1 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
2 =========================
7 Correct documentation about transactions.
9 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
10 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
12 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
17 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
23 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
24 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
25 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
27 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
29 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
31 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
33 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
35 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
37 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
40 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
45 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
46 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
47 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
48 split, following an old library API change.
53 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
58 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
60 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
62 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
63 ===========================
68 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
71 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
74 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
75 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
80 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
82 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
83 ===========================
88 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
94 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
99 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
104 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
109 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
110 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
112 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
113 ===========================
118 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
119 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
120 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
122 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
123 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
124 database in a pre-new hook.
126 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
127 default worked only in "notmuch config".
132 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
133 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
135 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
136 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
137 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
139 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
140 =========================
145 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
146 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
147 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
148 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
149 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
150 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
151 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
152 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
153 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
154 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
155 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
160 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
161 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
163 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
164 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
165 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
166 - `notmuch_config_get`
168 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
169 now exposed (and generalized).
171 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
172 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
173 session has been fixed.
175 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
176 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
181 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
182 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
184 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
185 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
190 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
191 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
192 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
193 when prompting for senders.
195 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
196 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
199 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
201 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
203 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
204 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
205 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
206 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
207 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
208 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
209 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
211 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
212 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
214 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
215 you should change it to:
216 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
218 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
219 ===========================
224 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
229 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
231 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
232 ===========================
237 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
242 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
247 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
249 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
250 ===========================
255 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
256 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
258 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
259 ===========================
264 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
269 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
270 with a C++ header for some compilers.
272 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
274 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
275 =========================
280 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
281 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
282 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
284 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
286 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
288 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
290 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
293 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
295 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
296 search, show and tree mode)
298 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
301 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
304 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
305 always be newest first.
310 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
311 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
312 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
318 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
319 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
320 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
321 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
323 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
324 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
325 non-status providing versions.
327 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
328 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
330 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
331 promised in the documentation.
336 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
337 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
338 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
343 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
344 development version).
349 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
354 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
356 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
357 =========================
362 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
363 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
364 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
367 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
373 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
374 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
375 notmuch-properties(7)).
380 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
381 has protected headers (see
382 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
383 notmuch-properties(7)).
388 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
390 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
391 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
397 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
400 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
401 ===========================
406 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
408 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
413 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
415 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
416 ===========================
421 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
422 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
424 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
425 ===========================
430 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
432 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
433 =========================
438 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
439 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
442 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
443 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
444 the set of headers to be indexed.
446 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
449 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
450 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
451 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
454 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
455 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
456 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
458 Command Line Interface
459 ----------------------
461 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
464 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
466 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
467 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
468 more details about what is included there. This status includes
469 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
474 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
475 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
477 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
479 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
481 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
483 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
485 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
488 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
490 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
491 and may be removed in a future release.
493 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
499 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
501 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
502 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
507 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
508 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
509 cryptography support.
514 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
515 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
516 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
518 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
519 ===========================
521 Command line interface
522 ----------------------
524 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
525 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
527 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
528 ===========================
533 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
534 by message properties.
539 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
541 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
542 ===========================
547 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
552 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
553 now needed to build this documentation.
555 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
556 ===========================
561 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
562 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
564 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
565 =========================
572 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
573 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
574 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
575 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
576 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
579 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
581 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
582 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
583 correct encoding for such messages.
585 Command Line Interface
586 ----------------------
588 Support relative database paths
590 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
591 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
592 to $HOME of the invoking user.
597 Improve stderr handling
599 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
600 needed on e.g. macOS.
602 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
604 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
609 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
610 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
616 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
617 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
623 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
624 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
627 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
628 =========================
633 Add support for thread:{} queries
635 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
636 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
637 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
639 Command Line Interface
640 ----------------------
642 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
644 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
646 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
648 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
649 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
650 does not have to be available during message receipt.
655 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
661 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
662 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
664 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
665 ===========================
670 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
672 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
673 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
674 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
676 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
678 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
679 related abort in `notmuch show`.
681 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
682 ===========================
687 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
688 better late than never.
691 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
692 =========================
694 Command Line Interface
695 ----------------------
697 Support for re-indexing existing messages
699 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
700 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
701 change the way specific messages are indexed.
703 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
704 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
705 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
707 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
709 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
711 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
713 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
714 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
715 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
716 the setting of `new.tags`.
