1 Notmuch 0.32 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
8 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
9 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
10 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
11 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
12 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
13 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
14 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
15 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
16 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
17 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
22 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
23 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
25 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
26 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
27 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
28 - `notmuch_config_get`
30 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
31 now exposed (and generalized).
33 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
34 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formated documentation in `notmuch(3)`
39 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
40 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
42 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
43 ===========================
48 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
53 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
55 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
56 ===========================
61 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
66 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
71 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
73 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
74 ===========================
79 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
80 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
82 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
83 ===========================
88 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
93 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
94 with a C++ header for some compilers.
96 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
98 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
99 =========================
104 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
105 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
106 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
108 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
110 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
112 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
114 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
117 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
119 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
120 search, show and tree mode)
122 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
125 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
128 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
129 always be newest first.
134 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
135 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
136 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
142 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
143 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
144 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
145 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
147 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
148 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
149 non-status providing versions.
151 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
152 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
154 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
155 promised in the documentation.
160 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
161 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
162 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
167 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
168 development version).
173 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
178 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
180 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
181 =========================
186 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
187 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
188 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
191 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
197 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
198 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
199 notmuch-properties(7)).
204 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
205 has protected headers (see
206 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
207 notmuch-properties(7)).
212 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
214 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
215 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
221 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
224 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
225 ===========================
230 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
232 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
237 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
239 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
240 ===========================
245 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
246 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
248 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
249 ===========================
254 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
256 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
257 =========================
262 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
263 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
266 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
267 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
268 the set of headers to be indexed.
270 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
273 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
274 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
275 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
278 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
279 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
280 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
282 Command Line Interface
283 ----------------------
285 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
288 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
290 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
291 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
292 more details about what is included there. This status includes
293 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
298 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
299 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
301 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
303 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
305 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
307 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
309 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
312 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
314 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
315 and may be removed in a future release.
317 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
323 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
325 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
326 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
331 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
332 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
333 cryptography support.
338 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
339 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
340 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
342 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
343 ===========================
345 Command line interface
346 ----------------------
348 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
349 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
351 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
352 ===========================
357 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
358 by message properties.
363 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
365 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
366 ===========================
371 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
376 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
377 now needed to build this documentation.
379 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
380 ===========================
385 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
386 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
388 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
389 =========================
396 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
397 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
398 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
399 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
400 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
403 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
405 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
406 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
407 correct encoding for such messages.
409 Command Line Interface
410 ----------------------
412 Support relative database paths
414 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
415 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
416 to $HOME of the invoking user.
421 Improve stderr handling
423 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
424 needed on e.g. macOS.
426 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
428 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
433 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
434 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
440 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
441 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
447 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
448 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
451 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
452 =========================
457 Add support for thread:{} queries
459 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
460 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
461 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
463 Command Line Interface
464 ----------------------
466 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
468 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
470 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
472 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
473 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
474 does not have to be available during message receipt.
479 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
485 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
486 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
488 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
489 ===========================
494 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
496 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
497 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
498 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
500 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
502 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
503 related abort in `notmuch show`.
505 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
506 ===========================
511 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
512 better late than never.
515 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
516 =========================
518 Command Line Interface
519 ----------------------
521 Support for re-indexing existing messages
523 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
524 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
525 change the way specific messages are indexed.
527 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
528 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
529 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
531 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
533 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
535 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
537 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
538 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
539 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
540 the setting of `new.tags`.
542 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
544 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
546 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
548 This inserts into the top level folder.
550 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
552 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
554 New option --output=address for notmuch address
556 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
558 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
560 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
561 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
562 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
564 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
569 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
571 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
572 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
573 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
574 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
575 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
576 config set index.decrypt true".
578 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
579 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
580 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
581 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
582 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
583 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
584 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
585 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
587 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
588 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
589 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
590 this feature without considering the security of your index.
595 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
597 Use make-process when available
599 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
600 notmuch command without using temporary files.
605 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
607 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
608 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
609 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
610 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
612 New functions to count files
614 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
615 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
617 New function to remove properties
619 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
620 drop all properties with a common pattern:
621 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
623 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
625 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
626 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
627 possibility of NULL was not documented.
629 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
631 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
632 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
633 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
634 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
635 operator may decide to change from message to message.
