1 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
2 =========================
7 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
9 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
11 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
12 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
14 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
16 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
21 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
24 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
26 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
27 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
32 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
34 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
37 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
38 third party completion frameworks.
40 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
42 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
44 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
45 signed and/or encrypted messages.
47 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
50 Make header line in show buffers optional.
52 Add customizable names for search buffers.
57 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
59 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
60 installed version of notmuch.
62 Ignore more configure options.
67 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
70 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
75 Add `matched` property to message objects.
77 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
78 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
84 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
86 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
87 ===========================
92 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
95 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
96 --------------------------
98 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
99 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
101 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
102 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
104 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
107 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
108 ===========================
113 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
114 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
115 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
117 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
118 --------------------------
120 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
121 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
123 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
124 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
125 and database location options as the library does.
127 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
129 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
130 ===========================
135 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
136 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
137 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
138 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
139 status returns for the same 3 functions.
141 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
142 =========================
147 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
148 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
149 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
150 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
151 s-expression query support.
156 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
161 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
163 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
165 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
167 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
169 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
170 ===========================
175 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
177 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
178 ===========================
183 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
184 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
187 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
188 =========================
193 Correct documentation about transactions.
195 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
196 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
198 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
203 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
209 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
210 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
211 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
213 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
215 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
217 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
219 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
221 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
223 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
226 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
231 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
232 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
233 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
234 split, following an old library API change.
239 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
244 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
246 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
248 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
249 ===========================
254 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
257 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
260 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
261 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
266 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
268 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
269 ===========================
274 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
280 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
285 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
290 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
295 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
296 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
298 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
299 ===========================
304 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
305 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
306 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
308 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
309 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
310 database in a pre-new hook.
312 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
313 default worked only in "notmuch config".
318 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
319 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
321 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
322 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
323 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
325 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
326 =========================
331 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
332 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
333 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
334 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
335 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
336 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
337 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
338 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
339 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
340 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
341 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
346 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
347 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
349 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
350 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
351 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
352 - `notmuch_config_get`
354 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
355 now exposed (and generalized).
357 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
358 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
359 session has been fixed.
361 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
362 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
367 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
368 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
370 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
371 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
376 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
377 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
378 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
379 when prompting for senders.
381 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
382 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
385 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
387 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
389 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
390 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
391 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
392 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
393 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
394 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
395 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
397 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
398 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
400 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
401 you should change it to:
402 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
404 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
405 ===========================
410 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
415 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
417 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
418 ===========================
423 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
428 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
433 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
435 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
436 ===========================
441 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
442 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
444 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
445 ===========================
450 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
455 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
456 with a C++ header for some compilers.
458 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
460 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
461 =========================
466 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
467 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
468 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
470 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
472 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
474 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
476 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
479 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
481 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
482 search, show and tree mode)
484 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
487 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
490 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
491 always be newest first.
496 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
497 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
498 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
504 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
505 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
506 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
507 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
509 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
510 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
511 non-status providing versions.
513 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
514 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
516 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
517 promised in the documentation.
522 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
523 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
524 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
529 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
530 development version).
535 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
540 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
542 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
543 =========================
548 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
549 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
550 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
553 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
559 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
560 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
561 notmuch-properties(7)).
566 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
567 has protected headers (see
568 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
569 notmuch-properties(7)).
574 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
576 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
577 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
583 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
586 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
587 ===========================
592 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
594 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
599 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
601 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
602 ===========================
607 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
608 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
610 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
611 ===========================
616 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
618 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
619 =========================
624 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
625 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
628 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
629 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
630 the set of headers to be indexed.
632 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
635 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
636 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
637 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
640 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
641 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
642 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
644 Command Line Interface
645 ----------------------
647 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
650 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
652 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
653 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
654 more details about what is included there. This status includes
655 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
660 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
661 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
663 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
665 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
667 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
669 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
671 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
674 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
676 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
677 and may be removed in a future release.
679 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
685 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
687 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
688 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
693 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
694 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
695 cryptography support.
700 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
701 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
702 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
704 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
705 ===========================
707 Command line interface
708 ----------------------
710 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
711 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
713 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
714 ===========================
719 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
720 by message properties.
725 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
727 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
728 ===========================
733 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
738 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
739 now needed to build this documentation.
741 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
742 ===========================
747 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
748 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
750 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
751 =========================
758 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
759 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
760 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
761 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
762 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
765 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
767 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
768 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
769 correct encoding for such messages.
771 Command Line Interface
772 ----------------------
774 Support relative database paths
776 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
777 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
778 to $HOME of the invoking user.
