1 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
2 ===========================
7 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
9 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
10 ===========================
15 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64
17 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
18 =========================
20 Command-Line Interface
21 ----------------------
23 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
25 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
26 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
27 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
29 Path to gpg is now configurable
31 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
32 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
37 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
39 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
44 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
49 Support messages without Message-IDs.
54 Undeprecate single message mboxes
56 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
57 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
59 New error logging facility
61 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
62 output formerly printed to stderr.
64 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
66 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
68 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
70 Fix for rounding of seconds
75 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
77 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
78 docmumentation has been removed.
80 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
82 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
83 some material from the relicensed wiki.
88 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
89 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
90 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
95 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
96 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
97 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
98 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
99 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
100 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
103 git checkout config origin/config
105 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
107 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
108 =========================
113 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
114 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
115 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
116 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
117 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
118 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
119 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
121 Command-Line Interface
122 ----------------------
124 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
126 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
127 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
128 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
129 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
130 script callers should still check the return value.
132 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
134 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
135 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
136 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
137 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
138 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
139 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
140 and returning success even if indexing fails).
142 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
144 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
145 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
146 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
148 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
150 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
151 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
152 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
153 currently unmaintained.
155 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
157 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
158 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
159 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
160 have at least `N` files associated with them.
162 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
164 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
165 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
166 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
167 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
168 count of duplicate addresses.
173 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
175 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
176 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
177 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
180 Improved handling of the unread tag
182 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
183 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
184 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
185 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
186 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
187 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
188 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
190 Expanded default saved search settings
192 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
193 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
195 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
197 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
198 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
199 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
201 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
203 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
204 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
205 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
206 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
207 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
208 the variable for details.
213 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
215 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
216 Representing these independently of the database version number will
217 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
218 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
220 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
222 Previously, library users were required to call
223 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
224 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
225 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
226 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
227 too out of date for that API.
229 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
231 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
232 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
233 atomic section will be aborted.
235 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
236 `notmuch_database_destroy`
238 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
240 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
241 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
242 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
243 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
244 messages into the same thread.
249 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
250 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
251 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
252 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
253 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
254 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
259 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
260 from the config file. Use something like:
264 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
265 "footer": "</body></html>",
274 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
279 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
280 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
281 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
283 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
284 ===========================
289 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
291 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
293 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
295 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
296 structure for signatures changed slightly.
298 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
300 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
303 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
304 ===========================
306 This is a bug fix and portability release.
311 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
313 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
315 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
317 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
319 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
325 Use --quick when starting emacs
327 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
329 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
331 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
333 Command-Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
337 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
342 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
344 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
345 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
347 Fix for phrase indexing
349 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
350 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
351 will affect only newly indexed messages.
356 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
358 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
359 unintentionally removed.
361 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
362 =========================
367 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
368 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
369 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
370 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
371 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
372 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
373 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
374 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
375 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
381 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
383 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
384 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
385 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
386 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
387 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
388 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
389 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
390 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
392 There is a new `path:` search prefix
394 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
395 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
396 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
397 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
400 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
402 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
403 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
404 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
405 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
406 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
407 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
408 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
413 Notmuch database upgrade
415 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
416 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
417 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
418 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
419 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
420 released version of Notmuch before now.
422 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
424 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
425 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
426 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
427 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
429 Message header parsing changes
431 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
432 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
433 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
434 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
435 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
436 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
438 Command-Line Interface
439 ----------------------
441 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
443 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
445 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
447 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
449 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
451 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
452 user does not want it.
454 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
456 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
457 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
458 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
459 support formatted output.
461 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
463 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
464 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
465 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
473 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
474 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
475 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
476 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
477 `~/.emacs` with these.
479 Changed format for saved searches
481 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
482 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
483 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
484 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
487 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
488 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
489 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
490 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
492 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
493 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
494 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
496 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
497 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
498 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
499 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
500 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
502 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
504 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
505 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
506 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
508 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
510 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
511 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
512 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
513 message had been unread).
515 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
516 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
517 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
518 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
520 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
521 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
522 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
524 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
525 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
526 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
527 to tags already present.
531 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
532 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
533 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
534 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
535 these differ from each other.
