1 Notmuch 0.27 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
8 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
10 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
11 ===========================
16 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`.
18 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
19 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
20 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
22 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
24 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
25 related abort in `notmuch show`.
27 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
28 ===========================
33 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
34 better late than never.
37 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
38 =========================
40 Command Line Interface
41 ----------------------
43 Support for re-indexing existing messages
45 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
46 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
47 change the way specific messages are indexed.
49 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
50 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
51 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
53 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
55 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
57 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
59 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
60 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
61 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
62 the setting of `new.tags`.
64 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
66 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
68 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
70 This inserts into the top level folder.
72 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
74 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
76 New option --output=address for notmuch address
78 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
80 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
82 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
83 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
84 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
86 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
91 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
93 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
94 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
95 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
96 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
97 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
98 config set index.decrypt true".
100 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
101 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
102 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
103 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
104 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
105 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
106 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
107 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
109 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
110 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
111 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
112 this feature without considering the security of your index.
117 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
119 Use make-process when available
121 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
122 notmuch command without using temporary files.
127 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
129 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
130 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
131 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
132 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
134 New functions to count files
136 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
137 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
139 New function to remove properties
141 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
142 drop all properties with a common pattern:
143 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
145 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
147 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
148 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
149 possibility of NULL was not documented.
151 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
153 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
154 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
155 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
156 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
157 operator may decide to change from message to message.
164 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
165 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
166 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
172 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
174 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
175 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
177 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
179 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
181 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
183 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
188 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
189 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
191 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
192 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
193 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
194 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
195 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
196 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
201 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
203 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
204 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
205 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
206 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
208 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
209 ===========================
214 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
215 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
218 Command Line Interface
219 ----------------------
221 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
222 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
225 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
226 ===========================
228 Command Line Interface
229 ----------------------
231 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
232 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
237 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
240 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
241 ===========================
246 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
249 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
250 =========================
255 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
257 Skip HTML tags when indexing
259 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
261 Command Line Interface
262 ----------------------
264 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
266 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
271 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
273 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
274 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
277 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
282 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
284 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
285 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
287 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
289 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
290 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
293 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
295 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
297 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
299 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
300 ===========================
302 Command Line Interface
303 ----------------------
305 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
310 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
312 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
313 ===========================
318 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
320 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
321 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
324 Command Line Interface
325 ----------------------
327 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
329 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
331 Fix bug in dump header
333 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
334 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
335 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
340 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
342 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
343 =========================
348 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
350 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
353 Command Line Interface
354 ----------------------
356 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
358 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
359 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
360 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
362 New default output format to 3
364 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
365 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
366 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
367 default format changes.
372 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
374 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
375 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
376 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
377 or tree view to resume.
379 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
380 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
381 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
384 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
385 they were when you postponed in the final message.
389 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
390 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
391 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
392 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
393 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
397 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
398 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
399 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
400 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
401 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
402 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
406 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
407 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
409 Stop display of `application/*` parts
411 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
412 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
413 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
414 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
415 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
416 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
417 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
418 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
421 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
423 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
424 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
425 only tagged the current thread.)
427 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
429 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
430 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
431 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
433 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
435 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
436 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
437 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
438 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
439 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
440 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
441 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
443 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
445 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
446 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
447 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
452 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
454 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
457 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
459 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
462 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
463 ===========================
468 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
470 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
471 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
472 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
475 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
476 ===========================
478 Command Line Interface
479 ----------------------
481 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
486 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
488 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
489 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
490 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
492 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
493 ===========================
498 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
499 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
501 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
502 ===========================
504 Command Line Interface
505 ----------------------
507 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
509 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
510 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
511 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
516 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
518 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
519 ===========================
521 Command Line Interface
522 ----------------------
524 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
529 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
531 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
532 ===========================
537 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
539 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
540 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
541 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
543 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
545 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
547 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
548 ===========================
553 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
555 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
560 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
562 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
563 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
564 the original colours.