783 Improve stderr handling
785 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
786 needed on e.g. macOS.
788 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
790 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
795 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
796 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
802 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
803 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
809 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
810 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
813 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
814 =========================
819 Add support for thread:{} queries
821 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
822 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
823 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
825 Command Line Interface
826 ----------------------
828 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
830 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
832 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
834 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
835 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
836 does not have to be available during message receipt.
841 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
847 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
848 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
850 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
851 ===========================
856 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
858 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
859 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
860 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
862 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
864 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
865 related abort in `notmuch show`.
867 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
868 ===========================
873 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
874 better late than never.
877 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
878 =========================
880 Command Line Interface
881 ----------------------
883 Support for re-indexing existing messages
885 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
886 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
887 change the way specific messages are indexed.
889 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
890 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
891 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
893 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
895 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
897 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
899 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
900 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
901 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
902 the setting of `new.tags`.
904 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
906 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
908 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
910 This inserts into the top level folder.
912 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
914 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
916 New option --output=address for notmuch address
918 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
920 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
922 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
923 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
924 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
926 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
931 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
933 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
934 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
935 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
936 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
937 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
938 config set index.decrypt true".
940 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
941 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
942 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
943 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
944 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
945 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
946 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
947 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
949 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
950 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
951 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
952 this feature without considering the security of your index.
957 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
959 Use make-process when available
961 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
962 notmuch command without using temporary files.
967 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
969 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
970 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
971 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
972 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
974 New functions to count files
976 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
977 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
979 New function to remove properties
981 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
982 drop all properties with a common pattern:
983 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
985 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
987 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
988 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
989 possibility of NULL was not documented.
991 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
993 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
994 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
995 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
996 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
997 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1004 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1005 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1006 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1012 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1014 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1015 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1017 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1019 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1021 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1023 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1028 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1029 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1031 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1032 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1033 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1034 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1035 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1036 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1041 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1043 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1044 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1045 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1046 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1048 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1049 ===========================
1054 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1055 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1058 Command Line Interface
1059 ----------------------
1061 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1062 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1065 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1066 ===========================
1068 Command Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1071 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1072 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1077 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1080 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1081 ===========================
1086 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1089 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1090 =========================
1095 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1097 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1099 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1101 Command Line Interface
1102 ----------------------
1104 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1106 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1111 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1113 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1114 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1117 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1122 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1124 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1125 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1127 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1129 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1130 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1133 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1135 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1137 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1139 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1140 ===========================
1142 Command Line Interface
1143 ----------------------
1145 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1150 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1152 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1153 ===========================
1158 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1160 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1161 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1164 Command Line Interface
1165 ----------------------
1167 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1169 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1171 Fix bug in dump header
1173 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1174 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1175 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1180 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1182 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1183 =========================
1188 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1190 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1193 Command Line Interface
1194 ----------------------
1196 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1198 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1199 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1200 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1202 New default output format to 3
1204 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1205 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1206 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1207 default format changes.
1212 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1214 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1215 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1216 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1217 or tree view to resume.
1219 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1220 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1221 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1224 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1225 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1229 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1230 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1231 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1232 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1233 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1237 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1238 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1239 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1240 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1241 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1242 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1246 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1247 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1249 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1251 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1252 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1253 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1254 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1255 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1256 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1257 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1258 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1261 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1263 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1264 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1265 only tagged the current thread.)
1267 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1269 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1270 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1271 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1273 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1275 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1276 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1277 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1278 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1279 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1280 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1281 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1283 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1285 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1286 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1287 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1292 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1294 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1297 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1299 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1302 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1303 ===========================
1308 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1310 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1311 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1312 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1315 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1316 ===========================
1318 Command Line Interface
1319 ----------------------
1321 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1326 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1328 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1329 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1330 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1332 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1333 ===========================
1338 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1339 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1341 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1342 ===========================
1344 Command Line Interface
1345 ----------------------
1347 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1349 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1350 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1351 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1356 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1358 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1359 ===========================
1361 Command Line Interface
1362 ----------------------
1364 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1369 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1371 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1372 ===========================
1377 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1379 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1380 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1381 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1383 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1385 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1387 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1388 ===========================
1393 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1395 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1400 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1402 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1403 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1404 the original colours.
1406 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1407 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1409 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1411 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1412 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1413 bug, and hence the test.
1415 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1416 =========================
1418 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1419 ---------------------
1421 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1423 Support for single argument date: queries
1425 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1427 Support for blocking opens
1429 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1430 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1432 Support for named queries
1434 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1435 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1436 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1441 Message property API
1443 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1444 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1445 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1446 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1448 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1450 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1455 Support for compile time options
1457 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1458 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1461 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1463 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1464 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1465 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1466 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1467 scripts to ignore it.