536 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
538 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
540 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
541 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
542 for these Emacs versions.
544 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
546 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
547 newlines before calling notmuch count.
549 Bug fixes for sender identities
551 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
552 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
553 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
555 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
557 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
558 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
559 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
560 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
562 Reply pushes mark before signature
564 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
565 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
566 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
568 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
570 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
571 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
577 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
578 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
580 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
581 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
582 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
583 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
585 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
586 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
587 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
588 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
589 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
591 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
593 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
594 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
596 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
597 =========================
599 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
600 ---------------------------------------
602 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
603 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
604 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
605 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
606 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
607 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
608 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
612 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
613 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
615 Command-Line Interface
616 ----------------------
618 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
620 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
621 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
622 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
623 print for each message.
625 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
626 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
627 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
628 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
630 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
632 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
633 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
634 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
636 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
638 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
639 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
640 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
641 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
643 `notmuch compact` command
645 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
646 functionality through a more convenient interface than
647 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
648 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
649 move the compacted database into place.
654 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
656 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
657 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
658 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
659 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
660 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
661 and multiple threads.
665 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
667 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
668 search, show and tree mode itself)
670 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
673 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
674 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
676 Customising `notmuch-tree`
678 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
679 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
680 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
681 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
682 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
683 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
684 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
686 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
688 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
689 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
690 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
691 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
692 thread when the search was performed.
694 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
696 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
697 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
698 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
700 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
702 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
703 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
706 Built-in help improvements
708 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
709 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
710 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
712 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
714 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
715 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
716 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
718 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
720 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
721 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
723 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
725 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
726 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
727 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
728 to move some of them to the common keymap.
730 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
732 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
733 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
734 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
735 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
737 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
739 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
740 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
741 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
743 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
745 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
746 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
747 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
749 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
751 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
752 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
753 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
754 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
755 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
757 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
759 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
760 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
761 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
762 the body part of the message.
767 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
768 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
769 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
771 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
772 =========================
774 Command-Line Interface
775 ----------------------
777 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
779 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
780 folder and notmuch index.
782 `notmuch count --batch` option
784 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
785 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
787 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
789 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
790 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
791 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
794 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
796 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
797 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
798 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
799 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
800 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
803 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
805 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
806 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
808 Top level option to specify configuration file
810 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
811 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
813 Bash command-line completion
815 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
816 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
817 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
818 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
819 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
820 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
821 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
822 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
823 bash-completion package.
825 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
830 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
832 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
833 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
834 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
835 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
836 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
837 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
838 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
839 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
841 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
843 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
844 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
845 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
847 Key bindings for next/previous thread
849 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
850 previous thread in the search results.
852 Better handling of errors in search buffers
854 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
855 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
857 Faster search and show
859 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
860 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
861 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
862 threads should show faster.
866 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
867 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
868 in question was now removed from this release.
873 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
874 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
879 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
881 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
882 ===========================
887 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
889 Internal test framework changes
890 -------------------------------
892 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
895 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
896 ===========================
898 Internal test framework changes
899 -------------------------------
901 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
902 build failures in non-interactive environments.
904 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
905 =========================
910 Date range search support
912 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
913 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
914 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
915 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
916 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
919 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
921 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
922 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
923 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
924 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
925 but may be removed in a future release.
927 Command-Line Interface
928 ----------------------
930 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
932 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
933 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
935 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
937 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
938 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
939 officially deprecated.
941 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
943 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
944 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
945 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
947 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
949 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
950 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
953 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
954 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
957 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
959 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
960 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
961 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
963 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
965 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
966 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
967 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
969 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
971 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
972 output separated by null characters rather than newline
973 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
974 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
979 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
981 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
982 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
983 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
984 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
986 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
988 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
989 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
990 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
991 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
992 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
993 the behavior of this, see
994 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
995 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
997 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
998 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
999 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1001 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1003 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1004 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1007 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1009 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1010 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1011 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1012 simply displayed in place of the message.
1014 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1016 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1017 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1019 Improved text/calendar content handling
1021 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1022 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1023 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1024 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1026 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1028 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1029 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1030 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1031 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1033 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1035 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1036 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1037 for HTML email containing images.