566 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
567 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
569 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
571 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
572 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
573 bug, and hence the test.
575 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
576 =========================
578 General (Xapian 1.4+)
579 ---------------------
581 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
583 Support for single argument date: queries
585 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
587 Support for blocking opens
589 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
590 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
592 Support for named queries
594 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
595 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
596 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
603 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
604 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
605 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
606 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
608 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
610 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
615 Support for compile time options
617 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
618 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
621 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
623 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
624 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
625 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
626 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
627 scripts to ignore it.
632 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
634 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
635 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
636 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
638 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
639 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
640 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
641 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
642 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
643 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
644 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
646 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
647 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
650 Make internal address completion customizable
652 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
653 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
654 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
655 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
658 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
660 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
661 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
662 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
663 completion for the current buffer.
665 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
666 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
667 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
671 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
672 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
673 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
674 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
675 will be added instead.
677 Face customization is easier
679 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
680 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
681 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
682 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
684 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
689 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
694 Go bindings moved to contrib
696 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
698 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
700 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
701 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
703 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
705 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
706 ===========================
713 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
714 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
716 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
718 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
720 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
721 ===========================
726 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
728 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
733 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
738 Use `env` to locate perl.
743 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
745 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
747 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
749 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
751 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
752 =========================
759 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
760 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
762 Limited support for S/MIME messages
764 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
765 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
766 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
771 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
772 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
773 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
775 Command Line Interface
776 ----------------------
778 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
780 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
785 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
790 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
792 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
793 parts are now included in replies.
795 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
796 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
797 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
798 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
800 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
802 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
804 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
806 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
807 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
808 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
809 forwards only the current message.
811 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
813 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
814 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
815 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
816 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
817 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
818 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
819 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
820 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
823 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
824 longer generate empty buffers
826 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
827 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
828 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
829 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
830 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
832 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
834 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
837 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
839 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
842 Address completion improvements
844 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
845 you previously configured one, customize the variable
846 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
847 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
848 interactive address completion.
850 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
852 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
853 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
854 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
859 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
860 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
861 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
867 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
868 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
869 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
870 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
871 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
872 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
874 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
875 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
876 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
877 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
878 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
879 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
881 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
882 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
884 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
885 =========================
890 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
893 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
895 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
896 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
897 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
899 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
900 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
902 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
903 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
904 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
906 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
908 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
909 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
910 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
911 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
912 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
913 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
918 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
919 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
922 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
925 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
927 Command Line Interface
928 ----------------------
930 Database revision tracking
932 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
933 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
934 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
935 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
937 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
939 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
940 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
941 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
942 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
943 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
944 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
945 manual page for further information.
950 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
952 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
953 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
955 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
957 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
958 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
959 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
961 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
963 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
965 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
966 customization as well.
968 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
970 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
972 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
974 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
976 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
977 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
978 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
979 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
981 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
983 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
984 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
985 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
986 this variable to 10000.
991 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
992 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
994 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
996 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
997 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
998 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
999 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1000 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1001 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1002 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1003 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1004 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1007 Database revision tracking
1009 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1010 query parser and the new function
1011 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1013 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1015 Deprecated functions
1017 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1018 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1019 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1020 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1025 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1027 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1028 ===========================
1033 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1035 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1036 ===========================
1041 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1043 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1044 =========================
1046 Command-Line Interface
1047 ----------------------
1049 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1051 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1052 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1053 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1055 Path to gpg is now configurable
1057 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1058 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1063 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1065 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1070 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1075 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1080 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1082 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1083 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1085 New error logging facility
1087 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1088 output formerly printed to stderr.
1090 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1092 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1094 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1096 Fix for rounding of seconds
1101 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1103 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1104 documentation has been removed.
1106 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1108 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1109 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1114 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1115 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1116 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1121 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1122 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1123 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1124 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1125 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1126 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1129 git checkout config origin/config
1131 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1133 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1134 =========================
1139 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1140 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1141 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1142 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1143 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1144 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1145 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1147 Command-Line Interface
1148 ----------------------
1150 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1152 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1153 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1154 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1155 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1156 script callers should still check the return value.
