
923 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
924 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
926 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
928 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
929 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
930 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
931 currently unmaintained.
933 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
935 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
936 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
937 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
938 have at least `N` files associated with them.
940 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
942 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
943 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
944 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
945 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
946 count of duplicate addresses.
951 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
953 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
954 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
955 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
958 Improved handling of the unread tag
960 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
961 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
962 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
963 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
964 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
965 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
966 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
968 Expanded default saved search settings
970 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
971 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
973 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
975 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
976 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
977 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
979 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
981 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
982 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
983 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
984 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
985 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
986 the variable for details.
991 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
993 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
994 Representing these independently of the database version number will
995 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
996 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
998 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1000 Previously, library users were required to call
1001 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1002 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1003 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1004 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1005 too out of date for that API.
1007 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1009 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1010 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1011 atomic section will be aborted.
1013 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1014 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1016 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1018 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1019 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1020 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1021 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1022 messages into the same thread.
1027 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1028 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1029 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1030 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1031 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1032 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1037 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1038 from the config file. Use something like:
1042 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1043 "footer": "</body></html>",
1052 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1057 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1058 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1059 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1061 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1062 ===========================
1067 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1069 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1071 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1073 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1074 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1076 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1078 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1081 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1082 ===========================
1084 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1089 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1091 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1093 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1095 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1097 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1103 Use --quick when starting emacs
1105 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1107 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1109 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1111 Command-Line Interface
1112 ----------------------
1114 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1115 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1120 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1122 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1123 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1125 Fix for phrase indexing
1127 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1128 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1129 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1134 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1136 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1137 unintentionally removed.
1139 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1140 =========================
1145 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1146 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1147 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1148 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1149 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1150 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1151 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1152 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1153 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1159 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1161 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1162 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1163 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1164 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1165 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1166 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1167 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1168 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1170 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1172 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1173 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1174 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1175 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1178 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1180 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1181 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1182 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1183 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1184 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1185 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1186 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1191 Notmuch database upgrade
1193 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1194 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1195 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1196 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1197 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1198 released version of Notmuch before now.
1200 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1202 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1203 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1204 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1205 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1207 Message header parsing changes
1209 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1210 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1211 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1212 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1213 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1214 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1216 Command-Line Interface
1217 ----------------------
1219 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1221 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1223 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1225 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1227 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1229 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1230 user does not want it.
1232 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1234 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1235 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1236 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1237 support formatted output.
1239 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1241 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1242 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1243 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1251 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1252 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1253 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1254 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1255 `~/.emacs` with these.
1257 Changed format for saved searches
1259 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1260 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1261 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1262 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1265 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1266 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1267 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1268 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1270 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1271 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1272 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1274 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1275 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1276 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1277 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1278 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1280 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1282 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1283 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1284 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1286 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1288 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1289 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1290 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1291 message had been unread).
1293 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1294 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1295 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1296 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1298 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1299 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1300 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1302 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1303 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1304 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1305 to tags already present.
1309 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1310 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1311 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1312 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1313 these differ from each other.
1314 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1316 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1318 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1319 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1320 for these Emacs versions.
1322 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1324 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1325 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1327 Bug fixes for sender identities
1329 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1330 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1331 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1333 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1335 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1336 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1337 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1338 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1340 Reply pushes mark before signature
1342 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1343 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1344 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1346 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1348 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1349 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1355 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1356 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1358 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1359 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1360 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1361 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1363 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1364 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1365 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1366 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1367 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1369 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1371 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1372 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1374 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1375 =========================
1377 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1378 ---------------------------------------
1380 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1381 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1382 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1383 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1384 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1385 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1386 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1390 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1391 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1393 Command-Line Interface
1394 ----------------------
1396 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1398 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1399 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1400 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1401 print for each message.
1403 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1404 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1405 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1406 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1408 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1410 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1411 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1412 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1414 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1416 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1417 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1418 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1419 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1421 `notmuch compact` command
1423 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1424 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1425 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1426 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1427 move the compacted database into place.