1039 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1041 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1043 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1045 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1048 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1050 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1051 the point where it was.
1053 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1055 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1056 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1057 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1058 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1059 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1061 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1063 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1064 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1065 thread instead of the message id.
1067 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1068 -----------------------------
1070 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1071 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1072 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1073 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1074 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1075 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1076 further details and installation.
1081 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1083 Internal test framework changes
1084 -------------------------------
1086 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1088 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1089 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1090 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1091 can result in buggy behavior.
1093 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1094 =========================
1099 Maildir tag synchronization
1101 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1102 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1103 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1104 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1105 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1106 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1109 Command-Line Interface
1110 ----------------------
1112 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1113 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1114 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1115 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1116 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1122 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1124 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1126 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1127 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1128 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1130 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1132 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1133 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1134 span multiple lines.
1136 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1138 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1139 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1140 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1141 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1142 inside the result or message.
1144 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1146 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1147 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1149 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1150 user-specified formatting
1152 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1153 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1154 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1155 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1156 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1158 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1159 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1161 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1162 ===========================
1167 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1168 compilation error for this contrib package.
1170 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1171 ===========================
1176 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1178 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1179 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1180 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1181 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1183 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1184 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1187 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1188 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1189 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1190 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1193 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1195 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1198 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1199 =========================
1201 Command-Line Interface
1202 ----------------------
1206 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1207 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1208 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1209 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1211 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1212 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1213 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1214 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1218 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1219 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1221 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1222 tag in your query, for example:
1224 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1226 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1227 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1229 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1230 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1232 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1234 Raw show format changes
1236 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1237 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1238 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1239 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1240 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1241 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1242 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1243 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1245 Listing configuration items
1247 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1253 Changes to tagging interface
1255 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1256 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1257 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1258 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1259 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1260 for more information.
1262 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1263 may need to update in custom configurations.
1265 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1267 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1268 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1269 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1270 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1273 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1274 -----------------------------
1276 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1277 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1278 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1279 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1280 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1281 contrib/ from now on.
1286 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1287 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1289 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1290 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1292 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1293 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1294 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1296 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1297 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1299 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1300 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1301 returning the new database object or directory object.
1308 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1309 compatible with go 1.
1311 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1312 =========================
1314 Command-Line Interface
1315 ----------------------
1319 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1320 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1321 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1322 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1324 Mail store folder/file ignore
1326 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1327 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1328 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1330 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1331 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1333 Unified help and manual pages
1335 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1336 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1339 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1341 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1342 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1350 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1351 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1352 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1353 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1355 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1357 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1358 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1360 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1363 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1364 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1365 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1367 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1369 should be changed to:
1371 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1373 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1375 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1376 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1378 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1380 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1381 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1382 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1383 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1384 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1385 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1389 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1390 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1391 of Mailing List Archives.
1393 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1395 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1396 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1399 Show view archiving key binding changes
1401 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1402 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1403 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1404 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1405 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1408 Support text/calendar MIME type
1410 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1413 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1415 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1416 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1417 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1418 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1420 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1422 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1423 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1424 messages blue by default in the search view.
1428 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1429 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1436 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1439 Python bindings changes
1440 -----------------------
1442 Python 3.2 compatibility
1444 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1446 Added missing unicode conversions
1448 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1449 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1450 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1455 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1457 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1458 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1459 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1460 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1461 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1463 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1464 ===========================
1469 Fix error handling in python bindings
1471 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1472 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1473 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1474 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1476 Quote MML tags in replies
1478 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1479 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1480 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1481 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1482 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1483 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1484 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1485 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1487 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1488 =========================
1490 Command-Line Interface
1491 ----------------------
1495 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1496 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1497 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1498 importing new messages into the database.
1500 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1502 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1503 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1504 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1509 Automatic tag query optimization
1511 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1512 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1513 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1515 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1517 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1518 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1519 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1524 Reduction of memory leaks
1526 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1527 and fixed in this release.