718 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
720 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
722 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
724 This inserts into the top level folder.
726 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
728 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
730 New option --output=address for notmuch address
732 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
734 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
736 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
737 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
738 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
740 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
745 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
747 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
748 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
749 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
750 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
751 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
752 config set index.decrypt true".
754 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
755 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
756 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
757 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
758 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
759 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
760 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
761 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
763 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
764 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
765 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
766 this feature without considering the security of your index.
771 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
773 Use make-process when available
775 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
776 notmuch command without using temporary files.
781 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
783 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
784 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
785 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
786 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
788 New functions to count files
790 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
791 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
793 New function to remove properties
795 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
796 drop all properties with a common pattern:
797 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
799 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
801 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
802 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
803 possibility of NULL was not documented.
805 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
807 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
808 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
809 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
810 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
811 operator may decide to change from message to message.
818 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
819 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
820 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
826 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
828 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
829 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
831 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
833 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
835 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
837 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
842 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
843 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
845 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
846 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
847 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
848 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
849 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
850 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
855 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
857 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
858 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
859 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
860 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
862 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
863 ===========================
868 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
869 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
872 Command Line Interface
873 ----------------------
875 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
876 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
879 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
880 ===========================
882 Command Line Interface
883 ----------------------
885 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
886 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
891 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
894 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
895 ===========================
900 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
903 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
904 =========================
909 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
911 Skip HTML tags when indexing
913 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
915 Command Line Interface
916 ----------------------
918 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
920 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
925 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
927 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
928 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
931 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
936 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
938 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
939 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
941 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
943 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
944 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
947 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
949 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
951 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
953 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
954 ===========================
956 Command Line Interface
957 ----------------------
959 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
964 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
966 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
967 ===========================
972 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
974 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
975 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
978 Command Line Interface
979 ----------------------
981 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
983 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
985 Fix bug in dump header
987 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
988 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
989 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
994 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
996 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
997 =========================
1002 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1004 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1007 Command Line Interface
1008 ----------------------
1010 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1012 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1013 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1014 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1016 New default output format to 3
1018 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1019 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1020 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1021 default format changes.
1026 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1028 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1029 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1030 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1031 or tree view to resume.
1033 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1034 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1035 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1038 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1039 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1043 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1044 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1045 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1046 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1047 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1051 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1052 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1053 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1054 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1055 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1056 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1060 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1061 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1063 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1065 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1066 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1067 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1068 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1069 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1070 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1071 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1072 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1075 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1077 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1078 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1079 only tagged the current thread.)
1081 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1083 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1084 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1085 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1087 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1089 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1090 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1091 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1092 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1093 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1094 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1095 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1097 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1099 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1100 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1101 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1106 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1108 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1111 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1113 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1116 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1117 ===========================
1122 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1124 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1125 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1126 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1129 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1130 ===========================
1132 Command Line Interface
1133 ----------------------
1135 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1140 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1142 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1143 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1144 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1146 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1147 ===========================
1152 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1153 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1155 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1156 ===========================
1158 Command Line Interface
1159 ----------------------
1161 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1163 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1164 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1165 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1170 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1172 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1173 ===========================
1175 Command Line Interface
1176 ----------------------
1178 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1183 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1185 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1186 ===========================
1191 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1193 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1194 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1195 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1197 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1199 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1201 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1202 ===========================
1207 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1209 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1214 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1216 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1217 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1218 the original colours.
1220 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1221 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1223 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1225 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1226 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1227 bug, and hence the test.
1229 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1230 =========================
1232 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1233 ---------------------
1235 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1237 Support for single argument date: queries
1239 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1241 Support for blocking opens
1243 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1244 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1246 Support for named queries
1248 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1249 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1250 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1255 Message property API
1257 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1258 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1259 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1260 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1262 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1264 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1269 Support for compile time options
1271 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1272 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1275 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1277 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1278 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1279 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1280 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1281 scripts to ignore it.
1286 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1288 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1289 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1290 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1292 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1293 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1294 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1295 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1296 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1297 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1298 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1300 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1301 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1304 Make internal address completion customizable
1306 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1307 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1308 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1309 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1312 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1314 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1315 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1316 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1317 completion for the current buffer.
1319 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1320 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1321 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1325 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1326 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1327 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1328 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1329 will be added instead.
1331 Face customization is easier
1333 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1334 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1335 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1336 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1338 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1343 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1348 Go bindings moved to contrib
1350 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1352 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1354 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1355 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1357 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1359 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1360 ===========================
1367 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1368 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1370 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1372 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1374 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1375 ===========================
1380 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1382 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1387 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1392 Use `env` to locate perl.