1472 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1474 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1475 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1476 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1478 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1479 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1480 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1481 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1482 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1483 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1484 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1486 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1487 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1490 Make internal address completion customizable
1492 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1493 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1494 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1495 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1498 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1500 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1501 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1502 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1503 completion for the current buffer.
1505 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1506 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1507 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1511 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1512 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1513 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1514 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1515 will be added instead.
1517 Face customization is easier
1519 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1520 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1521 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1522 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1524 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1529 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1534 Go bindings moved to contrib
1536 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1538 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1540 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1541 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1543 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1545 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1546 ===========================
1553 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1554 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1556 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1558 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1560 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1561 ===========================
1566 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1568 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1573 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1578 Use `env` to locate perl.
1583 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1585 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1587 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1589 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1591 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1592 =========================
1599 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1600 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1602 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1604 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1605 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1606 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1611 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1612 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1613 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1615 Command Line Interface
1616 ----------------------
1618 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1620 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1625 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1630 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1632 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1633 parts are now included in replies.
1635 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1636 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1637 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1638 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1640 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1642 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1644 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1646 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1647 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1648 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1649 forwards only the current message.
1651 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1653 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1654 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1655 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1656 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1657 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1658 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1659 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1660 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1663 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1664 longer generate empty buffers
1666 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1667 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1668 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1669 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1670 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1672 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1674 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1677 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1679 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1682 Address completion improvements
1684 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1685 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1686 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1687 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1688 interactive address completion.
1690 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1692 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1693 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1694 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1699 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1700 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1701 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1707 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1708 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1709 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1710 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1711 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1712 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1714 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1715 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1716 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1717 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1718 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1719 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1721 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1722 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1724 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1725 =========================
1730 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1733 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1735 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1736 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1737 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1739 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1740 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1742 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1743 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1744 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1746 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1748 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1749 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1750 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1751 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1752 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1753 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1758 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1759 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1762 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1763 option to configure.
1765 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1767 Command Line Interface
1768 ----------------------
1770 Database revision tracking
1772 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1773 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1774 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1775 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1777 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1779 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1780 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1781 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1782 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1783 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1784 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1785 manual page for further information.
1790 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1792 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1793 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1795 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1797 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1798 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1799 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1801 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1803 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1805 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1806 customization as well.
1808 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1810 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1812 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1814 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1816 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1817 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1818 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1819 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1821 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1823 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1824 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1825 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1826 this variable to 10000.
1831 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1832 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1834 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1836 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1837 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1838 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1839 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1840 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1841 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1842 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1843 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1844 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1847 Database revision tracking
1849 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1850 query parser and the new function
1851 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1853 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1855 Deprecated functions
1857 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1858 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1859 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1860 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1865 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1867 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1868 ===========================
1873 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1875 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1876 ===========================
1881 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1883 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1884 =========================
1886 Command-Line Interface
1887 ----------------------
1889 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1891 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1892 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1893 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1895 Path to gpg is now configurable
1897 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1898 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1903 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1905 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1910 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1915 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1920 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1922 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1923 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1925 New error logging facility
1927 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1928 output formerly printed to stderr.
1930 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1932 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1934 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1936 Fix for rounding of seconds
1941 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1943 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1944 documentation has been removed.
1946 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1948 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1949 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1954 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1955 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1956 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1961 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1962 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1963 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1964 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1965 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1966 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1969 git checkout config origin/config
1971 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1973 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1974 =========================
1979 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1980 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1981 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1982 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1983 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1984 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1985 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1987 Command-Line Interface
1988 ----------------------
1990 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1992 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1993 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1994 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1995 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1996 script callers should still check the return value.
1998 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2000 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2001 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2002 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2003 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2004 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2005 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2006 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2008 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2010 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2011 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2012 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2014 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2016 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2017 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2018 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2019 currently unmaintained.
2021 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2023 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2024 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2025 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2026 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2028 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2030 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2031 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2032 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2033 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2034 count of duplicate addresses.
2039 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2041 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2042 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2043 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2046 Improved handling of the unread tag
2048 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2049 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2050 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2051 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2052 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2053 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2054 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2056 Expanded default saved search settings
2058 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2059 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2061 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2063 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2064 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2065 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2067 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2069 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2070 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2071 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2072 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2073 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2074 the variable for details.
2079 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2081 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2082 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2083 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2084 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2086 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2088 Previously, library users were required to call
2089 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2090 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2091 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2092 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2093 too out of date for that API.