1432 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1434 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1435 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1436 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1437 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1438 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1439 and multiple threads.
1441 Using `notmuch-tree`
1443 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1445 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1446 search, show and tree mode itself)
1448 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1451 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1452 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1454 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1456 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1457 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1458 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1459 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1460 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1461 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1462 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1464 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1466 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1467 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1468 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1469 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1470 thread when the search was performed.
1472 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1474 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1475 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1476 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1478 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1480 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1481 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1484 Built-in help improvements
1486 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1487 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1488 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1490 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1492 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1493 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1494 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1496 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1498 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1499 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1501 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1503 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1504 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1505 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1506 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1508 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1510 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1511 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1512 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1513 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1515 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1517 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1518 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1519 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1521 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1523 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1524 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1525 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1527 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1529 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1530 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1531 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1532 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1533 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1535 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1537 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1538 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1539 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1540 the body part of the message.
1545 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1546 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1547 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1549 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1550 =========================
1552 Command-Line Interface
1553 ----------------------
1555 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1557 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1558 folder and notmuch index.
1560 `notmuch count --batch` option
1562 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1563 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1565 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1567 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1568 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1569 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1572 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1574 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1575 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1576 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1577 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1578 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1581 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1583 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1584 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1586 Top level option to specify configuration file
1588 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1589 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1591 Bash command-line completion
1593 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1594 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1595 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1596 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1597 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1598 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1599 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1600 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1601 bash-completion package.
1603 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1608 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1610 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1611 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1612 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1613 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1614 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1615 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1616 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1617 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1619 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1621 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1622 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1623 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1625 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1627 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1628 previous thread in the search results.
1630 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1632 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1633 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1635 Faster search and show
1637 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1638 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1639 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1640 threads should show faster.
1644 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1645 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1646 in question was now removed from this release.
1651 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1652 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1657 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1659 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1660 ===========================
1665 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1667 Internal test framework changes
1668 -------------------------------
1670 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1671 being unimplemented.
1673 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1674 ===========================
1676 Internal test framework changes
1677 -------------------------------
1679 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1680 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1682 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1683 =========================
1688 Date range search support
1690 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1691 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1692 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1693 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1694 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1697 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1699 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1700 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1701 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1702 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1703 but may be removed in a future release.
1705 Command-Line Interface
1706 ----------------------
1708 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1710 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1711 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1713 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1715 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1716 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1717 officially deprecated.
1719 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1721 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1722 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1723 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1725 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1727 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1728 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1731 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1732 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1733 dump/restore format.
1735 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1737 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1738 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1739 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1741 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1743 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1744 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1745 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1747 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1749 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1750 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1751 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1752 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1757 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1759 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1760 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1761 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1762 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1764 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1766 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1767 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1768 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1769 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1770 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1771 the behavior of this, see
1772 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1773 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1775 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1776 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1777 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1779 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1781 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1782 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1785 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1787 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1788 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1789 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1790 simply displayed in place of the message.
1792 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1794 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1795 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1797 Improved text/calendar content handling
1799 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1800 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1801 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1802 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1804 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1806 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1807 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1808 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1809 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1811 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1813 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1814 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1815 for HTML email containing images.
1817 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1819 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1821 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1823 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1826 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1828 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1829 the point where it was.
1831 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1833 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1834 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1835 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1836 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1837 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1839 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1841 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1842 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1843 thread instead of the message id.
1845 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1846 -----------------------------
1848 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1849 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1850 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1851 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1852 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1853 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1854 further details and installation.
1859 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1861 Internal test framework changes
1862 -------------------------------
1864 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1866 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1867 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1868 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1869 can result in buggy behavior.
1871 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1872 =========================
1877 Maildir tag synchronization
1879 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1880 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1881 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1882 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1883 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1884 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1887 Command-Line Interface
1888 ----------------------
1890 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1891 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1892 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1893 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1894 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1900 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1902 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1904 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1905 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1906 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1908 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1910 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1911 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1912 span multiple lines.