642 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
643 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
644 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
650 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
652 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
653 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
655 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
657 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
659 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
661 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
666 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
667 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
669 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
670 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
671 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
672 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
673 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
674 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
679 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
681 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
682 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
683 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
684 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
686 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
687 ===========================
692 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
693 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
696 Command Line Interface
697 ----------------------
699 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
700 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
703 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
704 ===========================
706 Command Line Interface
707 ----------------------
709 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
710 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
715 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
718 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
719 ===========================
724 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
727 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
728 =========================
733 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
735 Skip HTML tags when indexing
737 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
739 Command Line Interface
740 ----------------------
742 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
744 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
749 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
751 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
752 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
755 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
760 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
762 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
763 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
765 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
767 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
768 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
771 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
773 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
775 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
777 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
778 ===========================
780 Command Line Interface
781 ----------------------
783 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
788 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
790 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
791 ===========================
796 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
798 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
799 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
802 Command Line Interface
803 ----------------------
805 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
807 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
809 Fix bug in dump header
811 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
812 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
813 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
818 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
820 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
821 =========================
826 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
828 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
831 Command Line Interface
832 ----------------------
834 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
836 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
837 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
838 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
840 New default output format to 3
842 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
843 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
844 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
845 default format changes.
850 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
852 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
853 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
854 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
855 or tree view to resume.
857 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
858 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
859 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
862 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
863 they were when you postponed in the final message.
867 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
868 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
869 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
870 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
871 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
875 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
876 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
877 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
878 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
879 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
880 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
884 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
885 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
887 Stop display of `application/*` parts
889 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
890 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
891 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
892 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
893 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
894 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
895 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
896 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
899 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
901 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
902 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
903 only tagged the current thread.)
905 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
907 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
908 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
909 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
911 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
913 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
914 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
915 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
916 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
917 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
918 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
919 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
921 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
923 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
924 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
925 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
930 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
932 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
935 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
937 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
940 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
941 ===========================
946 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
948 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
949 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
950 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
953 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
954 ===========================
956 Command Line Interface
957 ----------------------
959 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
964 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
966 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
967 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
968 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
970 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
971 ===========================
976 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
977 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
979 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
980 ===========================
982 Command Line Interface
983 ----------------------
985 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
987 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
988 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
989 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
994 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
996 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
997 ===========================
999 Command Line Interface
1000 ----------------------
1002 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1007 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1009 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1010 ===========================
1015 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1017 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1018 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1019 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1021 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1023 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1025 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1026 ===========================
1031 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1033 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1038 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1040 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1041 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1042 the original colours.
1044 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1045 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1047 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1049 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1050 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1051 bug, and hence the test.
1053 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1054 =========================
1056 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1057 ---------------------
1059 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1061 Support for single argument date: queries
1063 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1065 Support for blocking opens
1067 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1068 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1070 Support for named queries
1072 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1073 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1074 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1079 Message property API
1081 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1082 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1083 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1084 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1086 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1088 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1093 Support for compile time options
1095 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1096 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1099 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1101 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1102 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1103 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1104 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1105 scripts to ignore it.
1110 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1112 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1113 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1114 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1116 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1117 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1118 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1119 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1120 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1121 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1122 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1124 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1125 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1128 Make internal address completion customizable
1130 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1131 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1132 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1133 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1136 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1138 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1139 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1140 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1141 completion for the current buffer.
1143 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1144 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1145 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1149 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1150 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1151 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1152 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1153 will be added instead.
1155 Face customization is easier
1157 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1158 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1159 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1160 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1162 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1167 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1172 Go bindings moved to contrib
1174 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1176 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1178 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1179 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1181 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1183 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1184 ===========================
1191 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1192 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1194 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1196 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1198 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1199 ===========================
1204 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1206 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1211 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1216 Use `env` to locate perl.
1221 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1223 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1225 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1227 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1229 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1230 =========================
1237 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1238 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1240 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1242 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1243 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1244 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1249 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1250 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1251 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1253 Command Line Interface
1254 ----------------------
1256 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1258 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1263 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1268 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1270 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1271 parts are now included in replies.
1273 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1274 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1275 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1276 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1278 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1280 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1282 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1284 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1285 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1286 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1287 forwards only the current message.
1289 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1291 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1292 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1293 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1294 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1295 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1296 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1297 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1298 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1301 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1302 longer generate empty buffers
1304 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1305 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1306 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1307 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1308 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1310 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1312 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1315 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1317 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1320 Address completion improvements
1322 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1323 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1324 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1325 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1326 interactive address completion.
