1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
19 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
20 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
21 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
23 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
25 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
26 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
27 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
28 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
29 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
30 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
35 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
36 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
39 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
42 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
44 Command Line Interface
45 ----------------------
47 Database revision tracking
49 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
50 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
51 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
52 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
54 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
56 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
57 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
58 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
59 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
60 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
61 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
62 manual page for further information.
67 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
69 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
70 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
72 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
74 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
75 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
76 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
78 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
80 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
82 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
83 customization as well.
85 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
87 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
89 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
90 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
91 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
92 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
94 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
96 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
97 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
98 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
99 this variable to 10000.
104 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
105 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
107 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
109 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
110 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
111 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
112 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
113 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
114 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
115 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
116 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
117 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
120 Database revision tracking
122 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
123 query parser and the new function
124 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
126 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
130 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
131 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
132 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
133 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
138 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
140 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
141 ===========================
146 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
148 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
149 ===========================
154 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
156 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
157 =========================
159 Command-Line Interface
160 ----------------------
162 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
164 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
165 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
166 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
168 Path to gpg is now configurable
170 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
171 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
176 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
178 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
183 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
188 Support messages without Message-IDs.
193 Undeprecate single message mboxes
195 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
196 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
198 New error logging facility
200 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
201 output formerly printed to stderr.
203 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
205 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
207 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
209 Fix for rounding of seconds
214 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
216 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
217 docmumentation has been removed.
219 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
221 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
222 some material from the relicensed wiki.
227 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
228 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
229 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
234 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
235 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
236 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
237 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
238 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
239 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
242 git checkout config origin/config
244 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
246 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
247 =========================
252 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
253 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
254 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
255 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
256 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
257 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
258 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
260 Command-Line Interface
261 ----------------------
263 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
265 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
266 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
267 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
268 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
269 script callers should still check the return value.
271 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
273 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
274 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
275 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
276 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
277 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
278 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
279 and returning success even if indexing fails).
281 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
283 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
284 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
285 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
287 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
289 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
290 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
291 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
292 currently unmaintained.
294 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
296 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
297 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
298 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
299 have at least `N` files associated with them.
301 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
303 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
304 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
305 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
306 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
307 count of duplicate addresses.
312 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
314 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
315 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
316 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
319 Improved handling of the unread tag
321 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
322 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
323 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
324 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
325 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
326 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
327 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
329 Expanded default saved search settings
331 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
332 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
334 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
336 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
337 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
338 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
340 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
342 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
343 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
344 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
345 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
346 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
347 the variable for details.
352 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
354 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
355 Representing these independently of the database version number will
356 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
357 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
359 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
361 Previously, library users were required to call
362 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
363 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
364 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
365 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
366 too out of date for that API.
368 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
370 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
371 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
372 atomic section will be aborted.
374 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
375 `notmuch_database_destroy`
377 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
379 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
380 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
381 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
382 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
383 messages into the same thread.
388 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
389 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
390 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
391 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
392 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
393 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
398 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
399 from the config file. Use something like:
403 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
404 "footer": "</body></html>",
413 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
418 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
419 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
420 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
422 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
423 ===========================
428 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
430 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
432 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
434 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
435 structure for signatures changed slightly.
437 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
439 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
442 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
443 ===========================
445 This is a bug fix and portability release.
450 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
452 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
454 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
456 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
458 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
464 Use --quick when starting emacs
466 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
468 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
470 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
472 Command-Line Interface
473 ----------------------
475 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
476 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
481 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
483 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
484 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
486 Fix for phrase indexing
488 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
489 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
490 will affect only newly indexed messages.
495 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
497 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
498 unintentionally removed.
500 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
501 =========================
506 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
507 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
508 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
509 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
510 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
511 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
512 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
513 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
514 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
520 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
522 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
523 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
524 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
525 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
526 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
527 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
528 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
529 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
531 There is a new `path:` search prefix
533 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
534 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
535 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
536 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
539 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
541 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
542 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
543 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
544 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
545 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
546 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
547 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
552 Notmuch database upgrade
554 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
555 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
556 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
557 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
558 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
559 released version of Notmuch before now.
561 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
563 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
564 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
565 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
566 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
568 Message header parsing changes
570 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
571 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
572 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
573 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
574 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
575 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
577 Command-Line Interface
578 ----------------------
580 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
582 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
584 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
586 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
588 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
590 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
591 user does not want it.