1158 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1160 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1161 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1162 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1163 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1164 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1165 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1166 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1168 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1170 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1171 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1172 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1174 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1176 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1177 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1178 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1179 currently unmaintained.
1181 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1183 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1184 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1185 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1186 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1188 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1190 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1191 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1192 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1193 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1194 count of duplicate addresses.
1199 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1201 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1202 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1203 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1206 Improved handling of the unread tag
1208 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1209 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1210 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1211 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1212 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1213 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1214 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1216 Expanded default saved search settings
1218 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1219 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1221 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1223 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1224 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1225 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1227 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1229 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1230 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1231 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1232 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1233 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1234 the variable for details.
1239 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1241 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1242 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1243 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1244 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1246 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1248 Previously, library users were required to call
1249 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1250 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1251 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1252 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1253 too out of date for that API.
1255 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1257 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1258 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1259 atomic section will be aborted.
1261 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1262 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1264 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1266 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1267 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1268 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1269 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1270 messages into the same thread.
1275 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1276 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1277 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1278 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1279 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1280 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1285 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1286 from the config file. Use something like:
1290 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1291 "footer": "</body></html>",
1300 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1305 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1306 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1307 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1309 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1310 ===========================
1315 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1317 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1319 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1321 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1322 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1324 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1326 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1329 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1330 ===========================
1332 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1337 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1339 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1341 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1343 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1345 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1351 Use --quick when starting emacs
1353 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1355 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1357 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1359 Command-Line Interface
1360 ----------------------
1362 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1363 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1368 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1370 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1371 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1373 Fix for phrase indexing
1375 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1376 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1377 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1382 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1384 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1385 unintentionally removed.
1387 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1388 =========================
1393 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1394 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1395 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1396 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1397 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1398 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1399 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1400 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1401 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1407 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1409 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1410 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1411 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1412 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1413 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1414 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1415 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1416 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1418 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1420 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1421 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1422 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1423 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1426 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1428 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1429 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1430 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1431 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1432 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1433 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1434 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1439 Notmuch database upgrade
1441 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1442 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1443 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1444 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1445 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1446 released version of Notmuch before now.
1448 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1450 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1451 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1452 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1453 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1455 Message header parsing changes
1457 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1458 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1459 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1460 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1461 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1462 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1464 Command-Line Interface
1465 ----------------------
1467 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1469 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1471 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1473 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1475 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1477 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1478 user does not want it.
1480 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1482 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1483 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1484 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1485 support formatted output.
1487 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1489 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1490 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1491 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1499 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1500 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1501 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1502 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1503 `~/.emacs` with these.
1505 Changed format for saved searches
1507 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1508 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1509 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1510 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1513 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1514 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1515 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1516 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1518 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1519 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1520 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1522 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1523 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1524 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1525 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1526 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1528 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1530 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1531 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1532 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1534 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1536 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1537 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1538 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1539 message had been unread).
1541 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1542 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1543 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1544 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1546 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1547 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1548 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1550 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1551 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1552 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1553 to tags already present.
1557 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1558 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1559 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1560 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1561 these differ from each other.
1562 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1564 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1566 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1567 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1568 for these Emacs versions.
1570 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1572 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1573 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1575 Bug fixes for sender identities
1577 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1578 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1579 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1581 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1583 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1584 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1585 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1586 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1588 Reply pushes mark before signature
1590 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1591 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1592 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1594 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1596 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1597 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1603 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1604 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1606 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1607 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1608 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1609 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1611 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1612 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1613 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1614 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1615 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1617 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1619 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1620 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1622 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1623 =========================
1625 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1626 ---------------------------------------
1628 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1629 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1630 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1631 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1632 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1633 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1634 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1638 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1639 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1641 Command-Line Interface
1642 ----------------------
1644 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1646 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1647 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1648 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1649 print for each message.