1328 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1330 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1331 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1332 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1337 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1338 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1339 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1345 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1346 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1347 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1348 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1349 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1350 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1352 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1353 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1354 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1355 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1356 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1357 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1359 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1360 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1362 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1363 =========================
1368 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1371 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1373 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1374 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1375 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1377 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1378 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1380 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1381 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1382 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1384 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1386 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1387 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1388 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1389 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1390 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1391 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1396 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1397 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1400 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1401 option to configure.
1403 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1405 Command Line Interface
1406 ----------------------
1408 Database revision tracking
1410 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1411 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1412 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1413 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1415 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1417 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1418 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1419 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1420 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1421 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1422 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1423 manual page for further information.
1428 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1430 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1431 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1433 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1435 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1436 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1437 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1439 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1441 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1443 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1444 customization as well.
1446 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1448 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1450 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1452 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1454 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1455 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1456 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1457 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1459 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1461 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1462 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1463 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1464 this variable to 10000.
1469 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1470 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1472 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1474 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1475 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1476 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1477 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1478 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1479 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1480 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1481 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1482 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1485 Database revision tracking
1487 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1488 query parser and the new function
1489 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1491 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1493 Deprecated functions
1495 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1496 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1497 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1498 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1503 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1505 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1506 ===========================
1511 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1513 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1514 ===========================
1519 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1521 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1522 =========================
1524 Command-Line Interface
1525 ----------------------
1527 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1529 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1530 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1531 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1533 Path to gpg is now configurable
1535 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1536 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1541 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1543 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1548 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1553 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1558 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1560 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1561 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1563 New error logging facility
1565 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1566 output formerly printed to stderr.
1568 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1570 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1572 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1574 Fix for rounding of seconds
1579 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1581 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1582 documentation has been removed.
1584 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1586 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1587 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1592 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1593 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1594 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1599 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1600 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1601 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1602 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1603 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1604 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1607 git checkout config origin/config
1609 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1611 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1612 =========================
1617 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1618 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1619 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1620 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1621 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1622 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1623 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1625 Command-Line Interface
1626 ----------------------
1628 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1630 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1631 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1632 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1633 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1634 script callers should still check the return value.
1636 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1638 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1639 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1640 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1641 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1642 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1643 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1644 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1646 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1648 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1649 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1650 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1652 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1654 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1655 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1656 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1657 currently unmaintained.
1659 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1661 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1662 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1663 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1664 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1666 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1668 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1669 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1670 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1671 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1672 count of duplicate addresses.
1677 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1679 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1680 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1681 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1684 Improved handling of the unread tag
1686 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1687 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1688 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1689 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1690 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1691 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1692 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1694 Expanded default saved search settings
1696 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1697 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1699 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1701 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1702 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1703 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1705 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1707 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1708 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1709 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1710 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1711 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1712 the variable for details.
1717 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1719 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1720 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1721 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1722 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1724 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1726 Previously, library users were required to call
1727 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1728 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1729 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1730 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1731 too out of date for that API.
1733 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1735 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1736 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1737 atomic section will be aborted.
1739 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1740 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1742 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1744 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1745 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1746 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1747 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1748 messages into the same thread.
1753 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1754 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1755 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1756 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1757 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1758 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1763 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1764 from the config file. Use something like:
1768 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1769 "footer": "</body></html>",
1778 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1783 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1784 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1785 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1787 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1788 ===========================
1793 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1795 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1797 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1799 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1800 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1802 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1804 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1807 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1808 ===========================
1810 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1815 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1817 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1819 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1821 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1823 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1829 Use --quick when starting emacs
1831 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1833 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1835 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1837 Command-Line Interface
1838 ----------------------
1840 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1841 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1846 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1848 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1849 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1851 Fix for phrase indexing
1853 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1854 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1855 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1860 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1862 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1863 unintentionally removed.
1865 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1866 =========================
1871 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1872 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1873 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1874 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1875 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1876 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1877 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1878 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1879 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1885 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1887 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1888 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1889 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1890 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1891 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1892 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1893 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1894 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1896 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1898 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1899 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1900 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1901 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1904 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1906 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1907 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1908 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1909 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1910 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1911 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1912 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1917 Notmuch database upgrade
1919 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1920 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1921 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1922 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1923 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1924 released version of Notmuch before now.