593 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
595 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
596 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
597 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
598 support formatted output.
600 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
602 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
603 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
604 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
612 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
613 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
614 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
615 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
616 `~/.emacs` with these.
618 Changed format for saved searches
620 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
621 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
622 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
623 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
626 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
627 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
628 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
629 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
631 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
632 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
633 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
635 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
636 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
637 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
638 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
639 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
641 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
643 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
644 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
645 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
647 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
649 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
650 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
651 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
652 message had been unread).
654 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
655 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
656 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
657 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
659 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
660 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
661 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
663 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
664 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
665 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
666 to tags already present.
670 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
671 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
672 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
673 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
674 these differ from each other.
675 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
677 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
679 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
680 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
681 for these Emacs versions.
683 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
685 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
686 newlines before calling notmuch count.
688 Bug fixes for sender identities
690 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
691 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
692 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
694 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
696 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
697 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
698 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
699 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
701 Reply pushes mark before signature
703 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
704 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
705 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
707 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
709 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
710 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
716 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
717 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
719 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
720 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
721 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
722 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
724 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
725 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
726 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
727 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
728 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
730 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
732 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
733 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
735 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
736 =========================
738 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
739 ---------------------------------------
741 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
742 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
743 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
744 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
745 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
746 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
747 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
751 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
752 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
754 Command-Line Interface
755 ----------------------
757 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
759 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
760 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
761 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
762 print for each message.
764 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
765 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
766 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
767 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
769 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
771 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
772 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
773 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
775 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
777 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
778 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
779 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
780 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
782 `notmuch compact` command
784 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
785 functionality through a more convenient interface than
786 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
787 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
788 move the compacted database into place.
793 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
795 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
796 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
797 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
798 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
799 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
800 and multiple threads.
804 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
806 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
807 search, show and tree mode itself)
809 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
812 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
813 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
815 Customising `notmuch-tree`
817 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
818 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
819 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
820 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
821 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
822 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
823 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
825 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
827 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
828 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
829 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
830 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
831 thread when the search was performed.
833 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
835 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
836 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
837 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
839 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
841 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
842 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
845 Built-in help improvements
847 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
848 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
849 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
851 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
853 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
854 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
855 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
857 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
859 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
860 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
862 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
864 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
865 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
866 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
867 to move some of them to the common keymap.
869 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
871 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
872 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
873 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
874 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
876 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
878 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
879 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
880 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
882 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
884 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
885 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
886 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
888 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
890 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
891 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
892 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
893 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
894 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
896 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
898 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
899 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
900 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
901 the body part of the message.
906 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
907 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
908 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
910 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
911 =========================
913 Command-Line Interface
914 ----------------------
916 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
918 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
919 folder and notmuch index.
921 `notmuch count --batch` option
923 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
924 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
926 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
928 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
929 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
930 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
933 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
935 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
936 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
937 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
938 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
939 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
942 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
944 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
945 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
947 Top level option to specify configuration file
949 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
950 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
952 Bash command-line completion
954 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
955 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
956 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
957 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
958 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
959 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
960 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
961 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
962 bash-completion package.
964 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
969 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
971 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
972 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
973 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
974 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
975 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
976 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
977 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
978 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
980 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
982 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
983 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
984 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
986 Key bindings for next/previous thread
988 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
989 previous thread in the search results.
991 Better handling of errors in search buffers
993 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
994 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
996 Faster search and show
998 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
999 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1000 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1001 threads should show faster.
1005 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1006 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1007 in question was now removed from this release.
1012 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1013 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1018 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1020 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1021 ===========================
1026 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1028 Internal test framework changes
1029 -------------------------------
1031 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1032 being unimplemented.
1034 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1035 ===========================
1037 Internal test framework changes
1038 -------------------------------
1040 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1041 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1043 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1044 =========================
1049 Date range search support
1051 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1052 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1053 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1054 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1055 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1058 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1060 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1061 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1062 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1063 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1064 but may be removed in a future release.
1066 Command-Line Interface
1067 ----------------------
1069 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1071 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1072 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1074 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1076 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1077 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1078 officially deprecated.
1080 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1082 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1083 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1084 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1086 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1088 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1089 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1092 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1093 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1094 dump/restore format.