1397 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1399 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1401 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1403 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1405 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1406 =========================
1413 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1414 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1416 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1418 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1419 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1420 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1425 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1426 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1427 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1429 Command Line Interface
1430 ----------------------
1432 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1434 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1439 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1444 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1446 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1447 parts are now included in replies.
1449 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1450 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1451 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1452 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1454 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1456 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1458 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1460 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1461 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1462 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1463 forwards only the current message.
1465 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1467 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1468 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1469 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1470 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1471 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1472 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1473 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1474 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1477 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1478 longer generate empty buffers
1480 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1481 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1482 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1483 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1484 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1486 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1488 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1491 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1493 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1496 Address completion improvements
1498 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1499 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1500 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1501 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1502 interactive address completion.
1504 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1506 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1507 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1508 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1513 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1514 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1515 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1521 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1522 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1523 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1524 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1525 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1526 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1528 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1529 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1530 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1531 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1532 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1533 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1535 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1536 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1538 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1539 =========================
1544 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1547 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1549 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1550 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1551 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1553 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1554 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1556 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1557 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1558 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1560 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1562 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1563 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1564 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1565 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1566 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1567 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1572 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1573 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1576 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1577 option to configure.
1579 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1581 Command Line Interface
1582 ----------------------
1584 Database revision tracking
1586 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1587 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1588 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1589 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1591 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1593 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1594 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1595 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1596 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1597 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1598 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1599 manual page for further information.
1604 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1606 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1607 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1609 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1611 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1612 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1613 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1615 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1617 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1619 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1620 customization as well.
1622 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1624 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1626 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1628 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1630 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1631 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1632 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1633 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1635 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1637 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1638 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1639 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1640 this variable to 10000.
1645 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1646 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1648 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1650 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1651 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1652 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1653 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1654 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1655 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1656 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1657 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1658 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1661 Database revision tracking
1663 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1664 query parser and the new function
1665 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1667 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1669 Deprecated functions
1671 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1672 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1673 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1674 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1679 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1681 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1682 ===========================
1687 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1689 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1690 ===========================
1695 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1697 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1698 =========================
1700 Command-Line Interface
1701 ----------------------
1703 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1705 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1706 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1707 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1709 Path to gpg is now configurable
1711 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1712 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1717 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1719 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1724 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1729 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1734 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1736 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1737 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1739 New error logging facility
1741 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1742 output formerly printed to stderr.
1744 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1746 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1748 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1750 Fix for rounding of seconds
1755 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1757 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1758 documentation has been removed.
1760 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1762 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1763 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1768 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1769 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1770 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1775 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1776 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1777 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1778 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1779 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1780 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1783 git checkout config origin/config
1785 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1787 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1788 =========================
1793 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1794 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1795 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1796 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1797 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1798 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1799 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1801 Command-Line Interface
1802 ----------------------
1804 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1806 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1807 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1808 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1809 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1810 script callers should still check the return value.
1812 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1814 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1815 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1816 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1817 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1818 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1819 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1820 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1822 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1824 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1825 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1826 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1828 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1830 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1831 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1832 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1833 currently unmaintained.
1835 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1837 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1838 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1839 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1840 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1842 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1844 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1845 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1846 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1847 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1848 count of duplicate addresses.
1853 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1855 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1856 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1857 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1860 Improved handling of the unread tag
1862 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1863 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1864 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1865 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1866 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1867 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1868 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1870 Expanded default saved search settings
1872 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1873 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1875 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1877 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1878 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1879 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1881 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1883 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1884 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1885 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1886 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1887 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1888 the variable for details.
1893 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1895 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1896 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1897 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1898 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1900 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1902 Previously, library users were required to call
1903 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1904 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1905 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1906 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1907 too out of date for that API.
1909 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1911 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1912 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1913 atomic section will be aborted.
1915 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1916 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1918 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1920 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1921 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1922 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1923 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1924 messages into the same thread.
1929 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1930 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1931 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1932 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1933 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1934 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1939 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1940 from the config file. Use something like:
1944 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1945 "footer": "</body></html>",
1954 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1959 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1960 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1961 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1963 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1964 ===========================
1969 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1971 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1973 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1975 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1976 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1978 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1980 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1983 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1984 ===========================
1986 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1991 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1993 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1995 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1997 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1999 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2005 Use --quick when starting emacs
2007 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2009 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2011 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2013 Command-Line Interface
2014 ----------------------
2016 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2017 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2022 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2024 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2025 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2027 Fix for phrase indexing
2029 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2030 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2031 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2036 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2038 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2039 unintentionally removed.
