1 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
2 ===========================
7 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
8 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
10 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
11 ===========================
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
18 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
19 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
20 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
25 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
27 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
28 ===========================
30 Command Line Interface
31 ----------------------
33 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
38 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
40 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
41 ===========================
46 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
48 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
49 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
50 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
52 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
54 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
56 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
57 ===========================
62 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
64 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
69 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
71 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
72 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
75 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
76 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
78 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
80 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
81 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
82 bug, and hence the test.
84 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
85 =========================
90 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
92 Support for single argument date: queries
94 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
96 Support for blocking opens
98 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
99 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
101 Support for named queries
103 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
104 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
105 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
112 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
113 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
114 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
115 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
117 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
119 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
124 Support for compile time options
126 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
127 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
130 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
132 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
133 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
134 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
135 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
136 scripts to ignore it.
141 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
143 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
144 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
145 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
147 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
148 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
149 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
150 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
151 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
152 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
153 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
155 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
156 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
159 Make internal address completion customizable
161 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
162 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
163 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
164 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
167 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
169 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
170 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
171 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
172 completion for the current buffer.
174 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
175 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
176 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
180 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
181 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
182 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
183 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
184 will be added instead.
186 Face customization is easier
188 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
189 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
190 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
191 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
193 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
198 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
203 Go bindings moved to contrib
205 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
207 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
209 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
210 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
212 The same issue occured with sort modes.
214 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
215 ===========================
222 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
223 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
225 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
227 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
229 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
230 ===========================
235 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
237 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
242 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
247 Use `env` to locate perl.
252 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
254 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
256 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
258 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
260 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
261 =========================
268 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
269 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
271 Limited support for S/MIME messages
273 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
274 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
275 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
280 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
281 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
282 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
284 Command Line Interface
285 ----------------------
287 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
289 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
294 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
299 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
301 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
302 parts are now included in replies.
304 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
305 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
306 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
307 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
309 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
311 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
313 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
315 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
316 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
317 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
318 forwards only the current message.
320 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
322 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
323 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
324 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
325 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
326 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
327 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
328 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
329 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
332 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
333 longer generate empty buffers
335 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
336 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
337 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
338 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
339 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
341 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
343 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
346 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
348 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
351 Address completion improvements
353 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
354 you previously configured one, customize the variable
355 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
356 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
357 interactive address completion.
359 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
361 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
362 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
363 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
368 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
369 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
370 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
376 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
377 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
378 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
379 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
380 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
381 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
383 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
384 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
385 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
386 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
387 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
388 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
390 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
391 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
393 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
394 =========================
399 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
402 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
404 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
405 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
406 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
408 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
409 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
411 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
412 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
413 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
415 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
417 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
418 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
419 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
420 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
421 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
422 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
427 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
428 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
431 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
434 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
436 Command Line Interface
437 ----------------------
439 Database revision tracking
441 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
442 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
443 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
444 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
446 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
448 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
449 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
450 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
451 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
452 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
453 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
454 manual page for further information.
459 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
461 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
462 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
464 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
466 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
467 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
468 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
470 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
472 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
474 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
475 customization as well.
477 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
479 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
481 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
483 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
485 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
486 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
487 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
488 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
490 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
492 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
493 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
494 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
495 this variable to 10000.
500 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
501 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
503 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
505 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
506 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
507 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
508 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
509 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
510 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
511 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
512 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
513 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
516 Database revision tracking
518 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
519 query parser and the new function
520 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
522 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
526 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
527 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
528 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
529 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
534 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
536 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
537 ===========================
542 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
544 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
545 ===========================
550 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
552 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
553 =========================
555 Command-Line Interface
556 ----------------------
558 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
560 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
561 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
562 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
564 Path to gpg is now configurable
566 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
567 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
572 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
574 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
579 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
584 Support messages without Message-IDs.
589 Undeprecate single message mboxes
591 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
592 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
594 New error logging facility
596 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
597 output formerly printed to stderr.
599 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
601 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
603 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
605 Fix for rounding of seconds
610 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
612 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
613 docmumentation has been removed.