1096 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1098 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1099 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1100 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1102 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1104 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1105 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1106 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1108 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1110 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1111 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1112 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1113 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1118 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1120 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1121 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1122 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1123 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1125 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1127 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1128 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1129 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1130 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1131 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1132 the behavior of this, see
1133 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1134 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1136 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1137 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1138 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1140 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1142 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1143 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1146 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1148 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1149 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1150 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1151 simply displayed in place of the message.
1153 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1155 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1156 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1158 Improved text/calendar content handling
1160 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1161 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1162 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1163 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1165 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1167 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1168 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1169 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1170 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1172 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1174 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1175 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1176 for HTML email containing images.
1178 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1180 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1182 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1184 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1187 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1189 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1190 the point where it was.
1192 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1194 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1195 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1196 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1197 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1198 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1200 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1202 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1203 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1204 thread instead of the message id.
1206 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1207 -----------------------------
1209 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1210 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1211 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1212 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1213 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1214 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1215 further details and installation.
1220 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1222 Internal test framework changes
1223 -------------------------------
1225 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1227 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1228 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1229 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1230 can result in buggy behavior.
1232 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1233 =========================
1238 Maildir tag synchronization
1240 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1241 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1242 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1243 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1244 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1245 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1248 Command-Line Interface
1249 ----------------------
1251 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1252 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1253 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1254 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1255 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1261 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1263 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1265 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1266 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1267 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1269 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1271 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1272 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1273 span multiple lines.
1275 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1277 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1278 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1279 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1280 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1281 inside the result or message.
1283 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1285 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1286 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1288 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1289 user-specified formatting
1291 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1292 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1293 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1294 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1295 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1297 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1298 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1300 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1301 ===========================
1306 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1307 compilation error for this contrib package.
1309 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1310 ===========================
1315 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1317 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1318 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1319 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1320 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1322 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1323 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1326 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1327 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1328 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1329 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1332 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1334 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1337 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1338 =========================
1340 Command-Line Interface
1341 ----------------------
1345 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1346 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1347 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1348 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1350 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1351 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1352 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1353 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1357 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1358 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1360 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1361 tag in your query, for example:
1363 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1365 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1366 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1368 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1369 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1371 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1373 Raw show format changes
1375 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1376 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1377 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1378 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1379 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1380 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1381 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1382 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1384 Listing configuration items
1386 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1392 Changes to tagging interface
1394 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1395 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1396 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1397 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1398 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1399 for more information.
1401 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1402 may need to update in custom configurations.
1404 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1406 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1407 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1408 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1409 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1412 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1413 -----------------------------
1415 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1416 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1417 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1418 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1419 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1420 contrib/ from now on.
1425 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1426 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1428 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1429 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1431 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1432 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1433 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1435 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1436 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1438 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1439 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1440 returning the new database object or directory object.
1447 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1448 compatible with go 1.
1450 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1451 =========================
1453 Command-Line Interface
1454 ----------------------
1458 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1459 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1460 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1461 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1463 Mail store folder/file ignore
1465 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1466 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1467 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1469 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1470 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1472 Unified help and manual pages
1474 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1475 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1478 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1480 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1481 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1489 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1490 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1491 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1492 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1494 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1496 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1497 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1499 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1502 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1503 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1504 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1506 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1508 should be changed to:
1510 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1512 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1514 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1515 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1517 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1519 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1520 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1521 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1522 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1523 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1524 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1528 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1529 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1530 of Mailing List Archives.
1532 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1534 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1535 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1538 Show view archiving key binding changes
1540 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1541 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1542 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1543 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1544 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1547 Support text/calendar MIME type
1549 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1552 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1554 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1555 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1556 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1557 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1559 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1561 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1562 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1563 messages blue by default in the search view.
1567 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1568 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1575 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1578 Python bindings changes
1579 -----------------------
1581 Python 3.2 compatibility
1583 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1585 Added missing unicode conversions
1587 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1588 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1589 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1594 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1596 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1597 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1598 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1599 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1600 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1602 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1603 ===========================
1608 Fix error handling in python bindings
1610 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1611 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1612 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1613 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1615 Quote MML tags in replies
1617 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1618 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1619 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1620 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1621 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1622 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1623 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1624 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1626 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1627 =========================
1629 Command-Line Interface
1630 ----------------------
1634 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1635 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1636 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1637 importing new messages into the database.