1651 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1652 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1653 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1654 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1656 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1658 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1659 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1660 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1662 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1664 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1665 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1666 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1667 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1669 `notmuch compact` command
1671 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1672 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1673 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1674 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1675 move the compacted database into place.
1680 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1682 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1683 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1684 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1685 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1686 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1687 and multiple threads.
1689 Using `notmuch-tree`
1691 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1693 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1694 search, show and tree mode itself)
1696 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1699 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1700 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1702 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1704 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1705 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1706 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1707 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1708 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1709 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1710 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1712 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1714 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1715 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1716 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1717 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1718 thread when the search was performed.
1720 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1722 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1723 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1724 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1726 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1728 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1729 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1732 Built-in help improvements
1734 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1735 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1736 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1738 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1740 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1741 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1742 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1744 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1746 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1747 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1749 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1751 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1752 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1753 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1754 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1756 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1758 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1759 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1760 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1761 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1763 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1765 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1766 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1767 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1769 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1771 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1772 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1773 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1775 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1777 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1778 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1779 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1780 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1781 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1783 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1785 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1786 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1787 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1788 the body part of the message.
1793 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1794 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1795 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1797 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1798 =========================
1800 Command-Line Interface
1801 ----------------------
1803 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1805 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1806 folder and notmuch index.
1808 `notmuch count --batch` option
1810 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1811 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1813 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1815 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1816 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1817 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1820 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1822 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1823 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1824 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1825 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1826 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1829 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1831 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1832 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1834 Top level option to specify configuration file
1836 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1837 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1839 Bash command-line completion
1841 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1842 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1843 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1844 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1845 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1846 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1847 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1848 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1849 bash-completion package.
1851 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1856 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1858 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1859 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1860 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1861 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1862 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1863 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1864 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1865 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1867 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1869 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1870 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1871 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1873 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1875 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1876 previous thread in the search results.
1878 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1880 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1881 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1883 Faster search and show
1885 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1886 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1887 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1888 threads should show faster.
1892 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1893 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1894 in question was now removed from this release.
1899 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1900 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1905 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1907 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1908 ===========================
1913 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1915 Internal test framework changes
1916 -------------------------------
1918 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1919 being unimplemented.
1921 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1922 ===========================
1924 Internal test framework changes
1925 -------------------------------
1927 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1928 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1930 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1931 =========================
1936 Date range search support
1938 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1939 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1940 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1941 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1942 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1945 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1947 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1948 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1949 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1950 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1951 but may be removed in a future release.
1953 Command-Line Interface
1954 ----------------------
1956 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1958 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1959 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1961 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1963 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1964 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1965 officially deprecated.
1967 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1969 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1970 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1971 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1973 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1975 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1976 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1979 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1980 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1981 dump/restore format.
1983 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1985 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1986 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1987 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1989 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1991 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1992 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1993 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1995 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1997 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1998 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1999 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2000 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2005 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2007 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2008 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2009 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2010 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2012 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2014 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2015 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2016 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2017 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2018 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2019 the behavior of this, see
2020 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2021 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2023 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2024 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2025 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2027 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2029 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2030 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2033 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2035 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2036 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2037 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2038 simply displayed in place of the message.
2040 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2042 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2043 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2045 Improved text/calendar content handling
2047 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2048 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2049 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2050 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2052 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2054 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2055 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2056 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2057 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2059 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2061 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2062 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2063 for HTML email containing images.
2065 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2067 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2069 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2071 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2074 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2076 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2077 the point where it was.
2079 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2081 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2082 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2083 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2084 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2085 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2087 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2089 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2090 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2091 thread instead of the message id.
2093 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2094 -----------------------------
2096 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2097 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2098 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2099 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2100 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2101 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2102 further details and installation.
2107 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2109 Internal test framework changes
2110 -------------------------------
2112 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2114 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2115 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2116 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2117 can result in buggy behavior.