2041 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2042 =========================
2047 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2048 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2049 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2050 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2051 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2052 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2053 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2054 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2055 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2061 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2063 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2064 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2065 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2066 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2067 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2068 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2069 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2070 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2072 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2074 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2075 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2076 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2077 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2080 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2082 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2083 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2084 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2085 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2086 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2087 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2088 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2093 Notmuch database upgrade
2095 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2096 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2097 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2098 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2099 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2100 released version of Notmuch before now.
2102 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2104 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2105 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2106 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2107 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2109 Message header parsing changes
2111 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2112 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2113 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2114 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2115 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2116 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2118 Command-Line Interface
2119 ----------------------
2121 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2123 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2125 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2127 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2129 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2131 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2132 user does not want it.
2134 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2136 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2137 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2138 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2139 support formatted output.
2141 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2143 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2144 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2145 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2153 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2154 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2155 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2156 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2157 `~/.emacs` with these.
2159 Changed format for saved searches
2161 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2162 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2163 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2164 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2167 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2168 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2169 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2170 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2172 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2173 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2174 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2176 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2177 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2178 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2179 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2180 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2182 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2184 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2185 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2186 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2188 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2190 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2191 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2192 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2193 message had been unread).
2195 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2196 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2197 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2198 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2200 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2201 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2202 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2204 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2205 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2206 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2207 to tags already present.
2211 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2212 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2213 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2214 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2215 these differ from each other.
2216 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2218 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2220 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2221 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2222 for these Emacs versions.
2224 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2226 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2227 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2229 Bug fixes for sender identities
2231 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2232 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2233 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2235 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2237 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2238 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2239 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2240 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2242 Reply pushes mark before signature
2244 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2245 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2246 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2248 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2250 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2251 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2257 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2258 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2260 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2261 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2262 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2263 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2265 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2266 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2267 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2268 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2269 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2271 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2273 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2274 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2276 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2277 =========================
2279 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2280 ---------------------------------------
2282 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2283 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2284 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2285 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2286 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2287 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2288 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2292 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2293 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2295 Command-Line Interface
2296 ----------------------
2298 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2300 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2301 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2302 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2303 print for each message.
2305 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2306 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2307 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2308 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2310 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2312 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2313 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2314 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2316 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2318 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2319 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2320 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2321 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2323 `notmuch compact` command
2325 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2326 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2327 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2328 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2329 move the compacted database into place.
2334 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2336 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2337 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2338 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2339 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2340 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2341 and multiple threads.
2343 Using `notmuch-tree`
2345 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2347 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2348 search, show and tree mode itself)
2350 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2353 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2354 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2356 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2358 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2359 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2360 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2361 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2362 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2363 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2364 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2366 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2368 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2369 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2370 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2371 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2372 thread when the search was performed.
2374 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2376 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2377 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2378 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2380 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2382 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2383 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2386 Built-in help improvements
2388 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2389 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2390 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2392 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2394 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2395 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2396 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2398 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2400 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2401 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2403 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2405 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2406 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2407 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2408 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2410 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2412 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2413 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2414 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2415 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2417 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2419 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2420 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2421 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2423 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2425 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2426 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2427 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2429 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2431 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2432 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2433 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2434 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2435 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2437 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2439 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2440 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2441 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2442 the body part of the message.
2447 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2448 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2449 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2451 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2452 =========================
2454 Command-Line Interface
2455 ----------------------
2457 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2459 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2460 folder and notmuch index.
2462 `notmuch count --batch` option
2464 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2465 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2467 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2469 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2470 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2471 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2474 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2476 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2477 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2478 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2479 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2480 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2483 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2485 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2486 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2488 Top level option to specify configuration file
2490 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2491 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2493 Bash command-line completion
2495 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2496 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2497 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2498 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2499 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2500 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2501 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2502 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2503 bash-completion package.
2505 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2510 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2512 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2513 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2514 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2515 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2516 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2517 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2518 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2519 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2521 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2523 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2524 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2525 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2527 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2529 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2530 previous thread in the search results.
2532 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2534 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2535 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2537 Faster search and show
2539 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2540 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2541 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2542 threads should show faster.
2546 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2547 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2548 in question was now removed from this release.