1639 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1641 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1642 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1643 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1648 Automatic tag query optimization
1650 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1651 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1652 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1654 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1656 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1657 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1658 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1663 Reduction of memory leaks
1665 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1666 and fixed in this release.
1673 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1674 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1675 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1678 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1680 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1681 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1682 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1685 Improvements in saved search management
1687 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1688 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1689 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1691 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1693 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1694 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1695 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1697 New face for crypto parts headers
1699 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1700 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1701 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1704 Use space as default thousands separator
1706 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1707 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1708 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1710 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1711 buttonized id: links
1713 New function notmuch-show-advance
1715 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1716 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1717 be bound to SPC with:
1719 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1721 Various performance improvements
1726 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1727 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1730 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1731 ===========================
1736 Fix crash in python bindings
1738 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1739 for some, but not all users.
1741 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1742 ===========================
1747 Fix `--help` argument
1749 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1750 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1751 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1753 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1754 =========================
1756 New build and testing features
1757 ------------------------------
1759 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1760 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1761 prerequisites is improved.
1763 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1765 New command-line features
1766 -------------------------
1768 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1770 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1771 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1774 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1776 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1777 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1778 favour of using stdout.
1780 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1782 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1783 limit the number of results shown.
1785 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1787 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1788 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1791 New emacs UI features
1792 ---------------------
1794 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1796 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1797 starting with "tag:".
1799 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1801 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1802 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1804 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1806 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1808 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1810 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1811 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1816 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1818 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1820 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1821 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1822 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1823 requires a database rebuild:
1825 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1826 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1828 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1830 New collection of add-on tools
1831 ------------------------------
1833 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1834 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1835 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1838 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1840 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1841 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1842 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1844 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1845 ========================
1847 New, general features
1848 ---------------------
1850 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1852 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1853 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1854 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1855 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1856 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1863 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1864 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1866 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1870 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1871 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1872 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1875 Python bindings changes
1876 -----------------------
1878 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1880 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1881 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1882 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1883 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1884 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1885 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1887 Ruby bindings changes
1888 ---------------------
1890 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1891 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1892 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1893 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1898 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1900 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1901 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1903 Reply formatting cleanup
1904 ------------------------
1906 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1907 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1909 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1910 ========================
1912 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1914 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1915 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1916 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1917 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1920 Improved Build system portability
1922 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1923 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1924 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1926 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1928 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1930 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1932 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1933 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1934 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1936 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1937 ========================
1939 Vim interface improvements
1940 --------------------------
1942 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1944 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1945 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1946 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1947 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1948 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1950 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1952 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1953 * fix compose temp file name
1955 Python Bindings changes
1956 -----------------------
1958 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1960 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1961 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1963 Build-System improvements
1964 -------------------------
1966 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1968 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1971 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1972 ==========================
1977 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1979 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1980 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1982 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1983 =======================
1985 New, general features
1986 ---------------------
1988 Folder-based searching
1990 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1991 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1992 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1996 For example, one might use things such as:
2002 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2003 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2005 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2006 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2007 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2008 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2010 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2011 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2012 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2015 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2016 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2018 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2020 Support for PGP/MIME
2022 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2023 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2024 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2026 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2028 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2029 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2031 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2032 notmuch will receive these tags.
2034 New command-line features
2035 -------------------------
2037 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2039 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2040 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2042 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2044 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2045 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2046 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2048 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2050 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2051 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2052 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2053 which parts a signature part applies).
2055 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2057 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2058 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2059 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2060 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2061 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2064 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2066 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2067 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2068 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2069 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2070 by translating it internally to the new call.
2072 Performance improvements
2073 ------------------------
2075 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2077 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2078 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2079 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2081 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2082 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2084 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2086 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2087 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2088 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2090 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2091 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2092 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2093 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2095 Faster initial indexing
2097 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2098 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2099 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2101 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2103 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2104 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2105 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2106 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2108 New emacs-interface features
2109 ----------------------------
2111 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2113 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2114 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2115 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2116 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2117 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2118 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2120 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2122 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2123 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2124 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2125 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2127 User-selectable From address
2129 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2130 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2131 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2132 will prompt for the from address to use.