1534 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1535 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1536 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1539 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1541 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1542 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1543 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1546 Improvements in saved search management
1548 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1549 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1550 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1552 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1554 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1555 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1556 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1558 New face for crypto parts headers
1560 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1561 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1562 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1565 Use space as default thousands separator
1567 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1568 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1569 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1571 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1572 buttonized id: links
1574 New function notmuch-show-advance
1576 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1577 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1578 be bound to SPC with:
1580 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1582 Various performance improvements
1587 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1588 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1591 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1592 ===========================
1597 Fix crash in python bindings
1599 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1600 for some, but not all users.
1602 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1603 ===========================
1608 Fix `--help` argument
1610 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1611 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1612 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1614 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1615 =========================
1617 New build and testing features
1618 ------------------------------
1620 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1621 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1622 prerequisites is improved.
1624 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1626 New command-line features
1627 -------------------------
1629 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1631 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1632 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1635 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1637 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1638 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1639 favour of using stdout.
1641 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1643 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1644 limit the number of results shown.
1646 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1648 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1649 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1652 New emacs UI features
1653 ---------------------
1655 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1657 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1658 starting with "tag:".
1660 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1662 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1663 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1665 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1667 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1669 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1671 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1672 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1677 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1679 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1681 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1682 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1683 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1684 requires a database rebuild:
1686 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1687 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1689 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1691 New collection of add-on tools
1692 ------------------------------
1694 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1695 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1696 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1699 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1701 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1702 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1703 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1705 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1706 ========================
1708 New, general features
1709 ---------------------
1711 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1713 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1714 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1715 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1716 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1717 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1724 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1725 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1727 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1731 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1732 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1733 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1736 Python bindings changes
1737 -----------------------
1739 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1741 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1742 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1743 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1744 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1745 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1746 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1748 Ruby bindings changes
1749 ---------------------
1751 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1752 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1753 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1754 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1759 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1761 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1762 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1764 Reply formatting cleanup
1765 ------------------------
1767 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1768 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1770 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1771 ========================
1773 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1775 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1776 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1777 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1778 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1781 Improved Build system portability
1783 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1784 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1785 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1787 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1789 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1791 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1793 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1794 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1795 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1797 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1798 ========================
1800 Vim interface improvements
1801 --------------------------
1803 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1805 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1806 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1807 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1808 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1809 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1811 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1813 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1814 * fix compose temp file name
1816 Python Bindings changes
1817 -----------------------
1819 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1821 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1822 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1824 Build-System improvements
1825 -------------------------
1827 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1829 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1832 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1833 ==========================
1838 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1840 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1841 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1843 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1844 =======================
1846 New, general features
1847 ---------------------
1849 Folder-based searching
1851 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1852 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1853 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1857 For example, one might use things such as:
1863 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1864 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1866 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1867 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1868 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1869 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1871 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1872 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1873 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1876 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1877 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1879 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1881 Support for PGP/MIME
1883 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1884 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1885 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1887 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1889 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1890 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1892 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1893 notmuch will receive these tags.
1895 New command-line features
1896 -------------------------
1898 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1900 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1901 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1903 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1905 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1906 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1907 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1909 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1911 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1912 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1913 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1914 which parts a signature part applies).
1916 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1918 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1919 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1920 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1921 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1922 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1925 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1927 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1928 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1929 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1930 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1931 by translating it internally to the new call.
1933 Performance improvements
1934 ------------------------
1936 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1938 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1939 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1940 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1942 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1943 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1945 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1947 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1948 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1949 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1951 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1952 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1953 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1954 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1956 Faster initial indexing
1958 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1959 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1960 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1962 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1964 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1965 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1966 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1967 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1969 New emacs-interface features
1970 ----------------------------
1972 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1974 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1975 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1976 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1977 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1978 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1979 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1981 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1983 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1984 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1985 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1986 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1988 User-selectable From address
1990 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1991 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1992 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1993 will prompt for the from address to use.
1995 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1996 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1997 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1999 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2000 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2001 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2004 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2006 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2007 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2009 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2011 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2013 ----- Original Message -----
2015 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2016 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2017 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2018 citations work much like conventional citations.