2095 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2097 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2098 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2099 atomic section will be aborted.
2101 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2102 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2104 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2106 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2107 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2108 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2109 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2110 messages into the same thread.
2115 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2116 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2117 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2118 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2119 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2120 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2125 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2126 from the config file. Use something like:
2130 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2131 "footer": "</body></html>",
2140 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2145 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2146 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2147 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2149 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2150 ===========================
2155 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2157 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2159 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2161 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2162 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2164 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2166 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2169 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2170 ===========================
2172 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2177 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2179 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2181 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2183 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2185 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2191 Use --quick when starting emacs
2193 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2195 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2197 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2199 Command-Line Interface
2200 ----------------------
2202 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2203 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2208 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2210 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2211 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2213 Fix for phrase indexing
2215 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2216 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2217 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2222 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2224 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2225 unintentionally removed.
2227 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2228 =========================
2233 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2234 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2235 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2236 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2237 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2238 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2239 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2240 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2241 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2247 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2249 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2250 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2251 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2252 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2253 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2254 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2255 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2256 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2258 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2260 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2261 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2262 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2263 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2266 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2268 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2269 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2270 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2271 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2272 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2273 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2274 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2279 Notmuch database upgrade
2281 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2282 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2283 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2284 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2285 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2286 released version of Notmuch before now.
2288 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2290 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2291 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2292 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2293 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2295 Message header parsing changes
2297 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2298 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2299 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2300 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2301 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2302 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2304 Command-Line Interface
2305 ----------------------
2307 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2309 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2311 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2313 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2315 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2317 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2318 user does not want it.
2320 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2322 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2323 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2324 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2325 support formatted output.
2327 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2329 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2330 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2331 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2339 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2340 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2341 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2342 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2343 `~/.emacs` with these.
2345 Changed format for saved searches
2347 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2348 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2349 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2350 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2353 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2354 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2355 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2356 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2358 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2359 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2360 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2362 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2363 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2364 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2365 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2366 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2368 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2370 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2371 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2372 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2374 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2376 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2377 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2378 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2379 message had been unread).
2381 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2382 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2383 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2384 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2386 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2387 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2388 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2390 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2391 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2392 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2393 to tags already present.
2397 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2398 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2399 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2400 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2401 these differ from each other.
2402 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2404 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2406 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2407 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2408 for these Emacs versions.
2410 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2412 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2413 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2415 Bug fixes for sender identities
2417 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2418 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2419 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2421 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2423 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2424 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2425 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2426 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2428 Reply pushes mark before signature
2430 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2431 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2432 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2434 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2436 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2437 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2443 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2444 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2446 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2447 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2448 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2449 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2451 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2452 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2453 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2454 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2455 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2457 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2459 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2460 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2462 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2463 =========================
2465 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2466 ---------------------------------------
2468 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2469 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2470 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2471 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2472 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2473 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2474 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2478 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2479 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2481 Command-Line Interface
2482 ----------------------
2484 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2486 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2487 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2488 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2489 print for each message.
2491 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2492 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2493 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2494 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2496 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2498 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2499 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2500 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2502 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2504 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2505 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2506 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2507 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2509 `notmuch compact` command
2511 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2512 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2513 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2514 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2515 move the compacted database into place.
2520 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2522 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2523 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2524 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2525 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2526 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2527 and multiple threads.
2529 Using `notmuch-tree`
2531 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2533 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2534 search, show and tree mode itself)
2536 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2539 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2540 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2542 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2544 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2545 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2546 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2547 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2548 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2549 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2550 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2552 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2554 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2555 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2556 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2557 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2558 thread when the search was performed.
2560 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2562 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2563 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2564 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2566 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2568 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2569 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2572 Built-in help improvements
2574 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2575 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2576 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2578 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2580 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2581 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2582 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2584 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2586 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2587 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2589 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2591 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2592 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2593 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2594 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2596 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2598 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2599 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2600 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2601 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2603 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2605 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2606 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2607 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2609 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2611 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2612 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2613 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2615 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2617 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2618 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2619 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2620 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2621 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2623 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2625 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2626 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2627 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2628 the body part of the message.
2633 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2634 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2635 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2637 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2638 =========================
2640 Command-Line Interface
2641 ----------------------
2643 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2645 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2646 folder and notmuch index.
2648 `notmuch count --batch` option
2650 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2651 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2653 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2655 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2656 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2657 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2660 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2662 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2663 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2664 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2665 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2666 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2669 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2671 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2672 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2674 Top level option to specify configuration file
2676 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2677 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2679 Bash command-line completion
2681 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2682 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2683 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2684 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2685 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2686 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2687 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2688 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2689 bash-completion package.