1926 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1928 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1929 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1930 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1931 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1933 Message header parsing changes
1935 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1936 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1937 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1938 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1939 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1940 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1942 Command-Line Interface
1943 ----------------------
1945 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1947 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1949 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1951 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1953 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1955 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1956 user does not want it.
1958 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1960 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1961 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1962 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1963 support formatted output.
1965 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1967 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1968 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1969 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1977 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1978 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1979 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1980 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1981 `~/.emacs` with these.
1983 Changed format for saved searches
1985 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1986 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1987 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1988 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1991 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1992 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1993 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1994 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1996 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1997 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1998 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2000 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2001 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2002 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2003 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2004 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2006 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2008 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2009 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2010 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2012 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2014 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2015 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2016 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2017 message had been unread).
2019 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2020 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2021 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2022 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2024 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2025 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2026 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2028 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2029 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2030 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2031 to tags already present.
2035 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2036 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2037 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2038 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2039 these differ from each other.
2040 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2042 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2044 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2045 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2046 for these Emacs versions.
2048 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2050 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2051 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2053 Bug fixes for sender identities
2055 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2056 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2057 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2059 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2061 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2062 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2063 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2064 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2066 Reply pushes mark before signature
2068 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2069 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2070 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2072 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2074 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2075 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2081 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2082 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2084 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2085 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2086 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2087 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2089 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2090 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2091 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2092 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2093 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2095 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2097 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2098 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2100 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2101 =========================
2103 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2104 ---------------------------------------
2106 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2107 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2108 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2109 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2110 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2111 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2112 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2116 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2117 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2119 Command-Line Interface
2120 ----------------------
2122 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2124 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2125 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2126 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2127 print for each message.
2129 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2130 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2131 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2132 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2134 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2136 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2137 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2138 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2140 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2142 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2143 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2144 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2145 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2147 `notmuch compact` command
2149 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2150 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2151 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2152 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2153 move the compacted database into place.
2158 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2160 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2161 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2162 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2163 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2164 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2165 and multiple threads.
2167 Using `notmuch-tree`
2169 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2171 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2172 search, show and tree mode itself)
2174 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2177 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2178 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2180 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2182 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2183 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2184 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2185 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2186 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2187 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2188 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2190 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2192 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2193 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2194 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2195 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2196 thread when the search was performed.
2198 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2200 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2201 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2202 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2204 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2206 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2207 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2210 Built-in help improvements
2212 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2213 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2214 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2216 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2218 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2219 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2220 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2222 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2224 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2225 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2227 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2229 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2230 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2231 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2232 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2234 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2236 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2237 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2238 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2239 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2241 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2243 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2244 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2245 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2247 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2249 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2250 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2251 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2253 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2255 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2256 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2257 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2258 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2259 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2261 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2263 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2264 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2265 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2266 the body part of the message.
2271 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2272 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2273 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2275 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2276 =========================
2278 Command-Line Interface
2279 ----------------------
2281 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2283 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2284 folder and notmuch index.
2286 `notmuch count --batch` option
2288 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2289 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2291 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2293 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2294 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2295 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2298 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2300 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2301 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2302 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2303 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2304 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2307 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2309 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2310 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2312 Top level option to specify configuration file
2314 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2315 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2317 Bash command-line completion
2319 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2320 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2321 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2322 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2323 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2324 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2325 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2326 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2327 bash-completion package.
2329 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2334 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2336 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2337 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2338 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2339 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2340 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2341 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2342 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2343 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2345 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2347 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2348 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2349 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2351 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2353 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2354 previous thread in the search results.
2356 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2358 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2359 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2361 Faster search and show
2363 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2364 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2365 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2366 threads should show faster.
2370 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2371 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2372 in question was now removed from this release.
2377 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2378 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2383 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2385 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2386 ===========================
2391 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2393 Internal test framework changes
2394 -------------------------------
2396 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2397 being unimplemented.
2399 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2400 ===========================
2402 Internal test framework changes
2403 -------------------------------
2405 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2406 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2408 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2409 =========================
2414 Date range search support
2416 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2417 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2418 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2419 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2420 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2423 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2425 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2426 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2427 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2428 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2429 but may be removed in a future release.