2553 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2554 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2559 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2561 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2562 ===========================
2567 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2569 Internal test framework changes
2570 -------------------------------
2572 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2573 being unimplemented.
2575 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2576 ===========================
2578 Internal test framework changes
2579 -------------------------------
2581 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2582 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2584 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2585 =========================
2590 Date range search support
2592 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2593 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2594 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2595 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2596 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2599 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2601 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2602 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2603 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2604 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2605 but may be removed in a future release.
2607 Command-Line Interface
2608 ----------------------
2610 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2612 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2613 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2615 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2617 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2618 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2619 officially deprecated.
2621 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2623 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2624 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2625 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2627 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2629 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2630 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2633 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2634 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2635 dump/restore format.
2637 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2639 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2640 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2641 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2643 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2645 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2646 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2647 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2649 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2651 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2652 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2653 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2654 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2659 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2661 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2662 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2663 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2664 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2666 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2668 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2669 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2670 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2671 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2672 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2673 the behavior of this, see
2674 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2675 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2677 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2678 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2679 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2681 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2683 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2684 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2687 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2689 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2690 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2691 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2692 simply displayed in place of the message.
2694 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2696 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2697 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2699 Improved text/calendar content handling
2701 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2702 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2703 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2704 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2706 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2708 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2709 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2710 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2711 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2713 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2715 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2716 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2717 for HTML email containing images.
2719 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2721 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2723 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2725 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2728 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2730 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2731 the point where it was.
2733 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2735 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2736 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2737 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2738 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2739 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2741 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2743 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2744 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2745 thread instead of the message id.
2747 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2748 -----------------------------
2750 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2751 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2752 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2753 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2754 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2755 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2756 further details and installation.
2761 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2763 Internal test framework changes
2764 -------------------------------
2766 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2768 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2769 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2770 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2771 can result in buggy behavior.
2773 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2774 =========================
2779 Maildir tag synchronization
2781 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2782 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2783 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2784 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2785 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2786 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2789 Command-Line Interface
2790 ----------------------
2792 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2793 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2794 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2795 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2796 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2802 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2804 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2806 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2807 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2808 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2810 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2812 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2813 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2814 span multiple lines.
2816 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2818 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2819 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2820 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2821 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2822 inside the result or message.
2824 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2826 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2827 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2829 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2830 user-specified formatting
2832 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2833 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2834 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2835 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2836 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2838 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2839 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2841 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2842 ===========================
2847 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2848 compilation error for this contrib package.
2850 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2851 ===========================
2856 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2858 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2859 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2860 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2861 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2863 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2864 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2867 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2868 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2869 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2870 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2873 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2875 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2878 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2879 =========================
2881 Command-Line Interface
2882 ----------------------
2886 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2887 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2888 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2889 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2891 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2892 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2893 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2894 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2898 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2899 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2901 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2902 tag in your query, for example:
2904 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2906 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2907 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2909 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2910 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2912 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2914 Raw show format changes
2916 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2917 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2918 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2919 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2920 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2921 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2922 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2923 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2925 Listing configuration items
2927 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2933 Changes to tagging interface
2935 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2936 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2937 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2938 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2939 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2940 for more information.
2942 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2943 may need to update in custom configurations.
2945 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2947 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2948 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2949 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2950 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2953 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2954 -----------------------------
2956 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2957 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2958 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2959 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2960 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2961 contrib/ from now on.
2966 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2967 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2969 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2970 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2972 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2973 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2974 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2976 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2977 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2979 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2980 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2981 returning the new database object or directory object.
2988 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2989 compatible with go 1.
2991 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2992 =========================
2994 Command-Line Interface
2995 ----------------------
2999 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3000 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3001 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3002 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3004 Mail store folder/file ignore
3006 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3007 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3008 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3010 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3011 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3013 Unified help and manual pages
3015 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3016 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3019 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3021 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3022 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3030 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3031 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3032 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3033 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3035 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3037 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3038 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3040 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3043 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3044 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3045 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3047 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3049 should be changed to:
3051 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3053 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3055 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3056 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3058 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3060 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3061 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3062 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3063 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3064 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3065 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3069 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3070 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3071 of Mailing List Archives.
3073 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3075 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3076 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3079 Show view archiving key binding changes
3081 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3082 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3083 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3084 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3085 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3088 Support text/calendar MIME type
3090 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3093 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3095 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3096 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3097 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3098 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3100 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3102 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3103 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3104 messages blue by default in the search view.