2691 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2696 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2698 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2699 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2700 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2701 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2702 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2703 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2704 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2705 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2707 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2709 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2710 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2711 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2713 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2715 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2716 previous thread in the search results.
2718 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2720 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2721 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2723 Faster search and show
2725 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2726 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2727 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2728 threads should show faster.
2732 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2733 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2734 in question was now removed from this release.
2739 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2740 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2745 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2747 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2748 ===========================
2753 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2755 Internal test framework changes
2756 -------------------------------
2758 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2759 being unimplemented.
2761 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2762 ===========================
2764 Internal test framework changes
2765 -------------------------------
2767 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2768 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2770 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2771 =========================
2776 Date range search support
2778 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2779 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2780 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2781 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2782 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2785 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2787 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2788 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2789 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2790 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2791 but may be removed in a future release.
2793 Command-Line Interface
2794 ----------------------
2796 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2798 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2799 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2801 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2803 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2804 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2805 officially deprecated.
2807 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2809 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2810 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2811 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2813 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2815 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2816 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2819 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2820 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2821 dump/restore format.
2823 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2825 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2826 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2827 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2829 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2831 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2832 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2833 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2835 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2837 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2838 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2839 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2840 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2845 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2847 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2848 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2849 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2850 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2852 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2854 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2855 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2856 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2857 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2858 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2859 the behavior of this, see
2860 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2861 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2863 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2864 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2865 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2867 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2869 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2870 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2873 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2875 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2876 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2877 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2878 simply displayed in place of the message.
2880 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2882 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2883 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2885 Improved text/calendar content handling
2887 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2888 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2889 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2890 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2892 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2894 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2895 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2896 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2897 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2899 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2901 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2902 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2903 for HTML email containing images.
2905 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2907 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2909 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2911 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2914 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2916 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2917 the point where it was.
2919 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2921 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2922 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2923 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2924 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2925 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2927 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2929 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2930 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2931 thread instead of the message id.
2933 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2934 -----------------------------
2936 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2937 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2938 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2939 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2940 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2941 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2942 further details and installation.
2947 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2949 Internal test framework changes
2950 -------------------------------
2952 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2954 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2955 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2956 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2957 can result in buggy behavior.
2959 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2960 =========================
2965 Maildir tag synchronization
2967 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2968 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2969 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2970 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2971 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2972 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2975 Command-Line Interface
2976 ----------------------
2978 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2979 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2980 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2981 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2982 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2988 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2990 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2992 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2993 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2994 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2996 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2998 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2999 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3000 span multiple lines.
3002 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3004 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3005 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3006 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3007 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3008 inside the result or message.
3010 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3012 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3013 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3015 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3016 user-specified formatting
3018 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3019 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3020 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3021 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3022 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3024 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3025 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3027 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3028 ===========================
3033 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3034 compilation error for this contrib package.
3036 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3037 ===========================
3042 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3044 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3045 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3046 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3047 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3049 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3050 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3053 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3054 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3055 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3056 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3059 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3061 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3064 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3065 =========================
3067 Command-Line Interface
3068 ----------------------
3072 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3073 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3074 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3075 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3077 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3078 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3079 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3080 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3084 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3085 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3087 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3088 tag in your query, for example:
3090 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3092 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3093 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3095 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3096 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3098 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3100 Raw show format changes
3102 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3103 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3104 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3105 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3106 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3107 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3108 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3109 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3111 Listing configuration items
3113 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3119 Changes to tagging interface
3121 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3122 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3123 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3124 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3125 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3126 for more information.
3128 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3129 may need to update in custom configurations.
3131 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3133 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3134 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3135 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3136 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3139 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3140 -----------------------------
3142 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3143 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3144 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3145 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3146 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3147 contrib/ from now on.
3152 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3153 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3155 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3156 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3158 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3159 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3160 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3162 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3163 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3165 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3166 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3167 returning the new database object or directory object.
3174 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3175 compatible with go 1.
3177 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3178 =========================
3180 Command-Line Interface
3181 ----------------------
3185 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3186 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3187 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3188 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3190 Mail store folder/file ignore
3192 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3193 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3194 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3196 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3197 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3199 Unified help and manual pages
3201 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3202 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3205 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3207 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3208 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3216 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3217 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3218 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3219 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3221 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3223 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3224 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3226 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3229 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3230 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3231 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3233 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3235 should be changed to:
3237 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3239 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3241 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3242 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3244 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3246 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3247 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3248 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3249 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3250 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3251 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3255 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3256 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3257 of Mailing List Archives.