2020 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2022 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2023 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2024 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2025 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2026 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2028 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2029 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2031 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2033 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2034 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2035 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2037 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2039 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2040 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2041 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2042 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2043 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2045 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2047 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2050 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2052 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2054 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2056 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2059 Vim interface improvements
2060 --------------------------
2062 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2064 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2065 * Implementing archive in show view
2066 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2067 * Add delete commands
2070 Bindings improvements
2071 ---------------------
2073 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2075 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2076 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2078 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2080 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2084 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2085 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2086 `list(Messages)` works now
2087 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2089 These allow, for example:
2091 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2093 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2095 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2101 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2103 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2106 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2108 New build-system features
2109 -------------------------
2111 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2113 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2114 the configure script from some other directory:
2121 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2123 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2124 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2125 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2126 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2127 manual invocation of configure.
2129 New test-suite feature
2130 ----------------------
2132 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2134 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2135 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2136 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2137 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2138 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2141 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2143 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2144 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2145 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2146 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2147 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2148 are updated to take advantage of this.
2150 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2152 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2153 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2154 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2155 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2161 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2163 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2164 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2165 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2167 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2169 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2171 to:user@elsewhere.com
2173 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2175 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2177 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2179 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2180 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2181 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2184 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2185 from the Received headers in some cases
2187 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2188 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2190 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2192 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2194 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2196 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2197 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2198 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2200 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2201 -------------------------
2203 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2205 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2206 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2207 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2209 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2211 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2212 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2213 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2216 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2218 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2219 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2220 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2221 fixed to avoid this bug.
2223 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2225 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2226 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2228 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2229 ========================
2231 New, general features
2232 ---------------------
2234 Maildir-flag synchronization
2236 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2237 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2246 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2248 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2249 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2250 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2251 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2253 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2254 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2255 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2256 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2259 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2261 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2262 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2263 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2265 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2266 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2268 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2269 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2271 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2272 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2273 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2275 New library features
2276 --------------------
2278 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2280 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2281 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2282 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2283 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2285 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2286 message with the new function:
2288 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2290 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2291 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2292 over all available filenames for a given message.
2294 New command-line features
2295 -------------------------
2297 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2299 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2300 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2301 access to the mail store itself.
2303 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2304 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2305 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2306 name of a script containing:
2308 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2310 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2311 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2317 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2319 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2321 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2323 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2324 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2325 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2326 now produces nothing).
2328 Emacs interface improvements
2329 ----------------------------
2331 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2333 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2335 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2337 Display current thread subject in a header line
2339 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2341 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2343 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2344 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2345 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2346 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2347 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2348 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2349 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2351 Vim interface improvements
2352 --------------------------
2354 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2356 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2357 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2363 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2365 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2366 ========================
2368 New command-line features
2369 -------------------------
2371 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2373 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2374 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2375 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2377 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2378 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2379 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2380 scripts. For example:
2382 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2383 <operations-on> "$file"
2386 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2388 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2389 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2390 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2391 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2392 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2393 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2395 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2397 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2398 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2399 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2400 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2402 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2404 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2405 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2406 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2407 default rather than Bcc.
2409 New library features
2410 --------------------
2412 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2414 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2415 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2420 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2422 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2423 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2424 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2425 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2426 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2427 notmuch customize interface.
2429 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2431 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2432 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2433 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2434 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2436 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2438 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2439 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2440 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2441 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2443 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2445 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2446 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2447 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2448 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2449 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2450 notmuch customize interface.
2452 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2454 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2455 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2456 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2457 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2458 notmuch customize interface.
2460 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2462 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2463 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2464 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2465 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2468 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2470 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2471 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2472 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2475 New build-system features
2476 -------------------------
2478 Various portability fixes have been applied
2480 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2481 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2482 more portable than ever before.
2484 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2486 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2487 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2488 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2490 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2491 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2492 automatically run ldconfig.
2494 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2495 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2496 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2498 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2499 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2500 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2501 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2503 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2505 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2506 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2507 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2508 used in the resulting Makefile.
2510 New test-suite features
2511 -----------------------
2513 New modularization of test suite
2515 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2516 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2517 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2518 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2519 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2520 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2521 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2522 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2524 New testing of emacs interface
2526 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2527 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2528 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2529 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2530 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2531 database via the FCC setting.