3108 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3109 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3116 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3119 Python bindings changes
3120 -----------------------
3122 Python 3.2 compatibility
3124 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3126 Added missing unicode conversions
3128 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3129 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3130 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3135 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3137 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3138 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3139 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3140 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3141 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3143 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3144 ===========================
3149 Fix error handling in python bindings
3151 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3152 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3153 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3154 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3156 Quote MML tags in replies
3158 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3159 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3160 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3161 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3162 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3163 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3164 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3165 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3167 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3168 =========================
3170 Command-Line Interface
3171 ----------------------
3175 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3176 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3177 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3178 importing new messages into the database.
3180 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3182 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3183 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3184 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3189 Automatic tag query optimization
3191 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3192 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3193 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3195 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3197 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3198 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3199 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3204 Reduction of memory leaks
3206 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3207 and fixed in this release.
3214 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3215 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3216 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3219 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3221 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3222 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3223 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3226 Improvements in saved search management
3228 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3229 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3230 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3232 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3234 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3235 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3236 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3238 New face for crypto parts headers
3240 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3241 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3242 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3245 Use space as default thousands separator
3247 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3248 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3249 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3251 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3252 buttonized id: links
3254 New function notmuch-show-advance
3256 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3257 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3258 be bound to SPC with:
3260 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3262 Various performance improvements
3267 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3268 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3271 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3272 ===========================
3277 Fix crash in python bindings
3279 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3280 for some, but not all users.
3282 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3283 ===========================
3288 Fix `--help` argument
3290 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3291 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3292 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3294 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3295 =========================
3297 New build and testing features
3298 ------------------------------
3300 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3301 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3302 prerequisites is improved.
3304 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3306 New command-line features
3307 -------------------------
3309 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3311 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3312 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3315 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3317 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3318 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3319 favour of using stdout.
3321 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3323 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3324 limit the number of results shown.
3326 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3328 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3329 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3332 New emacs UI features
3333 ---------------------
3335 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3337 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3338 starting with "tag:".
3340 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3342 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3343 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3345 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3347 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3349 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3351 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3352 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3357 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3359 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3361 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3362 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3363 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3364 requires a database rebuild:
3366 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3367 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3369 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3371 New collection of add-on tools
3372 ------------------------------
3374 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3375 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3376 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3379 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3381 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3382 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3383 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3385 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3386 ========================
3388 New, general features
3389 ---------------------
3391 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3393 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3394 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3395 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3396 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3397 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3404 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3405 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3407 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3411 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3412 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3413 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3416 Python bindings changes
3417 -----------------------
3419 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3421 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3422 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3423 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3424 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3425 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3426 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3428 Ruby bindings changes
3429 ---------------------
3431 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3432 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3433 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3434 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3439 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3441 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3442 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3444 Reply formatting cleanup
3445 ------------------------
3447 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3448 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3450 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3451 ========================
3453 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3455 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3456 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3457 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3458 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3461 Improved Build system portability
3463 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3464 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3465 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3467 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3469 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3471 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3473 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3474 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3475 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3477 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3478 ========================
3480 Vim interface improvements
3481 --------------------------
3483 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3485 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3486 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3487 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3488 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3489 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3491 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3493 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3494 * fix compose temp file name
3496 Python Bindings changes
3497 -----------------------
3499 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3501 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3502 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3504 Build-System improvements
3505 -------------------------
3507 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3509 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3512 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3513 ==========================
3518 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3520 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3521 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3523 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3524 =======================
3526 New, general features
3527 ---------------------
3529 Folder-based searching
3531 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3532 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3533 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3537 For example, one might use things such as:
3543 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3544 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3546 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3547 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3548 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3549 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3551 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3552 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3553 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3556 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3557 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3559 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3561 Support for PGP/MIME
3563 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3564 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3565 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3567 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3569 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3570 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3572 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3573 notmuch will receive these tags.
3575 New command-line features
3576 -------------------------
3578 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3580 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3581 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3583 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3585 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3586 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3587 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3589 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3591 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3592 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3593 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3594 which parts a signature part applies).
3596 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3598 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3599 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3600 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3601 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3602 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3605 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3607 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3608 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3609 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3610 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3611 by translating it internally to the new call.