3259 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3261 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3262 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3265 Show view archiving key binding changes
3267 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3268 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3269 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3270 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3271 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3274 Support text/calendar MIME type
3276 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3279 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3281 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3282 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3283 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3284 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3286 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3288 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3289 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3290 messages blue by default in the search view.
3294 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3295 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3302 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3305 Python bindings changes
3306 -----------------------
3308 Python 3.2 compatibility
3310 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3312 Added missing unicode conversions
3314 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3315 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3316 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3321 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3323 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3324 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3325 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3326 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3327 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3329 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3330 ===========================
3335 Fix error handling in python bindings
3337 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3338 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3339 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3340 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3342 Quote MML tags in replies
3344 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3345 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3346 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3347 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3348 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3349 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3350 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3351 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3353 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3354 =========================
3356 Command-Line Interface
3357 ----------------------
3361 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3362 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3363 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3364 importing new messages into the database.
3366 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3368 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3369 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3370 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3375 Automatic tag query optimization
3377 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3378 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3379 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3381 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3383 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3384 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3385 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3390 Reduction of memory leaks
3392 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3393 and fixed in this release.
3400 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3401 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3402 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3405 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3407 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3408 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3409 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3412 Improvements in saved search management
3414 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3415 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3416 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3418 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3420 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3421 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3422 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3424 New face for crypto parts headers
3426 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3427 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3428 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3431 Use space as default thousands separator
3433 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3434 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3435 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3437 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3438 buttonized id: links
3440 New function notmuch-show-advance
3442 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3443 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3444 be bound to SPC with:
3446 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3448 Various performance improvements
3453 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3454 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3457 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3458 ===========================
3463 Fix crash in python bindings
3465 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3466 for some, but not all users.
3468 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3469 ===========================
3474 Fix `--help` argument
3476 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3477 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3478 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3480 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3481 =========================
3483 New build and testing features
3484 ------------------------------
3486 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3487 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3488 prerequisites is improved.
3490 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3492 New command-line features
3493 -------------------------
3495 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3497 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3498 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3501 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3503 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3504 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3505 favour of using stdout.
3507 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3509 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3510 limit the number of results shown.
3512 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3514 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3515 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3518 New emacs UI features
3519 ---------------------
3521 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3523 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3524 starting with "tag:".
3526 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3528 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3529 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3531 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3533 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3535 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3537 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3538 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3543 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3545 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3547 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3548 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3549 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3550 requires a database rebuild:
3552 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3553 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3555 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3557 New collection of add-on tools
3558 ------------------------------
3560 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3561 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3562 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3565 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3567 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3568 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3569 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3571 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3572 ========================
3574 New, general features
3575 ---------------------
3577 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3579 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3580 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3581 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3582 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3583 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3590 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3591 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3593 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3597 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3598 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3599 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3602 Python bindings changes
3603 -----------------------
3605 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3607 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3608 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3609 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3610 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3611 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3612 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3614 Ruby bindings changes
3615 ---------------------
3617 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3618 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3619 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3620 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3625 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3627 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3628 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3630 Reply formatting cleanup
3631 ------------------------
3633 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3634 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3636 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3637 ========================
3639 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3641 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3642 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3643 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3644 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3647 Improved Build system portability
3649 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3650 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3651 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3653 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3655 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3657 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3659 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3660 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3661 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3663 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3664 ========================
3666 Vim interface improvements
3667 --------------------------
3669 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3671 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3672 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3673 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3674 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3675 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3677 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3679 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3680 * fix compose temp file name
3682 Python Bindings changes
3683 -----------------------
3685 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3687 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3688 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3690 Build-System improvements
3691 -------------------------
3693 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3695 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3698 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3699 ==========================
3704 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3706 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3707 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3709 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3710 =======================
3712 New, general features
3713 ---------------------
3715 Folder-based searching
3717 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3718 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3719 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3723 For example, one might use things such as:
3729 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3730 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3732 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3733 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3734 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3735 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3737 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3738 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3739 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3742 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3743 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3745 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3747 Support for PGP/MIME
3749 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3750 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3751 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3753 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3755 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3756 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3758 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3759 notmuch will receive these tags.
3761 New command-line features
3762 -------------------------
3764 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3766 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3767 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3769 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3771 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3772 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3773 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3775 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3777 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3778 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3779 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3780 which parts a signature part applies).
3782 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3784 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3785 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3786 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3787 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3788 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3791 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3793 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3794 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3795 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3796 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3797 by translating it internally to the new call.