2119 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2120 =========================
2125 Maildir tag synchronization
2127 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2128 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2129 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2130 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2131 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2132 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2135 Command-Line Interface
2136 ----------------------
2138 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2139 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2140 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2141 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2142 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2148 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2150 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2152 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2153 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2154 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2156 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2158 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2159 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2160 span multiple lines.
2162 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2164 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2165 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2166 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2167 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2168 inside the result or message.
2170 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2172 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2173 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2175 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2176 user-specified formatting
2178 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2179 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2180 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2181 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2182 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2184 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2185 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2187 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2188 ===========================
2193 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2194 compilation error for this contrib package.
2196 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2197 ===========================
2202 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2204 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2205 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2206 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2207 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2209 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2210 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2213 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2214 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2215 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2216 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2219 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2221 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2224 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2225 =========================
2227 Command-Line Interface
2228 ----------------------
2232 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2233 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2234 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2235 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2237 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2238 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2239 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2240 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2244 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2245 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2247 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2248 tag in your query, for example:
2250 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2252 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2253 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2255 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2256 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2258 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2260 Raw show format changes
2262 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2263 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2264 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2265 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2266 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2267 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2268 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2269 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2271 Listing configuration items
2273 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2279 Changes to tagging interface
2281 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2282 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2283 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2284 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2285 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2286 for more information.
2288 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2289 may need to update in custom configurations.
2291 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2293 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2294 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2295 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2296 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2299 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2300 -----------------------------
2302 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2303 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2304 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2305 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2306 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2307 contrib/ from now on.
2312 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2313 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2315 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2316 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2318 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2319 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2320 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2322 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2323 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2325 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2326 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2327 returning the new database object or directory object.
2334 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2335 compatible with go 1.
2337 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2338 =========================
2340 Command-Line Interface
2341 ----------------------
2345 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2346 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2347 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2348 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2350 Mail store folder/file ignore
2352 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2353 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2354 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2356 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2357 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2359 Unified help and manual pages
2361 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2362 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2365 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2367 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2368 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2376 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2377 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2378 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2379 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2381 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2383 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2384 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2386 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2389 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2390 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2391 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2393 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2395 should be changed to:
2397 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2399 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2401 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2402 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2404 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2406 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2407 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2408 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2409 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2410 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2411 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2415 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2416 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2417 of Mailing List Archives.
2419 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2421 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2422 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2425 Show view archiving key binding changes
2427 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2428 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2429 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2430 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2431 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2434 Support text/calendar MIME type
2436 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2439 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2441 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2442 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2443 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2444 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2446 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2448 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2449 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2450 messages blue by default in the search view.
2454 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2455 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2462 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2465 Python bindings changes
2466 -----------------------
2468 Python 3.2 compatibility
2470 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2472 Added missing unicode conversions
2474 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2475 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2476 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2481 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2483 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2484 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2485 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2486 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2487 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2489 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2490 ===========================
2495 Fix error handling in python bindings
2497 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2498 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2499 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2500 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2502 Quote MML tags in replies
2504 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2505 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2506 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2507 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2508 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2509 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2510 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2511 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2513 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2514 =========================
2516 Command-Line Interface
2517 ----------------------
2521 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2522 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2523 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2524 importing new messages into the database.
2526 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2528 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2529 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2530 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2535 Automatic tag query optimization
2537 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2538 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2539 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2541 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2543 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2544 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2545 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2550 Reduction of memory leaks
2552 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2553 and fixed in this release.
2560 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2561 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2562 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2565 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2567 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2568 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2569 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2572 Improvements in saved search management
2574 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2575 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2576 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2578 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2580 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2581 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2582 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2584 New face for crypto parts headers
2586 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2587 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2588 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2591 Use space as default thousands separator
2593 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2594 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2595 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2597 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2598 buttonized id: links
2600 New function notmuch-show-advance
2602 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2603 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2604 be bound to SPC with:
2606 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2608 Various performance improvements
2613 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2614 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2617 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2618 ===========================
2623 Fix crash in python bindings
2625 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2626 for some, but not all users.