2134 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2135 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2136 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2138 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2139 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2140 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2143 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2145 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2146 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2148 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2150 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2152 ----- Original Message -----
2154 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2155 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2156 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2157 citations work much like conventional citations.
2159 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2161 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2162 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2163 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2164 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2165 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2167 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2168 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2170 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2172 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2173 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2174 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2176 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2178 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2179 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2180 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2181 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2182 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2184 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2186 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2189 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2191 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2193 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2195 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2198 Vim interface improvements
2199 --------------------------
2201 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2203 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2204 * Implementing archive in show view
2205 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2206 * Add delete commands
2209 Bindings improvements
2210 ---------------------
2212 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2214 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2215 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2217 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2219 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2223 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2224 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2225 `list(Messages)` works now
2226 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2228 These allow, for example:
2230 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2232 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2234 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2240 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2242 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2245 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2247 New build-system features
2248 -------------------------
2250 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2252 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2253 the configure script from some other directory:
2260 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2262 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2263 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2264 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2265 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2266 manual invocation of configure.
2268 New test-suite feature
2269 ----------------------
2271 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2273 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2274 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2275 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2276 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2277 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2280 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2282 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2283 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2284 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2285 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2286 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2287 are updated to take advantage of this.
2289 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2291 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2292 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2293 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2294 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2300 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2302 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2303 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2304 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2306 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2308 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2310 to:user@elsewhere.com
2312 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2314 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2316 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2318 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2319 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2320 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2323 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2324 from the Received headers in some cases
2326 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2327 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2329 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2331 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2333 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2335 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2336 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2337 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2339 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2340 -------------------------
2342 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2344 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2345 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2346 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2348 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2350 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2351 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2352 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2355 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2357 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2358 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2359 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2360 fixed to avoid this bug.
2362 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2364 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2365 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2367 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2368 ========================
2370 New, general features
2371 ---------------------
2373 Maildir-flag synchronization
2375 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2376 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2385 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2387 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2388 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2389 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2390 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2392 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2393 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2394 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2395 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2398 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2400 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2401 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2402 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2404 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2405 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2407 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2408 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2410 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2411 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2412 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2414 New library features
2415 --------------------
2417 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2419 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2420 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2421 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2422 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2424 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2425 message with the new function:
2427 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2429 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2430 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2431 over all available filenames for a given message.
2433 New command-line features
2434 -------------------------
2436 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2438 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2439 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2440 access to the mail store itself.
2442 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2443 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2444 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2445 name of a script containing:
2447 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2449 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2450 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2456 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2458 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2460 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2462 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2463 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2464 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2465 now produces nothing).
2467 Emacs interface improvements
2468 ----------------------------
2470 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2472 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2474 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2476 Display current thread subject in a header line
2478 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2480 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2482 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2483 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2484 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2485 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2486 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2487 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2488 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2490 Vim interface improvements
2491 --------------------------
2493 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2495 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2496 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2502 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2504 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2505 ========================
2507 New command-line features
2508 -------------------------
2510 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2512 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2513 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2514 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2516 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2517 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2518 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2519 scripts. For example:
2521 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2522 <operations-on> "$file"
2525 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2527 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2528 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2529 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2530 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2531 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2532 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2534 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2536 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2537 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2538 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2539 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2541 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2543 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2544 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2545 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2546 default rather than Bcc.
2548 New library features
2549 --------------------
2551 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2553 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2554 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2559 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2561 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2562 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2563 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2564 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2565 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2566 notmuch customize interface.
2568 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2570 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2571 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2572 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2573 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2575 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2577 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2578 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2579 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2580 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2582 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2584 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2585 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2586 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2587 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2588 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2589 notmuch customize interface.
2591 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2593 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2594 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2595 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2596 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2597 notmuch customize interface.
2599 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2601 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2602 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2603 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2604 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2607 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2609 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2610 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2611 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2614 New build-system features
2615 -------------------------
2617 Various portability fixes have been applied
2619 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2620 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2621 more portable than ever before.
2623 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2625 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2626 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2627 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2629 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2630 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2631 automatically run ldconfig.
2633 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2634 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2635 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2637 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2638 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2639 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2640 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2642 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2644 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2645 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2646 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2647 used in the resulting Makefile.