3799 Performance improvements
3800 ------------------------
3802 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3804 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3805 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3806 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3808 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3809 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3811 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3813 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3814 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3815 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3817 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3818 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3819 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3820 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3822 Faster initial indexing
3824 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3825 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3826 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3828 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3830 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3831 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3832 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3833 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3835 New emacs-interface features
3836 ----------------------------
3838 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3840 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3841 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3842 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3843 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3844 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3845 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3847 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3849 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3850 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3851 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3852 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3854 User-selectable From address
3856 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3857 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3858 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3859 will prompt for the from address to use.
3861 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3862 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3863 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3865 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3866 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3867 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3870 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3872 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3873 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3875 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3877 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3879 ----- Original Message -----
3881 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3882 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3883 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3884 citations work much like conventional citations.
3886 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3888 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3889 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3890 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3891 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3892 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3894 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3895 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3897 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3899 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3900 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3901 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3903 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3905 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3906 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3907 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3908 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3909 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3911 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3913 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3916 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3918 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3920 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3922 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3925 Vim interface improvements
3926 --------------------------
3928 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3930 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3931 * Implementing archive in show view
3932 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3933 * Add delete commands
3936 Bindings improvements
3937 ---------------------
3939 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3941 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3942 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3944 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3946 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3950 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3951 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3952 `list(Messages)` works now
3953 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3955 These allow, for example:
3957 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3959 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3961 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3967 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3969 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3972 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3974 New build-system features
3975 -------------------------
3977 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3979 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3980 the configure script from some other directory:
3987 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3989 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3990 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3991 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3992 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3993 manual invocation of configure.
3995 New test-suite feature
3996 ----------------------
3998 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4000 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4001 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4002 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4003 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4004 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4007 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4009 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4010 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4011 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4012 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4013 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4014 are updated to take advantage of this.
4016 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4018 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4019 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4020 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4021 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4027 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4029 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4030 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4031 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4033 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4035 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4037 to:user@elsewhere.com
4039 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4041 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4043 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4045 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4046 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4047 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4050 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4051 from the Received headers in some cases
4053 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4054 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4056 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4058 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4060 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4062 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4063 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4064 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4066 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4067 -------------------------
4069 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4071 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4072 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4073 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4075 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4077 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4078 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4079 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4082 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4084 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4085 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4086 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4087 fixed to avoid this bug.
4089 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4091 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4092 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4094 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4095 ========================
4097 New, general features
4098 ---------------------
4100 Maildir-flag synchronization
4102 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4103 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4112 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4114 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4115 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4116 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4117 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4119 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4120 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4121 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4122 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4125 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4127 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4128 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4129 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4131 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4132 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4134 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4135 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4137 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4138 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4139 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4141 New library features
4142 --------------------
4144 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4146 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4147 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4148 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4149 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4151 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4152 message with the new function:
4154 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4156 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4157 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4158 over all available filenames for a given message.
4160 New command-line features
4161 -------------------------
4163 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4165 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4166 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4167 access to the mail store itself.
4169 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4170 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4171 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4172 name of a script containing:
4174 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4176 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4177 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4183 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4185 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4187 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4189 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4190 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4191 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4192 now produces nothing).
4194 Emacs interface improvements
4195 ----------------------------
4197 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4199 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4201 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4203 Display current thread subject in a header line
4205 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4207 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4209 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4210 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4211 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4212 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4213 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4214 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4215 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4217 Vim interface improvements
4218 --------------------------
4220 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4222 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4223 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4229 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4231 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4232 ========================
4234 New command-line features
4235 -------------------------
4237 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4239 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4240 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4241 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4243 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4244 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4245 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4246 scripts. For example:
4248 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4249 <operations-on> "$file"
4252 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4254 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4255 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4256 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4257 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4258 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4259 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4261 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4263 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4264 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4265 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4266 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4268 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4270 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4271 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4272 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4273 default rather than Bcc.
4275 New library features
4276 --------------------
4278 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4280 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4281 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4286 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4288 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4289 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4290 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4291 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4292 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4293 notmuch customize interface.
4295 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4297 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4298 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4299 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4300 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4302 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4304 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4305 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4306 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4307 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4309 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4311 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4312 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4313 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4314 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4315 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4316 notmuch customize interface.
4318 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4320 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4321 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4322 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4323 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4324 notmuch customize interface.
4326 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4328 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4329 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4330 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4331 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4334 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4336 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4337 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4338 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4341 New build-system features
4342 -------------------------
4344 Various portability fixes have been applied
4346 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4347 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4348 more portable than ever before.