615 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
617 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
618 some material from the relicensed wiki.
623 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
624 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
625 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
630 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
631 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
632 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
633 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
634 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
635 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
638 git checkout config origin/config
640 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
642 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
643 =========================
648 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
649 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
650 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
651 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
652 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
653 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
654 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
656 Command-Line Interface
657 ----------------------
659 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
661 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
662 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
663 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
664 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
665 script callers should still check the return value.
667 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
669 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
670 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
671 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
672 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
673 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
674 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
675 and returning success even if indexing fails).
677 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
679 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
680 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
681 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
683 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
685 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
686 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
687 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
688 currently unmaintained.
690 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
692 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
693 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
694 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
695 have at least `N` files associated with them.
697 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
699 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
700 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
701 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
702 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
703 count of duplicate addresses.
708 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
710 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
711 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
712 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
715 Improved handling of the unread tag
717 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
718 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
719 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
720 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
721 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
722 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
723 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
725 Expanded default saved search settings
727 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
728 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
730 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
732 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
733 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
734 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
736 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
738 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
739 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
740 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
741 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
742 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
743 the variable for details.
748 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
750 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
751 Representing these independently of the database version number will
752 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
753 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
755 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
757 Previously, library users were required to call
758 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
759 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
760 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
761 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
762 too out of date for that API.
764 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
766 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
767 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
768 atomic section will be aborted.
770 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
771 `notmuch_database_destroy`
773 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
775 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
776 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
777 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
778 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
779 messages into the same thread.
784 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
785 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
786 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
787 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
788 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
789 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
794 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
795 from the config file. Use something like:
799 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
800 "footer": "</body></html>",
809 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
814 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
815 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
816 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
818 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
819 ===========================
824 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
826 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
828 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
830 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
831 structure for signatures changed slightly.
833 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
835 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
838 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
839 ===========================
841 This is a bug fix and portability release.
846 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
848 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
850 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
852 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
854 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
860 Use --quick when starting emacs
862 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
864 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
866 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
868 Command-Line Interface
869 ----------------------
871 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
872 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
877 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
879 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
880 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
882 Fix for phrase indexing
884 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
885 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
886 will affect only newly indexed messages.
891 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
893 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
894 unintentionally removed.
896 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
897 =========================
902 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
903 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
904 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
905 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
906 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
907 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
908 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
909 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
910 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
916 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
918 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
919 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
920 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
921 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
922 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
923 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
924 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
925 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
927 There is a new `path:` search prefix
929 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
930 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
931 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
932 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
935 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
937 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
938 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
939 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
940 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
941 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
942 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
943 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
948 Notmuch database upgrade
950 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
951 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
952 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
953 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
954 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
955 released version of Notmuch before now.
957 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
959 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
960 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
961 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
962 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
964 Message header parsing changes
966 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
967 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
968 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
969 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
970 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
971 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
973 Command-Line Interface
974 ----------------------
976 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
978 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
980 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
982 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
984 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
986 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
987 user does not want it.
989 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
991 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
992 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
993 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
994 support formatted output.
996 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
998 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
999 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1000 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1008 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1009 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1010 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1011 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1012 `~/.emacs` with these.
1014 Changed format for saved searches
1016 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1017 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1018 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1019 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1022 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1023 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1024 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1025 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1027 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1028 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1029 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1031 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1032 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1033 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1034 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1035 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1037 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1039 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1040 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1041 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1043 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1045 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1046 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1047 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1048 message had been unread).
1050 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1051 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1052 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1053 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1055 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1056 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1057 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1059 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1060 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1061 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1062 to tags already present.
1066 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1067 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1068 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1069 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1070 these differ from each other.
1071 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1073 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1075 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1076 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1077 for these Emacs versions.