2628 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2629 ===========================
2634 Fix `--help` argument
2636 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2637 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2638 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2640 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2641 =========================
2643 New build and testing features
2644 ------------------------------
2646 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2647 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2648 prerequisites is improved.
2650 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2652 New command-line features
2653 -------------------------
2655 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2657 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2658 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2661 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2663 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2664 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2665 favour of using stdout.
2667 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2669 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2670 limit the number of results shown.
2672 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2674 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2675 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2678 New emacs UI features
2679 ---------------------
2681 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2683 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2684 starting with "tag:".
2686 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2688 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2689 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2691 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2693 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2695 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2697 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2698 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2703 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2705 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2707 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2708 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2709 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2710 requires a database rebuild:
2712 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2713 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2715 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2717 New collection of add-on tools
2718 ------------------------------
2720 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2721 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2722 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2725 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2727 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2728 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2729 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2731 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2732 ========================
2734 New, general features
2735 ---------------------
2737 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2739 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2740 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2741 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2742 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2743 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2750 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2751 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2753 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2757 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2758 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2759 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2762 Python bindings changes
2763 -----------------------
2765 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2767 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2768 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2769 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2770 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2771 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2772 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2774 Ruby bindings changes
2775 ---------------------
2777 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2778 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2779 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2780 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2785 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2787 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2788 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2790 Reply formatting cleanup
2791 ------------------------
2793 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2794 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2796 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2797 ========================
2799 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2801 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2802 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2803 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2804 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2807 Improved Build system portability
2809 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2810 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2811 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2813 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2815 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2817 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2819 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2820 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2821 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2823 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2824 ========================
2826 Vim interface improvements
2827 --------------------------
2829 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2831 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2832 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2833 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2834 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2835 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2837 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2839 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2840 * fix compose temp file name
2842 Python Bindings changes
2843 -----------------------
2845 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2847 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2848 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2850 Build-System improvements
2851 -------------------------
2853 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2855 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2858 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2859 ==========================
2864 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2866 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2867 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2869 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2870 =======================
2872 New, general features
2873 ---------------------
2875 Folder-based searching
2877 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2878 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2879 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2883 For example, one might use things such as:
2889 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2890 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2892 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2893 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2894 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2895 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2897 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2898 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2899 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2902 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2903 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2905 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2907 Support for PGP/MIME
2909 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2910 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2911 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2913 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2915 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2916 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2918 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2919 notmuch will receive these tags.
2921 New command-line features
2922 -------------------------
2924 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2926 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2927 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2929 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2931 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2932 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2933 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2935 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2937 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2938 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2939 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2940 which parts a signature part applies).
2942 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2944 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2945 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2946 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2947 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2948 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2951 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2953 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2954 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2955 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2956 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2957 by translating it internally to the new call.
2959 Performance improvements
2960 ------------------------
2962 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2964 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2965 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2966 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2968 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2969 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2971 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2973 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2974 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2975 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2977 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2978 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2979 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2980 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2982 Faster initial indexing
2984 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2985 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2986 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2988 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2990 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2991 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2992 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2993 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2995 New emacs-interface features
2996 ----------------------------
2998 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3000 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3001 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3002 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3003 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3004 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3005 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3007 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3009 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3010 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3011 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3012 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3014 User-selectable From address
3016 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3017 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3018 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3019 will prompt for the from address to use.
3021 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3022 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3023 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3025 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3026 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3027 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3030 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3032 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3033 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3035 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3037 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3039 ----- Original Message -----
3041 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3042 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3043 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3044 citations work much like conventional citations.
3046 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3048 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3049 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3050 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3051 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3052 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3054 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3055 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3057 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3059 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3060 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3061 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3063 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3065 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3066 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3067 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3068 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3069 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3071 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3073 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3076 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3078 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3080 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3082 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3085 Vim interface improvements
3086 --------------------------
3088 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3090 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3091 * Implementing archive in show view
3092 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3093 * Add delete commands
3096 Bindings improvements
3097 ---------------------
3099 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3101 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3102 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3104 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3106 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3110 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3111 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3112 `list(Messages)` works now
3113 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3115 These allow, for example:
3117 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3119 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3121 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3127 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3129 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3132 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3134 New build-system features
3135 -------------------------
3137 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3139 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3140 the configure script from some other directory:
3147 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3149 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3150 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3151 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3152 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3153 manual invocation of configure.