3613 Performance improvements
3614 ------------------------
3616 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3618 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3619 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3620 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3622 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3623 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3625 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3627 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3628 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3629 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3631 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3632 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3633 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3634 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3636 Faster initial indexing
3638 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3639 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3640 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3642 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3644 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3645 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3646 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3647 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3649 New emacs-interface features
3650 ----------------------------
3652 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3654 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3655 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3656 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3657 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3658 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3659 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3661 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3663 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3664 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3665 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3666 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3668 User-selectable From address
3670 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3671 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3672 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3673 will prompt for the from address to use.
3675 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3676 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3677 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3679 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3680 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3681 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3684 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3686 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3687 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3689 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3691 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3693 ----- Original Message -----
3695 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3696 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3697 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3698 citations work much like conventional citations.
3700 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3702 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3703 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3704 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3705 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3706 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3708 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3709 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3711 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3713 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3714 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3715 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3717 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3719 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3720 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3721 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3722 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3723 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3725 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3727 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3730 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3732 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3734 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3736 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3739 Vim interface improvements
3740 --------------------------
3742 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3744 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3745 * Implementing archive in show view
3746 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3747 * Add delete commands
3750 Bindings improvements
3751 ---------------------
3753 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3755 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3756 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3758 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3760 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3764 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3765 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3766 `list(Messages)` works now
3767 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3769 These allow, for example:
3771 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3773 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3775 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3781 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3783 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3786 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3788 New build-system features
3789 -------------------------
3791 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3793 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3794 the configure script from some other directory:
3801 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3803 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3804 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3805 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3806 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3807 manual invocation of configure.
3809 New test-suite feature
3810 ----------------------
3812 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3814 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3815 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3816 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3817 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3818 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3821 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3823 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3824 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3825 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3826 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3827 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3828 are updated to take advantage of this.
3830 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3832 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3833 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3834 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3835 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3841 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3843 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3844 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3845 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3847 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3849 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3851 to:user@elsewhere.com
3853 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3855 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3857 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3859 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3860 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3861 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3864 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3865 from the Received headers in some cases
3867 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3868 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3870 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3872 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3874 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3876 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3877 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3878 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3880 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3881 -------------------------
3883 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3885 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3886 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3887 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3889 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3891 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3892 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3893 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3896 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3898 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3899 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3900 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3901 fixed to avoid this bug.
3903 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3905 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3906 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3908 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3909 ========================
3911 New, general features
3912 ---------------------
3914 Maildir-flag synchronization
3916 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3917 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3926 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3928 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3929 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3930 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3931 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3933 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3934 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3935 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3936 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3939 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3941 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3942 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3943 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3945 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3946 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3948 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3949 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3951 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3952 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3953 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3955 New library features
3956 --------------------
3958 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3960 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3961 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3962 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3963 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3965 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3966 message with the new function:
3968 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3970 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3971 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3972 over all available filenames for a given message.
3974 New command-line features
3975 -------------------------
3977 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3979 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3980 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3981 access to the mail store itself.
3983 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3984 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3985 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3986 name of a script containing:
3988 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3990 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3991 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3997 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3999 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4001 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4003 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4004 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4005 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4006 now produces nothing).
4008 Emacs interface improvements
4009 ----------------------------
4011 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4013 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4015 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4017 Display current thread subject in a header line
4019 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4021 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4023 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4024 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4025 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4026 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4027 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4028 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4029 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4031 Vim interface improvements
4032 --------------------------
4034 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4036 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4037 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4043 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4045 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4046 ========================
4048 New command-line features
4049 -------------------------
4051 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4053 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4054 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4055 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4057 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4058 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4059 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4060 scripts. For example:
4062 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4063 <operations-on> "$file"
4066 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4068 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4069 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4070 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4071 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4072 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4073 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4075 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4077 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4078 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4079 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4080 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4082 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4084 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4085 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4086 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4087 default rather than Bcc.
4089 New library features
4090 --------------------
4092 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4094 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4095 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4100 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4102 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4103 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4104 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4105 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4106 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4107 notmuch customize interface.
4109 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4111 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4112 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4113 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4114 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4116 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4118 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4119 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4120 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4121 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4123 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4125 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4126 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4127 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4128 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4129 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4130 notmuch customize interface.
4132 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4134 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4135 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4136 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4137 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4138 notmuch customize interface.
4140 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4142 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4143 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4144 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4145 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4148 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4150 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4151 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4152 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4155 New build-system features
4156 -------------------------
4158 Various portability fixes have been applied
4160 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4161 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4162 more portable than ever before.
4164 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4166 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4167 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4168 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4170 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4171 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4172 automatically run ldconfig.