1079 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1081 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1082 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1084 Bug fixes for sender identities
1086 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1087 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1088 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1090 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1092 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1093 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1094 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1095 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1097 Reply pushes mark before signature
1099 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1100 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1101 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1103 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1105 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1106 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1112 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1113 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1115 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1116 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1117 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1118 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1120 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1121 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1122 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1123 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1124 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1126 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1128 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1129 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1131 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1132 =========================
1134 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1135 ---------------------------------------
1137 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1138 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1139 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1140 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1141 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1142 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1143 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1147 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1148 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1150 Command-Line Interface
1151 ----------------------
1153 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1155 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1156 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1157 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1158 print for each message.
1160 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1161 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1162 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1163 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1165 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1167 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1168 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1169 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1171 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1173 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1174 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1175 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1176 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1178 `notmuch compact` command
1180 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1181 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1182 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1183 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1184 move the compacted database into place.
1189 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1191 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1192 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1193 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1194 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1195 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1196 and multiple threads.
1198 Using `notmuch-tree`
1200 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1202 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1203 search, show and tree mode itself)
1205 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1208 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1209 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1211 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1213 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1214 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1215 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1216 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1217 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1218 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1219 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1221 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1223 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1224 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1225 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1226 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1227 thread when the search was performed.
1229 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1231 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1232 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1233 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1235 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1237 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1238 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1241 Built-in help improvements
1243 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1244 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1245 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1247 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1249 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1250 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1251 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1253 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1255 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1256 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1258 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1260 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1261 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1262 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1263 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1265 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1267 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1268 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1269 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1270 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1272 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1274 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1275 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1276 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1278 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1280 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1281 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1282 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1284 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1286 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1287 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1288 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1289 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1290 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1292 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1294 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1295 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1296 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1297 the body part of the message.
1302 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1303 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1304 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1306 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1307 =========================
1309 Command-Line Interface
1310 ----------------------
1312 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1314 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1315 folder and notmuch index.
1317 `notmuch count --batch` option
1319 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1320 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1322 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1324 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1325 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1326 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1329 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1331 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1332 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1333 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1334 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1335 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1338 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1340 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1341 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1343 Top level option to specify configuration file
1345 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1346 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1348 Bash command-line completion
1350 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1351 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1352 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1353 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1354 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1355 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1356 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1357 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1358 bash-completion package.
1360 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1365 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1367 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1368 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1369 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1370 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1371 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1372 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1373 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1374 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1376 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1378 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1379 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1380 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1382 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1384 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1385 previous thread in the search results.
1387 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1389 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1390 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1392 Faster search and show
1394 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1395 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1396 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1397 threads should show faster.
1401 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1402 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1403 in question was now removed from this release.
1408 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1409 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1414 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1416 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1417 ===========================
1422 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1424 Internal test framework changes
1425 -------------------------------
1427 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1428 being unimplemented.
1430 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1431 ===========================
1433 Internal test framework changes
1434 -------------------------------
1436 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1437 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1439 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1440 =========================
1445 Date range search support
1447 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1448 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1449 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1450 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1451 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1454 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1456 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1457 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1458 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1459 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1460 but may be removed in a future release.
1462 Command-Line Interface
1463 ----------------------
1465 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1467 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1468 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1470 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1472 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1473 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1474 officially deprecated.
1476 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1478 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1479 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1480 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1482 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1484 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1485 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1488 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1489 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1490 dump/restore format.
1492 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1494 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1495 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1496 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1498 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1500 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1501 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1502 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1504 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1506 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1507 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1508 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1509 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1514 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1516 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1517 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1518 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1519 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1521 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1523 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1524 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1525 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1526 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1527 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1528 the behavior of this, see
1529 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1530 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1532 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1533 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1534 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1536 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1538 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1539 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1542 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1544 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1545 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1546 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1547 simply displayed in place of the message.
1549 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1551 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1552 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1554 Improved text/calendar content handling
1556 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1557 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1558 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1559 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1561 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1563 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1564 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1565 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1566 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1568 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1570 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1571 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1572 for HTML email containing images.
1574 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1576 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1578 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1580 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1583 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1585 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1586 the point where it was.
1588 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1590 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1591 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1592 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1593 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1594 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1596 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1598 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1599 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1600 thread instead of the message id.