3155 New test-suite feature
3156 ----------------------
3158 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3160 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3161 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3162 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3163 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3164 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3167 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3169 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3170 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3171 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3172 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3173 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3174 are updated to take advantage of this.
3176 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3178 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3179 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3180 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3181 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3187 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3189 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3190 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3191 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3193 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3195 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3197 to:user@elsewhere.com
3199 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3201 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3203 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3205 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3206 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3207 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3210 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3211 from the Received headers in some cases
3213 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3214 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3216 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3218 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3220 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3222 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3223 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3224 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3226 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3227 -------------------------
3229 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3231 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3232 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3233 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3235 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3237 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3238 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3239 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3242 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3244 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3245 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3246 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3247 fixed to avoid this bug.
3249 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3251 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3252 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3254 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3255 ========================
3257 New, general features
3258 ---------------------
3260 Maildir-flag synchronization
3262 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3263 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3272 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3274 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3275 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3276 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3277 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3279 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3280 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3281 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3282 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3285 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3287 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3288 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3289 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3291 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3292 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3294 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3295 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3297 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3298 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3299 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3301 New library features
3302 --------------------
3304 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3306 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3307 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3308 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3309 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3311 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3312 message with the new function:
3314 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3316 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3317 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3318 over all available filenames for a given message.
3320 New command-line features
3321 -------------------------
3323 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3325 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3326 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3327 access to the mail store itself.
3329 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3330 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3331 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3332 name of a script containing:
3334 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3336 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3337 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3343 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3345 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3347 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3349 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3350 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3351 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3352 now produces nothing).
3354 Emacs interface improvements
3355 ----------------------------
3357 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3359 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3361 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3363 Display current thread subject in a header line
3365 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3367 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3369 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3370 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3371 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3372 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3373 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3374 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3375 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3377 Vim interface improvements
3378 --------------------------
3380 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3382 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3383 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3389 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3391 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3392 ========================
3394 New command-line features
3395 -------------------------
3397 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3399 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3400 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3401 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3403 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3404 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3405 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3406 scripts. For example:
3408 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3409 <operations-on> "$file"
3412 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3414 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3415 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3416 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3417 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3418 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3419 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3421 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3423 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3424 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3425 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3426 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3428 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3430 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3431 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3432 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3433 default rather than Bcc.
3435 New library features
3436 --------------------
3438 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3440 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3441 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3446 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3448 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3449 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3450 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3451 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3452 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3453 notmuch customize interface.
3455 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3457 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3458 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3459 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3460 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3462 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3464 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3465 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3466 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3467 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3469 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3471 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3472 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3473 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3474 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3475 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3476 notmuch customize interface.
3478 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3480 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3481 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3482 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3483 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3484 notmuch customize interface.
3486 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3488 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3489 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3490 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3491 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3494 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3496 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3497 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3498 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3501 New build-system features
3502 -------------------------
3504 Various portability fixes have been applied
3506 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3507 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3508 more portable than ever before.
3510 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3512 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3513 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3514 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3516 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3517 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3518 automatically run ldconfig.
3520 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3521 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3522 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3524 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3525 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3526 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3527 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3529 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3531 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3532 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3533 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3534 used in the resulting Makefile.
3536 New test-suite features
3537 -----------------------
3539 New modularization of test suite
3541 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3542 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3543 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3544 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3545 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3546 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3547 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3548 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3550 New testing of emacs interface
3552 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3553 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3554 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3555 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3556 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3557 database via the FCC setting.
3562 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3564 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3565 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3566 persistent error of the form:
3568 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3570 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3571 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3573 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3575 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3576 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3577 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3579 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3581 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3582 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3583 parsing the notmuch results).