1914 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1916 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1917 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1918 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1919 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1920 inside the result or message.
1922 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1924 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1925 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1927 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1928 user-specified formatting
1930 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1931 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1932 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1933 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1934 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1936 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1937 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1939 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1940 ===========================
1945 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1946 compilation error for this contrib package.
1948 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1949 ===========================
1954 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1956 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1957 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1958 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1959 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1961 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1962 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1965 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1966 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1967 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1968 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1971 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1973 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1976 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1977 =========================
1979 Command-Line Interface
1980 ----------------------
1984 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1985 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1986 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1987 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1989 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1990 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1991 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1992 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1996 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1997 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1999 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2000 tag in your query, for example:
2002 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2004 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2005 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2007 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2008 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2010 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2012 Raw show format changes
2014 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2015 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2016 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2017 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2018 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2019 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2020 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2021 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2023 Listing configuration items
2025 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2031 Changes to tagging interface
2033 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2034 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2035 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2036 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2037 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2038 for more information.
2040 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2041 may need to update in custom configurations.
2043 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2045 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2046 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2047 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2048 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2051 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2052 -----------------------------
2054 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2055 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2056 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2057 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2058 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2059 contrib/ from now on.
2064 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2065 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2067 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2068 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2070 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2071 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2072 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2074 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2075 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2077 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2078 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2079 returning the new database object or directory object.
2086 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2087 compatible with go 1.
2089 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2090 =========================
2092 Command-Line Interface
2093 ----------------------
2097 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2098 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2099 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2100 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2102 Mail store folder/file ignore
2104 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2105 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2106 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2108 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2109 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2111 Unified help and manual pages
2113 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2114 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2117 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2119 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2120 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2128 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2129 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2130 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2131 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2133 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2135 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2136 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2138 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2141 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2142 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2143 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2145 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2147 should be changed to:
2149 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2151 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2153 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2154 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2156 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2158 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2159 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2160 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2161 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2162 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2163 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2167 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2168 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2169 of Mailing List Archives.
2171 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2173 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2174 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2177 Show view archiving key binding changes
2179 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2180 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2181 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2182 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2183 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2186 Support text/calendar MIME type
2188 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2191 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2193 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2194 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2195 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2196 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2198 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2200 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2201 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2202 messages blue by default in the search view.
2206 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2207 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2214 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2217 Python bindings changes
2218 -----------------------
2220 Python 3.2 compatibility
2222 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2224 Added missing unicode conversions
2226 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2227 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2228 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2233 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2235 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2236 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2237 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2238 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2239 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2241 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2242 ===========================
2247 Fix error handling in python bindings
2249 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2250 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2251 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2252 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2254 Quote MML tags in replies
2256 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2257 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2258 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2259 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2260 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2261 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2262 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2263 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2265 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2266 =========================
2268 Command-Line Interface
2269 ----------------------
2273 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2274 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2275 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2276 importing new messages into the database.
2278 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2280 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2281 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2282 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2287 Automatic tag query optimization
2289 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2290 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2291 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2293 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2295 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2296 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2297 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2302 Reduction of memory leaks
2304 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2305 and fixed in this release.
2312 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2313 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2314 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2317 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2319 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2320 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2321 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2324 Improvements in saved search management
2326 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2327 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2328 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2330 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2332 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2333 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2334 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2336 New face for crypto parts headers
2338 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2339 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2340 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2343 Use space as default thousands separator
2345 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2346 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2347 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2349 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2350 buttonized id: links
2352 New function notmuch-show-advance
2354 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2355 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2356 be bound to SPC with:
2358 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2360 Various performance improvements
2365 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2366 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2369 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2370 ===========================
2375 Fix crash in python bindings
2377 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2378 for some, but not all users.