1602 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1603 -----------------------------
1605 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1606 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1607 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1608 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1609 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1610 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1611 further details and installation.
1616 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1618 Internal test framework changes
1619 -------------------------------
1621 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1623 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1624 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1625 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1626 can result in buggy behavior.
1628 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1629 =========================
1634 Maildir tag synchronization
1636 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1637 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1638 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1639 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1640 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1641 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1644 Command-Line Interface
1645 ----------------------
1647 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1648 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1649 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1650 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1651 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1657 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1659 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1661 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1662 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1663 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1665 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1667 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1668 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1669 span multiple lines.
1671 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1673 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1674 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1675 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1676 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1677 inside the result or message.
1679 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1681 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1682 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1684 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1685 user-specified formatting
1687 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1688 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1689 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1690 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1691 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1693 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1694 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1696 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1697 ===========================
1702 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1703 compilation error for this contrib package.
1705 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1706 ===========================
1711 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1713 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1714 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1715 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1716 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1718 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1719 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1722 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1723 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1724 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1725 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1728 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1730 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1733 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1734 =========================
1736 Command-Line Interface
1737 ----------------------
1741 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1742 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1743 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1744 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1746 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1747 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1748 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1749 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1753 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1754 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1756 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1757 tag in your query, for example:
1759 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1761 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1762 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1764 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1765 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1767 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1769 Raw show format changes
1771 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1772 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1773 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1774 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1775 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1776 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1777 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1778 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1780 Listing configuration items
1782 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1788 Changes to tagging interface
1790 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1791 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1792 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1793 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1794 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1795 for more information.
1797 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1798 may need to update in custom configurations.
1800 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1802 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1803 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1804 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1805 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1808 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1809 -----------------------------
1811 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1812 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1813 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1814 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1815 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1816 contrib/ from now on.
1821 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1822 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1824 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1825 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1827 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1828 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1829 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1831 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1832 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1834 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1835 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1836 returning the new database object or directory object.
1843 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1844 compatible with go 1.
1846 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1847 =========================
1849 Command-Line Interface
1850 ----------------------
1854 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1855 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1856 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1857 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1859 Mail store folder/file ignore
1861 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1862 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1863 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1865 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1866 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1868 Unified help and manual pages
1870 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1871 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1874 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1876 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1877 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1885 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1886 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1887 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1888 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1890 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1892 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1893 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1895 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1898 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1899 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1900 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1902 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1904 should be changed to:
1906 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1908 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1910 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1911 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1913 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1915 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1916 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1917 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1918 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1919 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1920 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1924 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1925 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1926 of Mailing List Archives.
1928 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1930 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1931 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1934 Show view archiving key binding changes
1936 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1937 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1938 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1939 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1940 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1943 Support text/calendar MIME type
1945 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1948 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1950 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1951 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1952 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1953 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1955 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1957 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1958 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1959 messages blue by default in the search view.
1963 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1964 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1971 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1974 Python bindings changes
1975 -----------------------
1977 Python 3.2 compatibility
1979 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1981 Added missing unicode conversions
1983 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1984 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1985 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1990 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1992 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1993 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1994 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1995 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1996 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1998 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1999 ===========================
2004 Fix error handling in python bindings
2006 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2007 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2008 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2009 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2011 Quote MML tags in replies
2013 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2014 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2015 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2016 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2017 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2018 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2019 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2020 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2022 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2023 =========================
2025 Command-Line Interface
2026 ----------------------
2030 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2031 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2032 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2033 importing new messages into the database.
2035 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2037 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2038 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2039 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2044 Automatic tag query optimization
2046 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2047 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2048 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2050 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2052 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2053 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2054 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2059 Reduction of memory leaks
2061 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2062 and fixed in this release.
2069 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2070 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2071 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2074 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2076 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2077 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2078 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2081 Improvements in saved search management
2083 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2084 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2085 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2087 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2089 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2090 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2091 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2093 New face for crypto parts headers
2095 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2096 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2097 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2100 Use space as default thousands separator
2102 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2103 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2104 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2106 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2107 buttonized id: links
2109 New function notmuch-show-advance
2111 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2112 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2113 be bound to SPC with:
2115 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2117 Various performance improvements
2122 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2123 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2126 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2127 ===========================
2132 Fix crash in python bindings
2134 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2135 for some, but not all users.