3585 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3587 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3590 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3591 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3592 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3597 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3599 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3600 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3601 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3602 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3603 the emacs interface.
3605 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3607 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3608 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3609 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3611 Python-binding fixes
3612 --------------------
3614 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3616 Debian-specific fixes
3617 ---------------------
3619 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3621 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3622 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3623 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3626 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3627 ==========================
3632 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3634 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3635 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3636 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3637 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3639 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3641 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3642 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3643 want notmuch to crash.
3648 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3650 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3651 directory does not exist
3656 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3658 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3659 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3661 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3662 ========================
3664 New command-line features
3665 -------------------------
3667 User-configurable tags for new messages
3669 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3670 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3671 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3672 to specify this value.
3674 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3676 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3677 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3678 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3680 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3682 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3683 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3685 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3687 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3688 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3689 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3690 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3691 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3694 Indication of author names that match a search
3696 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3697 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3698 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3699 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3700 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3701 messages in the thread are listed first.
3703 New: Python bindings
3704 --------------------
3706 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3707 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3708 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3709 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3711 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3712 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3713 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3716 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3717 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3718 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3720 Emacs interface improvements
3721 ----------------------------
3723 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3725 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3726 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3727 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3728 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3729 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3730 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3731 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3732 but without any of the disadvantages).
3734 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3735 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3736 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3739 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3740 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3741 instead running something like:
3743 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3745 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3746 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3747 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3750 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3752 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3753 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3754 tweaked by the user.
3756 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3757 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3758 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3761 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3762 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3763 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3766 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3768 This support currently relies on an external program,
3769 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3770 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3771 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3772 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3773 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3776 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3777 notmuch) is available via:
3779 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3781 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3782 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3783 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3785 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3787 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3788 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3789 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3790 making this automatic in a future release.
3792 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3794 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3795 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3796 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3797 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3798 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3799 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3802 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3804 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3805 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3806 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3808 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3810 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3811 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3812 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3814 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3815 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3816 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3817 other representation.
3819 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3820 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3823 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3825 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3826 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3827 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3829 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3830 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3831 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3833 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3835 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3836 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3837 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3838 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3839 to display the search result.
3841 More flexible handling of header visibility
3843 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3844 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3845 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3846 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3847 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3848 with the 'h' keybinding.
3850 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3851 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3852 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3854 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3856 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3858 Customizable formatting of search results
3860 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3861 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3862 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3864 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3866 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3868 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3873 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3875 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3876 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3877 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3878 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3884 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3886 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3887 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3889 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3891 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3892 accept are now all accepted.
3897 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3899 Better display of output from failed tests
3901 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3902 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3904 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3905 ========================
3907 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3908 detailed release notes this time!
3910 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3911 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3913 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3914 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3915 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3916 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3923 Better guessing of From: header
3925 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3926 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3927 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3928 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3929 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3932 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3934 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3935 guaranteed to match all messages.
3937 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3939 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3940 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3941 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3942 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3943 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3946 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3949 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3950 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3951 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3952 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3957 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3959 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3960 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3961 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3962 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3964 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3966 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3968 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3969 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3970 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3972 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3974 Previously, the user might see:
3976 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3980 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3982 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3983 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3984 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3985 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3987 Emacs client features
3988 ---------------------
3990 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3992 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3993 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3994 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3995 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3996 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3998 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4001 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4002 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4003 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4004 search with the '*' binding.
4006 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4008 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4009 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4012 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4014 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4015 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4016 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4018 Build-system features
4019 ---------------------
4021 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4023 Add support to configure for many standard options
4025 We include actual support for:
4027 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4029 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4031 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4032 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4034 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4035 separate "make install-emacs"
4037 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4039 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4040 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4041 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4043 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4046 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4047 ========================
4049 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4051 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4052 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4054 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4055 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4056 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4057 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4058 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4059 tags from messages in a thread.
4066 indent-tabs-mode: nil