2431 Command-Line Interface
2432 ----------------------
2434 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2436 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2437 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2439 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2441 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2442 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2443 officially deprecated.
2445 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2447 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2448 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2449 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2451 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2453 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2454 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2457 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2458 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2459 dump/restore format.
2461 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2463 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2464 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2465 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2467 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2469 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2470 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2471 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2473 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2475 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2476 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2477 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2478 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2483 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2485 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2486 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2487 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2488 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2490 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2492 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2493 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2494 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2495 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2496 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2497 the behavior of this, see
2498 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2499 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2501 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2502 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2503 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2505 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2507 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2508 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2511 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2513 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2514 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2515 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2516 simply displayed in place of the message.
2518 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2520 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2521 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2523 Improved text/calendar content handling
2525 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2526 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2527 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2528 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2530 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2532 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2533 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2534 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2535 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2537 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2539 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2540 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2541 for HTML email containing images.
2543 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2545 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2547 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2549 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2552 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2554 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2555 the point where it was.
2557 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2559 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2560 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2561 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2562 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2563 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2565 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2567 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2568 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2569 thread instead of the message id.
2571 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2572 -----------------------------
2574 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2575 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2576 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2577 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2578 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2579 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2580 further details and installation.
2585 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2587 Internal test framework changes
2588 -------------------------------
2590 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2592 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2593 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2594 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2595 can result in buggy behavior.
2597 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2598 =========================
2603 Maildir tag synchronization
2605 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2606 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2607 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2608 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2609 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2610 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2613 Command-Line Interface
2614 ----------------------
2616 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2617 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2618 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2619 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2620 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2626 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2628 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2630 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2631 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2632 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2634 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2636 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2637 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2638 span multiple lines.
2640 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2642 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2643 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2644 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2645 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2646 inside the result or message.
2648 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2650 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2651 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2653 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2654 user-specified formatting
2656 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2657 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2658 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2659 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2660 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2662 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2663 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2665 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2666 ===========================
2671 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2672 compilation error for this contrib package.
2674 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2675 ===========================
2680 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2682 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2683 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2684 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2685 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2687 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2688 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2691 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2692 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2693 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2694 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2697 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2699 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2702 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2703 =========================
2705 Command-Line Interface
2706 ----------------------
2710 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2711 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2712 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2713 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2715 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2716 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2717 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2718 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2722 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2723 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2725 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2726 tag in your query, for example:
2728 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2730 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2731 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2733 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2734 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2736 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2738 Raw show format changes
2740 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2741 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2742 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2743 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2744 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2745 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2746 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2747 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2749 Listing configuration items
2751 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2757 Changes to tagging interface
2759 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2760 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2761 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2762 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2763 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2764 for more information.
2766 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2767 may need to update in custom configurations.
2769 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2771 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2772 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2773 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2774 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2777 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2778 -----------------------------
2780 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2781 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2782 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2783 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2784 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2785 contrib/ from now on.
2790 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2791 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2793 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2794 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2796 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2797 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2798 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2800 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2801 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2803 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2804 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2805 returning the new database object or directory object.
2812 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2813 compatible with go 1.
2815 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2816 =========================
2818 Command-Line Interface
2819 ----------------------
2823 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2824 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2825 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2826 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2828 Mail store folder/file ignore
2830 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2831 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2832 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2834 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2835 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2837 Unified help and manual pages
2839 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2840 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2843 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2845 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2846 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2854 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2855 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2856 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2857 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2859 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2861 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2862 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2864 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2867 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2868 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2869 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2871 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2873 should be changed to:
2875 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2877 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2879 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2880 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2882 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2884 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2885 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2886 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2887 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2888 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2889 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2893 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2894 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2895 of Mailing List Archives.
2897 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2899 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2900 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2903 Show view archiving key binding changes
2905 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2906 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2907 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2908 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2909 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2912 Support text/calendar MIME type
2914 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2917 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2919 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2920 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2921 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2922 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2924 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2926 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2927 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2928 messages blue by default in the search view.
2932 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2933 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2940 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2943 Python bindings changes
2944 -----------------------
2946 Python 3.2 compatibility
2948 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2950 Added missing unicode conversions
2952 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2953 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2954 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2959 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2961 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2962 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2963 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2964 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2965 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2967 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2968 ===========================
2973 Fix error handling in python bindings
2975 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2976 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2977 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2978 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2980 Quote MML tags in replies
2982 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2983 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2984 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2985 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2986 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2987 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2988 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2989 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2991 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2992 =========================
2994 Command-Line Interface
2995 ----------------------
2999 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3000 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3001 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3002 importing new messages into the database.