2137 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2138 ===========================
2143 Fix `--help` argument
2145 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2146 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2147 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2149 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2150 =========================
2152 New build and testing features
2153 ------------------------------
2155 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2156 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2157 prerequisites is improved.
2159 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2161 New command-line features
2162 -------------------------
2164 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2166 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2167 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2170 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2172 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2173 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2174 favour of using stdout.
2176 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2178 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2179 limit the number of results shown.
2181 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2183 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2184 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2187 New emacs UI features
2188 ---------------------
2190 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2192 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2193 starting with "tag:".
2195 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2197 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2198 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2200 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2202 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2204 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2206 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2207 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2212 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2214 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2216 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2217 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2218 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2219 requires a database rebuild:
2221 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2222 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2224 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2226 New collection of add-on tools
2227 ------------------------------
2229 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2230 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2231 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2234 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2236 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2237 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2238 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2240 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2241 ========================
2243 New, general features
2244 ---------------------
2246 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2248 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2249 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2250 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2251 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2252 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2259 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2260 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2262 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2266 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2267 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2268 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2271 Python bindings changes
2272 -----------------------
2274 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2276 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2277 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2278 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2279 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2280 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2281 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2283 Ruby bindings changes
2284 ---------------------
2286 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2287 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2288 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2289 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2294 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2296 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2297 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2299 Reply formatting cleanup
2300 ------------------------
2302 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2303 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2305 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2306 ========================
2308 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2310 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2311 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2312 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2313 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2316 Improved Build system portability
2318 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2319 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2320 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2322 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2324 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2326 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2328 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2329 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2330 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2332 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2333 ========================
2335 Vim interface improvements
2336 --------------------------
2338 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2340 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2341 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2342 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2343 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2344 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2346 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2348 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2349 * fix compose temp file name
2351 Python Bindings changes
2352 -----------------------
2354 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2356 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2357 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2359 Build-System improvements
2360 -------------------------
2362 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2364 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2367 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2368 ==========================
2373 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2375 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2376 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2378 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2379 =======================
2381 New, general features
2382 ---------------------
2384 Folder-based searching
2386 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2387 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2388 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2392 For example, one might use things such as:
2398 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2399 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2401 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2402 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2403 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2404 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2406 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2407 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2408 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2411 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2412 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2414 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2416 Support for PGP/MIME
2418 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2419 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2420 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2422 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2424 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2425 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2427 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2428 notmuch will receive these tags.
2430 New command-line features
2431 -------------------------
2433 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2435 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2436 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2438 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2440 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2441 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2442 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2444 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2446 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2447 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2448 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2449 which parts a signature part applies).
2451 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2453 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2454 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2455 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2456 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2457 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2460 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2462 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2463 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2464 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2465 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2466 by translating it internally to the new call.
2468 Performance improvements
2469 ------------------------
2471 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2473 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2474 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2475 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2477 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2478 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2480 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2482 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2483 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2484 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2486 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2487 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2488 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2489 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2491 Faster initial indexing
2493 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2494 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2495 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2497 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2499 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2500 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2501 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2502 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2504 New emacs-interface features
2505 ----------------------------
2507 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2509 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2510 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2511 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2512 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2513 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2514 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2516 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2518 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2519 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2520 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2521 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2523 User-selectable From address
2525 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2526 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2527 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2528 will prompt for the from address to use.
2530 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2531 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2532 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2534 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2535 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2536 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2539 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2541 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2542 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2544 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2546 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2548 ----- Original Message -----
2550 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2551 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2552 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2553 citations work much like conventional citations.