4174 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4175 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4176 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4178 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4179 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4180 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4181 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4183 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4185 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4186 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4187 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4188 used in the resulting Makefile.
4190 New test-suite features
4191 -----------------------
4193 New modularization of test suite
4195 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4196 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4197 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4198 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4199 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4200 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4201 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4202 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4204 New testing of emacs interface
4206 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4207 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4208 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4209 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4210 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4211 database via the FCC setting.
4216 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4218 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4219 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4220 persistent error of the form:
4222 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4224 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4225 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4227 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4229 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4230 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4231 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4233 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4235 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4236 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4237 parsing the notmuch results).
4239 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4241 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4244 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4245 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4246 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4251 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4253 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4254 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4255 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4256 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4257 the emacs interface.
4259 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4261 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4262 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4263 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4265 Python-binding fixes
4266 --------------------
4268 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4270 Debian-specific fixes
4271 ---------------------
4273 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4275 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4276 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4277 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4280 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4281 ==========================
4286 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4288 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4289 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4290 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4291 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4293 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4295 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4296 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4297 want notmuch to crash.
4302 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4304 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4305 directory does not exist
4310 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4312 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4313 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4315 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4316 ========================
4318 New command-line features
4319 -------------------------
4321 User-configurable tags for new messages
4323 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4324 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4325 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4326 to specify this value.
4328 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4330 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4331 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4332 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4334 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4336 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4337 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4339 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4341 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4342 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4343 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4344 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4345 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4348 Indication of author names that match a search
4350 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4351 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4352 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4353 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4354 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4355 messages in the thread are listed first.
4357 New: Python bindings
4358 --------------------
4360 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4361 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4362 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4363 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4365 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4366 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4367 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4370 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4371 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4372 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4374 Emacs interface improvements
4375 ----------------------------
4377 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4379 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4380 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4381 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4382 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4383 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4384 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4385 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4386 but without any of the disadvantages).
4388 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4389 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4390 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4393 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4394 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4395 instead running something like:
4397 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4399 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4400 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4401 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4404 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4406 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4407 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4408 tweaked by the user.
4410 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4411 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4412 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4415 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4416 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4417 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4420 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4422 This support currently relies on an external program,
4423 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4424 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4425 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4426 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4427 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4430 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4431 notmuch) is available via:
4433 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4435 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4436 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4437 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4439 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4441 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4442 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4443 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4444 making this automatic in a future release.
4446 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4448 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4449 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4450 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4451 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4452 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4453 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4456 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4458 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4459 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4460 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4462 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4464 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4465 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4466 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4468 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4469 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4470 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4471 other representation.
4473 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4474 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4477 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4479 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4480 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4481 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4483 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4484 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4485 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4487 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4489 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4490 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4491 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4492 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4493 to display the search result.
4495 More flexible handling of header visibility
4497 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4498 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4499 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4500 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4501 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4502 with the 'h' keybinding.
4504 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4505 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4506 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4508 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4510 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4512 Customizable formatting of search results
4514 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4515 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4516 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4518 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4520 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4522 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4527 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4529 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4530 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4531 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4532 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4538 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4540 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4541 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4543 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4545 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4546 accept are now all accepted.
4551 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4553 Better display of output from failed tests
4555 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4556 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4558 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4559 ========================
4561 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4562 detailed release notes this time!
4564 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4565 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4567 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4568 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4569 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4570 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4577 Better guessing of From: header
4579 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4580 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4581 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4582 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4583 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4586 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4588 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4589 guaranteed to match all messages.
4591 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4593 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4594 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4595 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4596 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4597 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4600 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4603 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4604 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4605 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4606 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4611 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4613 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4614 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4615 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4616 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4618 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4620 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4622 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4623 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4624 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4626 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4628 Previously, the user might see:
4630 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4634 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4636 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4637 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4638 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4639 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4641 Emacs client features
4642 ---------------------
4644 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4646 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4647 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4648 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4649 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4650 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4652 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4655 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4656 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4657 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4658 search with the '*' binding.
4660 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4662 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4663 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4666 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4668 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4669 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4670 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4672 Build-system features
4673 ---------------------
4675 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4677 Add support to configure for many standard options
4679 We include actual support for:
4681 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4683 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4685 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4686 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4688 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4689 separate "make install-emacs"
4691 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4693 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4694 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4695 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4697 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4700 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4701 ========================
4703 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4705 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4706 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4708 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4709 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4710 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4711 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4712 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4713 tags from messages in a thread.
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