2536 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2538 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2539 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2540 persistent error of the form:
2542 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2544 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2545 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2547 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2549 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2550 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2551 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2553 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2555 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2556 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2557 parsing the notmuch results).
2559 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2561 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2564 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2565 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2566 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2571 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2573 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2574 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2575 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2576 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2577 the emacs interface.
2579 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2581 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2582 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2583 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2585 Python-binding fixes
2586 --------------------
2588 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2590 Debian-specific fixes
2591 ---------------------
2593 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2595 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2596 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2597 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2600 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2601 ==========================
2606 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2608 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2609 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2610 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2611 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2613 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2615 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2616 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2617 want notmuch to crash.
2622 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2624 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2625 directory does not exist
2630 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2632 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2633 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2635 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2636 ========================
2638 New command-line features
2639 -------------------------
2641 User-configurable tags for new messages
2643 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2644 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2645 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2646 to specify this value.
2648 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2650 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2651 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2652 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2654 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2656 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2657 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2659 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2661 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2662 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2663 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2664 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2665 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2668 Indication of author names that match a search
2670 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2671 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2672 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2673 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2674 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2675 messages in the thread are listed first.
2677 New: Python bindings
2678 --------------------
2680 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2681 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2682 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2683 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2685 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2686 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2687 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2690 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2691 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2692 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2694 Emacs interface improvements
2695 ----------------------------
2697 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2699 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2700 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2701 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2702 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2703 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2704 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2705 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2706 but without any of the disadvantages).
2708 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2709 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2710 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2713 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2714 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2715 instead running something like:
2717 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2719 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2720 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2721 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2724 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2726 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2727 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2728 tweaked by the user.
2730 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2731 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2732 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2735 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2736 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2737 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2740 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2742 This support currently relies on an external program,
2743 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2744 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2745 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2746 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2747 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2750 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2751 notmuch) is available via:
2753 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2755 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2756 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2757 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2759 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2761 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2762 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2763 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2764 making this automatic in a future release.
2766 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2768 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2769 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2770 run notmuch new and setup specific tags for the new emails. The
2771 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2772 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2773 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2776 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2778 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2779 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2780 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2782 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2784 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2785 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2786 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2788 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2789 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2790 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2791 other representation.
2793 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2794 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2797 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2799 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2800 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2801 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2803 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2804 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2805 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2807 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2809 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2810 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2811 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2812 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2813 to display the search result.
2815 More flexible handling of header visibility
2817 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2818 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2819 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2820 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2821 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2822 with the 'h' keybinding.
2824 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2825 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2826 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2828 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2830 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2832 Customizable formatting of search results
2834 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2835 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2836 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2838 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2840 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2842 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2847 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2849 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2850 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2851 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2852 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2858 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2860 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2861 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2863 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2865 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2866 accept are now all accepted.
2871 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2873 Better display of output from failed tests
2875 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2876 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2878 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2879 ========================
2881 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2882 detailed release notes this time!
2884 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2885 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2887 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2888 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2889 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2890 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2897 Better guessing of From: header
2899 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2900 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2901 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2902 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2903 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2906 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2908 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2909 guaranteed to match all messages.
2911 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2913 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2914 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2915 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2916 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2917 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2920 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2923 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2924 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2925 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2926 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2931 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2933 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2934 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2935 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2936 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2938 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2940 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2942 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2943 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2944 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2946 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2948 Previously, the user might see:
2950 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2954 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2956 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2957 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2958 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2959 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2961 Emacs client features
2962 ---------------------
2964 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2966 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2967 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2968 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2969 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2970 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2972 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2975 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2976 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2977 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2978 search with the '*' binding.
2980 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2982 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2983 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2986 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2988 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2989 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2990 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2992 Build-system features
2993 ---------------------
2995 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2997 Add support to configure for many standard options
2999 We include actual support for:
3001 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3003 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3005 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3006 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3008 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3009 separate "make install-emacs"
3011 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3013 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3014 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3015 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3017 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3020 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3021 ========================
3023 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3025 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3026 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3028 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3029 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3030 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3031 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3032 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3033 tags from messages in a thread.
3040 indent-tabs-mode: nil