2555 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2557 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2558 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2559 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2560 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2561 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2563 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2564 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2566 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2568 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2569 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2570 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2572 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2574 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2575 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2576 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2577 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2578 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2580 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2582 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2585 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2587 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2589 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2591 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2594 Vim interface improvements
2595 --------------------------
2597 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2599 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2600 * Implementing archive in show view
2601 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2602 * Add delete commands
2605 Bindings improvements
2606 ---------------------
2608 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2610 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2611 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2613 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2615 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2619 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2620 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2621 `list(Messages)` works now
2622 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2624 These allow, for example:
2626 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2628 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2630 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2636 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2638 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2641 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2643 New build-system features
2644 -------------------------
2646 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2648 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2649 the configure script from some other directory:
2656 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2658 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2659 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2660 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2661 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2662 manual invocation of configure.
2664 New test-suite feature
2665 ----------------------
2667 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2669 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2670 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2671 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2672 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2673 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2676 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2678 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2679 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2680 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2681 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2682 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2683 are updated to take advantage of this.
2685 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2687 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2688 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2689 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2690 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2696 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2698 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2699 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2700 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2702 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2704 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2706 to:user@elsewhere.com
2708 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2710 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2712 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2714 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2715 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2716 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2719 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2720 from the Received headers in some cases
2722 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2723 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2725 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2727 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2729 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2731 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2732 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2733 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2735 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2736 -------------------------
2738 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2740 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2741 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2742 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2744 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2746 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2747 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2748 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2751 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2753 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2754 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2755 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2756 fixed to avoid this bug.
2758 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2760 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2761 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2763 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2764 ========================
2766 New, general features
2767 ---------------------
2769 Maildir-flag synchronization
2771 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2772 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2781 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2783 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2784 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2785 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2786 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2788 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2789 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2790 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2791 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2794 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2796 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2797 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2798 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2800 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2801 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2803 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2804 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2806 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2807 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2808 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2810 New library features
2811 --------------------
2813 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2815 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2816 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2817 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2818 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2820 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2821 message with the new function:
2823 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2825 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2826 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2827 over all available filenames for a given message.
2829 New command-line features
2830 -------------------------
2832 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2834 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2835 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2836 access to the mail store itself.
2838 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2839 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2840 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2841 name of a script containing:
2843 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2845 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2846 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2852 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2854 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2856 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2858 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2859 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2860 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2861 now produces nothing).
2863 Emacs interface improvements
2864 ----------------------------
2866 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2868 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2870 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2872 Display current thread subject in a header line
2874 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2876 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2878 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2879 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2880 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2881 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2882 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2883 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2884 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2886 Vim interface improvements
2887 --------------------------
2889 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2891 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2892 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2898 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2900 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2901 ========================
2903 New command-line features
2904 -------------------------
2906 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2908 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2909 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2910 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2912 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2913 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2914 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2915 scripts. For example:
2917 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2918 <operations-on> "$file"
2921 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2923 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2924 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2925 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2926 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2927 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2928 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2930 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2932 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2933 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2934 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2935 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2937 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2939 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2940 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2941 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2942 default rather than Bcc.
2944 New library features
2945 --------------------
2947 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2949 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2950 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2955 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2957 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2958 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2959 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2960 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2961 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2962 notmuch customize interface.
2964 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2966 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2967 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2968 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2969 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2971 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2973 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2974 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2975 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2976 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2978 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2980 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2981 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2982 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2983 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2984 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2985 notmuch customize interface.
2987 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2989 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2990 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2991 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2992 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2993 notmuch customize interface.
2995 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2997 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2998 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2999 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3000 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3003 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3005 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3006 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3007 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3010 New build-system features
3011 -------------------------
3013 Various portability fixes have been applied
3015 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3016 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3017 more portable than ever before.
3019 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3021 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3022 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3023 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3025 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3026 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3027 automatically run ldconfig.
3029 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3030 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3031 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3033 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3034 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3035 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3036 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3038 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3040 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3041 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3042 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3043 used in the resulting Makefile.
3045 New test-suite features
3046 -----------------------
3048 New modularization of test suite
3050 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3051 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3052 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3053 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3054 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3055 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3056 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3057 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3059 New testing of emacs interface
3061 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3062 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3063 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3064 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3065 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3066 database via the FCC setting.