2380 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2381 ===========================
2386 Fix `--help` argument
2388 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2389 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2390 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2392 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2393 =========================
2395 New build and testing features
2396 ------------------------------
2398 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2399 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2400 prerequisites is improved.
2402 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2404 New command-line features
2405 -------------------------
2407 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2409 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2410 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2413 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2415 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2416 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2417 favour of using stdout.
2419 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2421 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2422 limit the number of results shown.
2424 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2426 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2427 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2430 New emacs UI features
2431 ---------------------
2433 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2435 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2436 starting with "tag:".
2438 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2440 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2441 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2443 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2445 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2447 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2449 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2450 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2455 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2457 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2459 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2460 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2461 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2462 requires a database rebuild:
2464 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2465 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2467 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2469 New collection of add-on tools
2470 ------------------------------
2472 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2473 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2474 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2477 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2479 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2480 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2481 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2483 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2484 ========================
2486 New, general features
2487 ---------------------
2489 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2491 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2492 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2493 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2494 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2495 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2502 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2503 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2505 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2509 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2510 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2511 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2514 Python bindings changes
2515 -----------------------
2517 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2519 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2520 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2521 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2522 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2523 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2524 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2526 Ruby bindings changes
2527 ---------------------
2529 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2530 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2531 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2532 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2537 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2539 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2540 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2542 Reply formatting cleanup
2543 ------------------------
2545 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2546 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2548 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2549 ========================
2551 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2553 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2554 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2555 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2556 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2559 Improved Build system portability
2561 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2562 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2563 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2565 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2567 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2569 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2571 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2572 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2573 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2575 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2576 ========================
2578 Vim interface improvements
2579 --------------------------
2581 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2583 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2584 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2585 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2586 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2587 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2589 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2591 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2592 * fix compose temp file name
2594 Python Bindings changes
2595 -----------------------
2597 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2599 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2600 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2602 Build-System improvements
2603 -------------------------
2605 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2607 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2610 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2611 ==========================
2616 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2618 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2619 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2621 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2622 =======================
2624 New, general features
2625 ---------------------
2627 Folder-based searching
2629 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2630 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2631 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2635 For example, one might use things such as:
2641 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2642 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2644 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2645 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2646 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2647 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2649 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2650 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2651 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2654 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2655 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2657 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2659 Support for PGP/MIME
2661 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2662 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2663 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2665 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2667 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2668 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2670 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2671 notmuch will receive these tags.
2673 New command-line features
2674 -------------------------
2676 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2678 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2679 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2681 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2683 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2684 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2685 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2687 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2689 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2690 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2691 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2692 which parts a signature part applies).
2694 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2696 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2697 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2698 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2699 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2700 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2703 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2705 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2706 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2707 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2708 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2709 by translating it internally to the new call.
2711 Performance improvements
2712 ------------------------
2714 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2716 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2717 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2718 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2720 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2721 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2723 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2725 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2726 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2727 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2729 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2730 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2731 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2732 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2734 Faster initial indexing
2736 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2737 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2738 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2740 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2742 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2743 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2744 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2745 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2747 New emacs-interface features
2748 ----------------------------
2750 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2752 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2753 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2754 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2755 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2756 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2757 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2759 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2761 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2762 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2763 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2764 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2766 User-selectable From address
2768 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2769 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2770 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2771 will prompt for the from address to use.
2773 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2774 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2775 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2777 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2778 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2779 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2782 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2784 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2785 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2787 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2789 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2791 ----- Original Message -----
2793 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2794 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2795 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2796 citations work much like conventional citations.
2798 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2800 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2801 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2802 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2803 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2804 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2806 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2807 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2809 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2811 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2812 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2813 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2815 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2817 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2818 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2819 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2820 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2821 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2823 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2825 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2828 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2830 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2832 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2834 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2837 Vim interface improvements
2838 --------------------------
2840 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2842 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2843 * Implementing archive in show view
2844 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2845 * Add delete commands
2848 Bindings improvements
2849 ---------------------
2851 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2853 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2854 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2856 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2858 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2862 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2863 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2864 `list(Messages)` works now
2865 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2867 These allow, for example:
2869 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2871 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2873 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2879 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2881 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2884 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2886 New build-system features
2887 -------------------------
2889 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2891 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2892 the configure script from some other directory:
2899 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2901 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2902 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2903 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2904 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2905 manual invocation of configure.