4350 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4352 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4353 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4354 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4356 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4357 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4358 automatically run ldconfig.
4360 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4361 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4362 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4364 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4365 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4366 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4367 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4369 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4371 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4372 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4373 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4374 used in the resulting Makefile.
4376 New test-suite features
4377 -----------------------
4379 New modularization of test suite
4381 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4382 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4383 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4384 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4385 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4386 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4387 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4388 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4390 New testing of emacs interface
4392 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4393 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4394 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4395 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4396 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4397 database via the FCC setting.
4402 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4404 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4405 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4406 persistent error of the form:
4408 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4410 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4411 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4413 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4415 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4416 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4417 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4419 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4421 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4422 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4423 parsing the notmuch results).
4425 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4427 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4430 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4431 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4432 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4437 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4439 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4440 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4441 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4442 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4443 the emacs interface.
4445 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4447 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4448 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4449 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4451 Python-binding fixes
4452 --------------------
4454 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4456 Debian-specific fixes
4457 ---------------------
4459 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4461 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4462 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4463 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4466 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4467 ==========================
4472 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4474 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4475 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4476 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4477 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4479 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4481 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4482 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4483 want notmuch to crash.
4488 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4490 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4491 directory does not exist
4496 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4498 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4499 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4501 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4502 ========================
4504 New command-line features
4505 -------------------------
4507 User-configurable tags for new messages
4509 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4510 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4511 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4512 to specify this value.
4514 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4516 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4517 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4518 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4520 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4522 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4523 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4525 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4527 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4528 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4529 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4530 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4531 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4534 Indication of author names that match a search
4536 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4537 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4538 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4539 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4540 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4541 messages in the thread are listed first.
4543 New: Python bindings
4544 --------------------
4546 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4547 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4548 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4549 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4551 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4552 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4553 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4556 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4557 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4558 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4560 Emacs interface improvements
4561 ----------------------------
4563 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4565 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4566 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4567 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4568 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4569 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4570 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4571 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4572 but without any of the disadvantages).
4574 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4575 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4576 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4579 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4580 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4581 instead running something like:
4583 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4585 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4586 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4587 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4590 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4592 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4593 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4594 tweaked by the user.
4596 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4597 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4598 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4601 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4602 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4603 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4606 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4608 This support currently relies on an external program,
4609 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4610 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4611 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4612 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4613 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4616 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4617 notmuch) is available via:
4619 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4621 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4622 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4623 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4625 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4627 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4628 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4629 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4630 making this automatic in a future release.
4632 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4634 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4635 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4636 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4637 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4638 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4639 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4642 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4644 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4645 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4646 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4648 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4650 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4651 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4652 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4654 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4655 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4656 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4657 other representation.
4659 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4660 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4663 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4665 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4666 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4667 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4669 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4670 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4671 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4673 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4675 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4676 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4677 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4678 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4679 to display the search result.
4681 More flexible handling of header visibility
4683 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4684 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4685 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4686 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4687 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4688 with the 'h' keybinding.
4690 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4691 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4692 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4694 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4696 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4698 Customizable formatting of search results
4700 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4701 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4702 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4704 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4706 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4708 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4713 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4715 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4716 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4717 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4718 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4724 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4726 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4727 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4729 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4731 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4732 accept are now all accepted.
4737 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4739 Better display of output from failed tests
4741 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4742 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4744 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4745 ========================
4747 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4748 detailed release notes this time!
4750 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4751 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4753 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4754 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4755 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4756 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4763 Better guessing of From: header
4765 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4766 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4767 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4768 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4769 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4772 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4774 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4775 guaranteed to match all messages.
4777 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4779 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4780 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4781 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4782 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4783 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4786 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4789 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4790 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4791 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4792 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4797 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4799 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4800 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4801 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4802 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4804 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4806 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4808 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4809 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4810 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4812 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4814 Previously, the user might see:
4816 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4820 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4822 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4823 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4824 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4825 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4827 Emacs client features
4828 ---------------------
4830 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4832 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4833 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4834 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4835 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4836 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4838 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4841 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4842 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4843 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4844 search with the '*' binding.
4846 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4848 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4849 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4852 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4854 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4855 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4856 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4858 Build-system features
4859 ---------------------
4861 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4863 Add support to configure for many standard options
4865 We include actual support for:
4867 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4869 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4871 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4872 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4874 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4875 separate "make install-emacs"
4877 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4879 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4880 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4881 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4883 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4886 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4887 ========================
4889 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4891 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4892 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4894 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4895 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4896 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4897 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4898 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4899 tags from messages in a thread.
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