3004 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3006 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3007 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3008 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3013 Automatic tag query optimization
3015 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3016 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3017 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3019 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3021 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3022 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3023 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3028 Reduction of memory leaks
3030 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3031 and fixed in this release.
3038 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3039 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3040 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3043 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3045 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3046 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3047 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3050 Improvements in saved search management
3052 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3053 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3054 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3056 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3058 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3059 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3060 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3062 New face for crypto parts headers
3064 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3065 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3066 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3069 Use space as default thousands separator
3071 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3072 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3073 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3075 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3076 buttonized id: links
3078 New function notmuch-show-advance
3080 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3081 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3082 be bound to SPC with:
3084 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3086 Various performance improvements
3091 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3092 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3095 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3096 ===========================
3101 Fix crash in python bindings
3103 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3104 for some, but not all users.
3106 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3107 ===========================
3112 Fix `--help` argument
3114 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3115 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3116 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3118 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3119 =========================
3121 New build and testing features
3122 ------------------------------
3124 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3125 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3126 prerequisites is improved.
3128 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3130 New command-line features
3131 -------------------------
3133 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3135 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3136 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3139 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3141 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3142 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3143 favour of using stdout.
3145 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3147 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3148 limit the number of results shown.
3150 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3152 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3153 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3156 New emacs UI features
3157 ---------------------
3159 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3161 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3162 starting with "tag:".
3164 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3166 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3167 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3169 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3171 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3173 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3175 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3176 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3181 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3183 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3185 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3186 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3187 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3188 requires a database rebuild:
3190 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3191 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3193 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3195 New collection of add-on tools
3196 ------------------------------
3198 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3199 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3200 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3203 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3205 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3206 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3207 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3209 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3210 ========================
3212 New, general features
3213 ---------------------
3215 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3217 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3218 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3219 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3220 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3221 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3228 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3229 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3231 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3235 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3236 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3237 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3240 Python bindings changes
3241 -----------------------
3243 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3245 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3246 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3247 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3248 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3249 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3250 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3252 Ruby bindings changes
3253 ---------------------
3255 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3256 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3257 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3258 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3263 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3265 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3266 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3268 Reply formatting cleanup
3269 ------------------------
3271 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3272 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3274 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3275 ========================
3277 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3279 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3280 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3281 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3282 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3285 Improved Build system portability
3287 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3288 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3289 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3291 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3293 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3295 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3297 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3298 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3299 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3301 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3302 ========================
3304 Vim interface improvements
3305 --------------------------
3307 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3309 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3310 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3311 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3312 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3313 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3315 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3317 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3318 * fix compose temp file name
3320 Python Bindings changes
3321 -----------------------
3323 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3325 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3326 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3328 Build-System improvements
3329 -------------------------
3331 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3333 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3336 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3337 ==========================
3342 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3344 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3345 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3347 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3348 =======================
3350 New, general features
3351 ---------------------
3353 Folder-based searching
3355 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3356 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3357 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3361 For example, one might use things such as:
3367 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3368 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3370 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3371 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3372 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3373 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3375 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3376 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3377 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3380 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3381 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3383 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3385 Support for PGP/MIME
3387 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3388 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3389 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3391 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3393 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3394 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3396 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3397 notmuch will receive these tags.
3399 New command-line features
3400 -------------------------
3402 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3404 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3405 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3407 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3409 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3410 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3411 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3413 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3415 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3416 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3417 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3418 which parts a signature part applies).
3420 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3422 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3423 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3424 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3425 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3426 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3429 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3431 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3432 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3433 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3434 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3435 by translating it internally to the new call.
3437 Performance improvements
3438 ------------------------
3440 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3442 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3443 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3444 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3446 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3447 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3449 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3451 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3452 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3453 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3455 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3456 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3457 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3458 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3460 Faster initial indexing
3462 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3463 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3464 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3466 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3468 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3469 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3470 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3471 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3473 New emacs-interface features
3474 ----------------------------
3476 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3478 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3479 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3480 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3481 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3482 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3483 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3485 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3487 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3488 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3489 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3490 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3492 User-selectable From address
3494 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3495 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3496 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3497 will prompt for the from address to use.