3071 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3073 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3074 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3075 persistent error of the form:
3077 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3079 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3080 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3082 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3084 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3085 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3086 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3088 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3090 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3091 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3092 parsing the notmuch results).
3094 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3096 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3099 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3100 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3101 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3106 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3108 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3109 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3110 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3111 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3112 the emacs interface.
3114 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3116 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3117 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3118 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3120 Python-binding fixes
3121 --------------------
3123 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3125 Debian-specific fixes
3126 ---------------------
3128 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3130 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3131 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3132 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3135 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3136 ==========================
3141 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3143 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3144 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3145 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3146 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3148 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3150 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3151 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3152 want notmuch to crash.
3157 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3159 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3160 directory does not exist
3165 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3167 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3168 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3170 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3171 ========================
3173 New command-line features
3174 -------------------------
3176 User-configurable tags for new messages
3178 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3179 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3180 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3181 to specify this value.
3183 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3185 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3186 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3187 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3189 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3191 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3192 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3194 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3196 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3197 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3198 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3199 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3200 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3203 Indication of author names that match a search
3205 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3206 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3207 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3208 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3209 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3210 messages in the thread are listed first.
3212 New: Python bindings
3213 --------------------
3215 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3216 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3217 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3218 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3220 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3221 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3222 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3225 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3226 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3227 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3229 Emacs interface improvements
3230 ----------------------------
3232 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3234 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3235 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3236 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3237 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3238 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3239 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3240 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3241 but without any of the disadvantages).
3243 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3244 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3245 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3248 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3249 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3250 instead running something like:
3252 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3254 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3255 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3256 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3259 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3261 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3262 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3263 tweaked by the user.
3265 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3266 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3267 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3270 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3271 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3272 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3275 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3277 This support currently relies on an external program,
3278 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3279 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3280 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3281 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3282 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3285 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3286 notmuch) is available via:
3288 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3290 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3291 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3292 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3294 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3296 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3297 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3298 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3299 making this automatic in a future release.
3301 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3303 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3304 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3305 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3306 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3307 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3308 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3311 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3313 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3314 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3315 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3317 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3319 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3320 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3321 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3323 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3324 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3325 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3326 other representation.
3328 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3329 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3332 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3334 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3335 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3336 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3338 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3339 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3340 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3342 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3344 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3345 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3346 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3347 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3348 to display the search result.
3350 More flexible handling of header visibility
3352 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3353 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3354 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3355 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3356 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3357 with the 'h' keybinding.
3359 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3360 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3361 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3363 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3365 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3367 Customizable formatting of search results
3369 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3370 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3371 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3373 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3375 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3377 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3382 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3384 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3385 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3386 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3387 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3393 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3395 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3396 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3398 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3400 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3401 accept are now all accepted.
3406 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3408 Better display of output from failed tests
3410 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3411 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3413 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3414 ========================
3416 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3417 detailed release notes this time!
3419 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3420 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3422 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3423 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3424 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3425 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3432 Better guessing of From: header
3434 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3435 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3436 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3437 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3438 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3441 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3443 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3444 guaranteed to match all messages.
3446 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3448 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3449 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3450 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3451 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3452 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3455 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3458 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3459 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3460 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3461 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3466 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3468 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3469 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3470 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3471 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3473 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3475 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3477 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3478 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3479 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3481 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3483 Previously, the user might see:
3485 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3489 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3491 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3492 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3493 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3494 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3496 Emacs client features
3497 ---------------------
3499 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3501 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3502 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3503 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3504 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3505 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3507 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3510 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3511 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3512 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3513 search with the '*' binding.
3515 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3517 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3518 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3521 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3523 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3524 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3525 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3527 Build-system features
3528 ---------------------
3530 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3532 Add support to configure for many standard options
3534 We include actual support for:
3536 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3538 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3540 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3541 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3543 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3544 separate "make install-emacs"
3546 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3548 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3549 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3550 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3552 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3555 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3556 ========================
3558 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3560 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3561 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3563 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3564 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3565 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3566 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3567 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3568 tags from messages in a thread.
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