2649 New test-suite features
2650 -----------------------
2652 New modularization of test suite
2654 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2655 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2656 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2657 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2658 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2659 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2660 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2661 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2663 New testing of emacs interface
2665 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2666 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2667 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2668 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2669 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2670 database via the FCC setting.
2675 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2677 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2678 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2679 persistent error of the form:
2681 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2683 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2684 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2686 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2688 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2689 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2690 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2692 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2694 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2695 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2696 parsing the notmuch results).
2698 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2700 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2703 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2704 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2705 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2710 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2712 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2713 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2714 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2715 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2716 the emacs interface.
2718 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2720 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2721 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2722 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2724 Python-binding fixes
2725 --------------------
2727 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2729 Debian-specific fixes
2730 ---------------------
2732 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2734 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2735 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2736 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2739 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2740 ==========================
2745 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2747 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2748 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2749 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2750 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2752 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2754 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2755 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2756 want notmuch to crash.
2761 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2763 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2764 directory does not exist
2769 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2771 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2772 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2774 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2775 ========================
2777 New command-line features
2778 -------------------------
2780 User-configurable tags for new messages
2782 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2783 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2784 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2785 to specify this value.
2787 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2789 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2790 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2791 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2793 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2795 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2796 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2798 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2800 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2801 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2802 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2803 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2804 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2807 Indication of author names that match a search
2809 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2810 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2811 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2812 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2813 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2814 messages in the thread are listed first.
2816 New: Python bindings
2817 --------------------
2819 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2820 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2821 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2822 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2824 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2825 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2826 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2829 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2830 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2831 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2833 Emacs interface improvements
2834 ----------------------------
2836 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2838 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2839 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2840 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2841 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2842 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2843 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2844 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2845 but without any of the disadvantages).
2847 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2848 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2849 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2852 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2853 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2854 instead running something like:
2856 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2858 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2859 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2860 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2863 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2865 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2866 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2867 tweaked by the user.
2869 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2870 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2871 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2874 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2875 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2876 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2879 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2881 This support currently relies on an external program,
2882 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2883 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2884 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2885 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2886 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2889 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2890 notmuch) is available via:
2892 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2894 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2895 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2896 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2898 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2900 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2901 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2902 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2903 making this automatic in a future release.
2905 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2907 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2908 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2909 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2910 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2911 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2912 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2915 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2917 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2918 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2919 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2921 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2923 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2924 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2925 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2927 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2928 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2929 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2930 other representation.
2932 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2933 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2936 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2938 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2939 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2940 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2942 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2943 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2944 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2946 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2948 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2949 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2950 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2951 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2952 to display the search result.
2954 More flexible handling of header visibility
2956 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2957 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2958 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2959 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2960 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2961 with the 'h' keybinding.
2963 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2964 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2965 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2967 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2969 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2971 Customizable formatting of search results
2973 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2974 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2975 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2977 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2979 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2981 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2986 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2988 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2989 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2990 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2991 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2997 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2999 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3000 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3002 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3004 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3005 accept are now all accepted.
3010 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3012 Better display of output from failed tests
3014 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3015 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3017 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3018 ========================
3020 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3021 detailed release notes this time!
3023 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3024 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3026 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3027 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3028 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3029 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3036 Better guessing of From: header
3038 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3039 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3040 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3041 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3042 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3045 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3047 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3048 guaranteed to match all messages.
3050 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3052 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3053 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3054 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3055 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3056 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3059 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3062 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3063 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3064 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3065 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3070 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3072 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3073 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3074 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3075 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3077 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3079 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3081 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3082 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3083 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3085 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3087 Previously, the user might see:
3089 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3093 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3095 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3096 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3097 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3098 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3100 Emacs client features
3101 ---------------------
3103 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3105 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3106 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3107 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3108 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3109 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3111 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3114 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3115 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3116 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3117 search with the '*' binding.
3119 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3121 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3122 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3125 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3127 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3128 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3129 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3131 Build-system features
3132 ---------------------
3134 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3136 Add support to configure for many standard options
3138 We include actual support for:
3140 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3142 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3144 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3145 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3147 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3148 separate "make install-emacs"
3150 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3152 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3153 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3154 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3156 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3159 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3160 ========================
3162 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3164 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3165 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3167 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3168 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3169 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3170 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3171 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3172 tags from messages in a thread.
3179 indent-tabs-mode: nil