2907 New test-suite feature
2908 ----------------------
2910 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2912 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2913 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2914 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2915 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2916 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2919 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2921 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2922 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2923 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2924 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2925 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2926 are updated to take advantage of this.
2928 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2930 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2931 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2932 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2933 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2939 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2941 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2942 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2943 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2945 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2947 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2949 to:user@elsewhere.com
2951 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2953 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2955 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2957 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2958 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2959 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2962 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2963 from the Received headers in some cases
2965 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2966 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2968 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2970 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2972 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2974 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2975 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2976 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2978 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2979 -------------------------
2981 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2983 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2984 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2985 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2987 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2989 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2990 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2991 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2994 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2996 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2997 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2998 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2999 fixed to avoid this bug.
3001 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3003 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3004 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3006 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3007 ========================
3009 New, general features
3010 ---------------------
3012 Maildir-flag synchronization
3014 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3015 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3024 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3026 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3027 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3028 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3029 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3031 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3032 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3033 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3034 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3037 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3039 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3040 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3041 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3043 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3044 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3046 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3047 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3049 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3050 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3051 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3053 New library features
3054 --------------------
3056 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3058 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3059 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3060 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3061 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3063 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3064 message with the new function:
3066 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3068 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3069 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3070 over all available filenames for a given message.
3072 New command-line features
3073 -------------------------
3075 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3077 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3078 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3079 access to the mail store itself.
3081 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3082 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3083 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3084 name of a script containing:
3086 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3088 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3089 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3095 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3097 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3099 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3101 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3102 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3103 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3104 now produces nothing).
3106 Emacs interface improvements
3107 ----------------------------
3109 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3111 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3113 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3115 Display current thread subject in a header line
3117 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3119 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3121 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3122 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3123 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3124 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3125 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3126 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3127 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3129 Vim interface improvements
3130 --------------------------
3132 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3134 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3135 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3141 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3143 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3144 ========================
3146 New command-line features
3147 -------------------------
3149 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3151 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3152 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3153 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3155 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3156 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3157 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3158 scripts. For example:
3160 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3161 <operations-on> "$file"
3164 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3166 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3167 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3168 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3169 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3170 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3171 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3173 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3175 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3176 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3177 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3178 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3180 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3182 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3183 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3184 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3185 default rather than Bcc.
3187 New library features
3188 --------------------
3190 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3192 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3193 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3198 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3200 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3201 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3202 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3203 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3204 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3205 notmuch customize interface.
3207 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3209 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3210 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3211 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3212 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3214 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3216 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3217 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3218 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3219 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3221 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3223 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3224 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3225 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3226 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3227 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3228 notmuch customize interface.
3230 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3232 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3233 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3234 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3235 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3236 notmuch customize interface.
3238 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3240 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3241 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3242 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3243 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3246 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3248 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3249 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3250 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3253 New build-system features
3254 -------------------------
3256 Various portability fixes have been applied
3258 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3259 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3260 more portable than ever before.
3262 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3264 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3265 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3266 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3268 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3269 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3270 automatically run ldconfig.
3272 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3273 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3274 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3276 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3277 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3278 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3279 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3281 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3283 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3284 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3285 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3286 used in the resulting Makefile.
3288 New test-suite features
3289 -----------------------
3291 New modularization of test suite
3293 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3294 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3295 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3296 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3297 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3298 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3299 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3300 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3302 New testing of emacs interface
3304 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3305 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3306 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3307 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3308 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3309 database via the FCC setting.
3314 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3316 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3317 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3318 persistent error of the form:
3320 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3322 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3323 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3325 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3327 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3328 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3329 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3331 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3333 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3334 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3335 parsing the notmuch results).