3499 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3500 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3501 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3503 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3504 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3505 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3508 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3510 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3511 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3513 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3515 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3517 ----- Original Message -----
3519 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3520 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3521 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3522 citations work much like conventional citations.
3524 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3526 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3527 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3528 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3529 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3530 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3532 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3533 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3535 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3537 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3538 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3539 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3541 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3543 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3544 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3545 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3546 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3547 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3549 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3551 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3554 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3556 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3558 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3560 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3563 Vim interface improvements
3564 --------------------------
3566 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3568 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3569 * Implementing archive in show view
3570 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3571 * Add delete commands
3574 Bindings improvements
3575 ---------------------
3577 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3579 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3580 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3582 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3584 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3588 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3589 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3590 `list(Messages)` works now
3591 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3593 These allow, for example:
3595 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3597 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3599 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3605 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3607 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3610 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3612 New build-system features
3613 -------------------------
3615 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3617 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3618 the configure script from some other directory:
3625 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3627 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3628 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3629 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3630 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3631 manual invocation of configure.
3633 New test-suite feature
3634 ----------------------
3636 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3638 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3639 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3640 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3641 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3642 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3645 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3647 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3648 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3649 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3650 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3651 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3652 are updated to take advantage of this.
3654 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3656 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3657 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3658 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3659 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3665 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3667 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3668 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3669 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3671 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3673 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3675 to:user@elsewhere.com
3677 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3679 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3681 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3683 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3684 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3685 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3688 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3689 from the Received headers in some cases
3691 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3692 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3694 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3696 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3698 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3700 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3701 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3702 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3704 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3705 -------------------------
3707 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3709 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3710 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3711 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3713 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3715 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3716 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3717 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3720 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3722 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3723 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3724 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3725 fixed to avoid this bug.
3727 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3729 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3730 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3732 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3733 ========================
3735 New, general features
3736 ---------------------
3738 Maildir-flag synchronization
3740 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3741 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3750 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3752 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3753 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3754 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3755 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3757 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3758 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3759 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3760 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3763 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3765 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3766 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3767 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3769 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3770 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3772 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3773 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3775 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3776 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3777 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3779 New library features
3780 --------------------
3782 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3784 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3785 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3786 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3787 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3789 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3790 message with the new function:
3792 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3794 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3795 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3796 over all available filenames for a given message.
3798 New command-line features
3799 -------------------------
3801 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3803 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3804 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3805 access to the mail store itself.
3807 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3808 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3809 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3810 name of a script containing:
3812 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3814 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3815 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3821 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3823 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3825 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3827 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3828 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3829 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3830 now produces nothing).
3832 Emacs interface improvements
3833 ----------------------------
3835 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3837 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3839 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3841 Display current thread subject in a header line
3843 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3845 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3847 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3848 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3849 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3850 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3851 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3852 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3853 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3855 Vim interface improvements
3856 --------------------------
3858 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3860 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3861 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3867 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3869 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3870 ========================
3872 New command-line features
3873 -------------------------
3875 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3877 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3878 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3879 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3881 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3882 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3883 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3884 scripts. For example:
3886 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3887 <operations-on> "$file"
3890 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3892 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3893 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3894 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3895 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3896 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3897 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3899 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3901 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3902 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3903 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3904 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3906 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3908 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3909 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3910 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3911 default rather than Bcc.
3913 New library features
3914 --------------------
3916 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3918 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3919 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3924 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3926 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3927 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3928 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3929 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3930 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3931 notmuch customize interface.
3933 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3935 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3936 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3937 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3938 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3940 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3942 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3943 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3944 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3945 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3947 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3949 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3950 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3951 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3952 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3953 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3954 notmuch customize interface.
3956 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3958 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3959 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3960 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3961 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3962 notmuch customize interface.
3964 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3966 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3967 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3968 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3969 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3972 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3974 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3975 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3976 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3979 New build-system features
3980 -------------------------
3982 Various portability fixes have been applied
3984 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3985 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3986 more portable than ever before.
3988 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3990 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3991 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3992 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3994 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3995 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3996 automatically run ldconfig.
3998 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3999 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4000 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4002 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4003 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4004 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4005 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4007 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4009 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4010 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4011 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4012 used in the resulting Makefile.
4014 New test-suite features
4015 -----------------------
4017 New modularization of test suite
4019 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4020 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4021 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4022 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4023 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4024 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4025 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4026 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4028 New testing of emacs interface
4030 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4031 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4032 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4033 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4034 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4035 database via the FCC setting.
4040 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4042 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4043 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4044 persistent error of the form:
4046 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4048 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4049 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4051 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4053 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4054 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4055 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4057 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4059 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4060 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4061 parsing the notmuch results).
4063 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4065 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4068 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4069 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4070 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4075 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4077 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4078 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4079 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4080 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4081 the emacs interface.
4083 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4085 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4086 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4087 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4089 Python-binding fixes
4090 --------------------
4092 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4094 Debian-specific fixes
4095 ---------------------
4097 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4099 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4100 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4101 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4104 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4105 ==========================
4110 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4112 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4113 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4114 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4115 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4117 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4119 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4120 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4121 want notmuch to crash.
4126 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4128 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4129 directory does not exist
4134 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4136 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4137 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4139 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4140 ========================
4142 New command-line features
4143 -------------------------
4145 User-configurable tags for new messages
4147 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4148 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4149 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4150 to specify this value.
4152 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4154 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4155 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4156 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4158 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4160 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4161 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4163 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4165 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4166 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4167 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4168 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4169 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4172 Indication of author names that match a search
4174 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4175 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4176 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4177 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4178 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4179 messages in the thread are listed first.
4181 New: Python bindings
4182 --------------------
4184 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4185 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4186 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4187 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4189 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4190 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4191 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4194 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4195 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4196 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4198 Emacs interface improvements
4199 ----------------------------
4201 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4203 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4204 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4205 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4206 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4207 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4208 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4209 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4210 but without any of the disadvantages).
4212 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4213 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4214 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4217 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4218 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4219 instead running something like:
4221 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4223 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4224 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4225 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4228 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4230 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4231 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4232 tweaked by the user.
4234 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4235 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4236 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4239 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4240 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4241 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4244 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4246 This support currently relies on an external program,
4247 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4248 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4249 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4250 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4251 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4254 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4255 notmuch) is available via:
4257 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4259 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4260 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4261 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4263 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4265 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4266 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4267 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4268 making this automatic in a future release.
4270 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4272 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4273 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4274 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4275 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4276 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4277 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4280 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4282 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4283 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4284 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4286 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4288 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4289 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4290 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4292 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4293 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4294 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4295 other representation.
4297 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4298 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4301 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4303 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4304 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4305 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4307 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4308 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4309 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4311 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4313 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4314 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4315 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4316 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4317 to display the search result.
4319 More flexible handling of header visibility
4321 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4322 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4323 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4324 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4325 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4326 with the 'h' keybinding.
4328 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4329 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4330 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4332 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4334 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4336 Customizable formatting of search results
4338 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4339 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4340 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4342 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4344 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4346 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4351 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4353 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4354 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4355 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4356 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4362 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4364 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4365 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4367 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4369 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4370 accept are now all accepted.
4375 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4377 Better display of output from failed tests
4379 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4380 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4382 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4383 ========================
4385 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4386 detailed release notes this time!
4388 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4389 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4391 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4392 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4393 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4394 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4401 Better guessing of From: header
4403 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4404 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4405 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4406 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4407 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4410 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4412 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4413 guaranteed to match all messages.
4415 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4417 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4418 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4419 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4420 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4421 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4424 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4427 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4428 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4429 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4430 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4435 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4437 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4438 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4439 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4440 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4442 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4444 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4446 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4447 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4448 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4450 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4452 Previously, the user might see:
4454 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4458 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4460 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4461 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4462 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4463 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4465 Emacs client features
4466 ---------------------
4468 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4470 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4471 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4472 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4473 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4474 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4476 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4479 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4480 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4481 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4482 search with the '*' binding.
4484 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4486 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4487 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4490 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4492 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4493 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4494 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4496 Build-system features
4497 ---------------------
4499 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4501 Add support to configure for many standard options
4503 We include actual support for:
4505 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4507 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4509 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4510 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4512 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4513 separate "make install-emacs"
4515 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4517 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4518 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4519 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4521 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4524 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4525 ========================
4527 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4529 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4530 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4532 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4533 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4534 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4535 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4536 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4537 tags from messages in a thread.
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