3337 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3339 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3342 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3343 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3344 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3349 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3351 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3352 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3353 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3354 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3355 the emacs interface.
3357 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3359 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3360 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3361 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3363 Python-binding fixes
3364 --------------------
3366 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3368 Debian-specific fixes
3369 ---------------------
3371 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3373 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3374 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3375 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3378 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3379 ==========================
3384 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3386 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3387 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3388 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3389 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3391 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3393 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3394 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3395 want notmuch to crash.
3400 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3402 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3403 directory does not exist
3408 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3410 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3411 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3413 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3414 ========================
3416 New command-line features
3417 -------------------------
3419 User-configurable tags for new messages
3421 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3422 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3423 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3424 to specify this value.
3426 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3428 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3429 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3430 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3432 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3434 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3435 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3437 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3439 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3440 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3441 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3442 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3443 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3446 Indication of author names that match a search
3448 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3449 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3450 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3451 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3452 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3453 messages in the thread are listed first.
3455 New: Python bindings
3456 --------------------
3458 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3459 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3460 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3461 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3463 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3464 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3465 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3468 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3469 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3470 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3472 Emacs interface improvements
3473 ----------------------------
3475 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3477 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3478 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3479 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3480 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3481 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3482 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3483 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3484 but without any of the disadvantages).
3486 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3487 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3488 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3491 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3492 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3493 instead running something like:
3495 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3497 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3498 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3499 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3502 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3504 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3505 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3506 tweaked by the user.
3508 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3509 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3510 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3513 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3514 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3515 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3518 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3520 This support currently relies on an external program,
3521 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3522 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3523 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3524 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3525 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3528 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3529 notmuch) is available via:
3531 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3533 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3534 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3535 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3537 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3539 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3540 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3541 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3542 making this automatic in a future release.
3544 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3546 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3547 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3548 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3549 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3550 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3551 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3554 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3556 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3557 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3558 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3560 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3562 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3563 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3564 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3566 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3567 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3568 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3569 other representation.
3571 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3572 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3575 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3577 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3578 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3579 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3581 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3582 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3583 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3585 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3587 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3588 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3589 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3590 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3591 to display the search result.
3593 More flexible handling of header visibility
3595 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3596 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3597 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3598 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3599 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3600 with the 'h' keybinding.
3602 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3603 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3604 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3606 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3608 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3610 Customizable formatting of search results
3612 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3613 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3614 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3616 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3618 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3620 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3625 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3627 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3628 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3629 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3630 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3636 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3638 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3639 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3641 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3643 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3644 accept are now all accepted.
3649 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3651 Better display of output from failed tests
3653 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3654 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3656 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3657 ========================
3659 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3660 detailed release notes this time!
3662 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3663 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3665 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3666 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3667 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3668 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3675 Better guessing of From: header
3677 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3678 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3679 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3680 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3681 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3684 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3686 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3687 guaranteed to match all messages.
3689 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3691 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3692 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3693 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3694 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3695 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3698 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3701 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3702 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3703 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3704 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3709 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3711 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3712 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3713 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3714 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3716 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3718 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3720 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3721 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3722 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3724 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3726 Previously, the user might see:
3728 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3732 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3734 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3735 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3736 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3737 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3739 Emacs client features
3740 ---------------------
3742 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3744 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3745 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3746 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3747 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3748 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3750 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3753 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3754 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3755 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3756 search with the '*' binding.
3758 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3760 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3761 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3764 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3766 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3767 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3768 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3770 Build-system features
3771 ---------------------
3773 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3775 Add support to configure for many standard options
3777 We include actual support for:
3779 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3781 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3783 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3784 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3786 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3787 separate "make install-emacs"
3789 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3791 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3792 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3793 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3795 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3798 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3799 ========================
3801 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3803 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3804 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3806 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3807 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3808 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3809 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3810 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3811 tags from messages in a thread.
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