1 Notmuch 0.27 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add support for thread:{} queries
9 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
10 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
11 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
13 Command Line Interface
14 ----------------------
16 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
18 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
23 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
29 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
30 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
32 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
33 ===========================
38 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`.
40 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
41 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
42 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
44 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
46 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
47 related abort in `notmuch show`.
49 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
50 ===========================
55 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
56 better late than never.
59 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
60 =========================
62 Command Line Interface
63 ----------------------
65 Support for re-indexing existing messages
67 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
68 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
69 change the way specific messages are indexed.
71 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
72 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
73 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
75 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
77 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
79 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
81 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
82 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
83 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
84 the setting of `new.tags`.
86 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
88 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
90 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
92 This inserts into the top level folder.
94 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
96 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
98 New option --output=address for notmuch address
100 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
102 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
104 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
105 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
106 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
108 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
113 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
115 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
116 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
117 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
118 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
119 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
120 config set index.decrypt true".
122 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
123 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
124 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
125 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
126 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
127 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
128 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
129 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
131 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
132 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
133 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
134 this feature without considering the security of your index.
139 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
141 Use make-process when available
143 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
144 notmuch command without using temporary files.
149 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
151 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
152 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
153 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
154 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
156 New functions to count files
158 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
159 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
161 New function to remove properties
163 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
164 drop all properties with a common pattern:
165 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
167 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
169 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
170 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
171 possibility of NULL was not documented.
173 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
175 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
176 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
177 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
178 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
179 operator may decide to change from message to message.
186 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
187 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
188 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
194 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
196 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
197 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
199 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
201 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
203 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
205 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
210 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
211 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
213 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
214 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
215 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
216 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
217 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
218 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
223 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
225 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
226 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
227 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
228 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
230 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
231 ===========================
236 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
237 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
240 Command Line Interface
241 ----------------------
243 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
244 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
247 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
248 ===========================
250 Command Line Interface
251 ----------------------
253 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
254 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
259 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
262 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
263 ===========================
268 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
271 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
272 =========================
277 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
279 Skip HTML tags when indexing
281 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
283 Command Line Interface
284 ----------------------
286 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
288 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
293 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
295 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
296 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
299 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
304 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
306 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
307 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
309 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
311 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
312 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
315 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
317 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
319 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
321 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
322 ===========================
324 Command Line Interface
325 ----------------------
327 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
332 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
334 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
335 ===========================
340 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
342 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
343 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
346 Command Line Interface
347 ----------------------
349 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
351 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
353 Fix bug in dump header
355 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
356 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
357 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
362 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
364 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
365 =========================
370 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
372 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
375 Command Line Interface
376 ----------------------
378 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
380 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
381 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
382 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
384 New default output format to 3
386 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
387 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
388 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
389 default format changes.
394 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
396 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
397 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
398 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
399 or tree view to resume.
401 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
402 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
403 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
406 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
407 they were when you postponed in the final message.
411 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
412 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
413 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
414 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
415 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
419 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
420 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
421 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
422 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
423 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
424 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
428 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
429 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
431 Stop display of `application/*` parts
433 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
434 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
435 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
436 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
437 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
438 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
439 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
440 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
443 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
445 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
446 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
447 only tagged the current thread.)
449 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
451 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
452 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
453 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
455 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
457 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
458 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
459 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
460 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
461 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
462 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
463 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
465 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
467 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
468 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
469 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
474 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
476 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
479 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
481 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
484 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
485 ===========================
490 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
492 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
493 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
494 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
497 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
498 ===========================
500 Command Line Interface
501 ----------------------
503 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
508 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
510 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
511 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
512 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
514 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
515 ===========================
520 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
521 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
523 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
524 ===========================
526 Command Line Interface
527 ----------------------
529 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
531 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
532 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
533 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
538 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
540 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
541 ===========================
543 Command Line Interface
544 ----------------------
546 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
551 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
553 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
554 ===========================
559 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
561 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
562 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
563 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
565 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
567 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
569 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
570 ===========================
575 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
577 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
582 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
584 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
585 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
586 the original colours.
588 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
589 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
591 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
593 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
594 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
595 bug, and hence the test.
597 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
598 =========================
600 General (Xapian 1.4+)
601 ---------------------
603 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
605 Support for single argument date: queries
607 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
609 Support for blocking opens
611 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
612 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
614 Support for named queries
616 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
617 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
618 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
625 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
626 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
627 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
628 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
630 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
632 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
637 Support for compile time options
639 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
640 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
643 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
645 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
646 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
647 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
648 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
649 scripts to ignore it.
654 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
656 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
657 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
658 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
660 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
661 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
662 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
663 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
664 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
665 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
666 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
668 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
669 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
672 Make internal address completion customizable
674 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
675 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
676 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
677 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
680 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
682 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
683 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
684 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
685 completion for the current buffer.
687 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
688 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
689 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
693 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
694 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
695 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
696 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
697 will be added instead.
699 Face customization is easier
701 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
702 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
703 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
704 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
706 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
711 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
716 Go bindings moved to contrib
718 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
720 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
722 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
723 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
725 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
727 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
728 ===========================
735 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
736 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
738 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
740 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
742 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
743 ===========================
748 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
750 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
755 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
760 Use `env` to locate perl.
765 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
767 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
769 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
771 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
773 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
774 =========================
781 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
782 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
784 Limited support for S/MIME messages
786 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
787 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
788 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
793 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
794 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
795 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
797 Command Line Interface
798 ----------------------
800 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
802 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
807 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
812 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
814 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
815 parts are now included in replies.
817 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
818 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
819 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
820 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
822 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
824 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
826 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
828 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
829 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
830 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
831 forwards only the current message.
833 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
835 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
836 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
837 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
838 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
839 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
840 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
841 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
842 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
845 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
846 longer generate empty buffers
848 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
849 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
850 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
851 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
852 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
854 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
856 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
859 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
861 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
864 Address completion improvements
866 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
867 you previously configured one, customize the variable
868 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
869 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
870 interactive address completion.
872 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
874 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
875 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
876 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
881 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
882 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
883 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
889 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
890 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
891 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
892 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
893 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
894 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
896 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
897 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
898 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
899 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
900 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
901 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
903 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
904 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
906 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
907 =========================
912 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
915 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
917 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
918 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
919 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
921 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
922 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
924 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
925 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
926 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
928 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
930 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
931 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
932 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
933 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
934 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
935 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
940 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
941 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
944 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
947 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
949 Command Line Interface
950 ----------------------
952 Database revision tracking
954 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
955 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
956 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
957 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
959 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
961 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
962 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
963 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
964 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
965 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
966 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
967 manual page for further information.
972 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
974 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
975 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
977 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
979 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
980 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
981 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
983 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
985 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
987 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
988 customization as well.
990 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
992 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
994 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
996 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
998 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
999 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1000 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1001 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1003 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1005 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1006 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1007 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1008 this variable to 10000.
1013 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1014 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1016 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1018 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1019 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1020 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1021 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1022 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1023 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1024 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1025 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1026 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1029 Database revision tracking
1031 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1032 query parser and the new function
1033 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1035 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1037 Deprecated functions
1039 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1040 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1041 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1042 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1047 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1049 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1050 ===========================
1055 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1057 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1058 ===========================
1063 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1065 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1066 =========================
1068 Command-Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1071 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1073 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1074 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1075 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1077 Path to gpg is now configurable
1079 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1080 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1085 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1087 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1092 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1097 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1102 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1104 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1105 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1107 New error logging facility
1109 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1110 output formerly printed to stderr.
1112 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1114 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1116 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1118 Fix for rounding of seconds
1123 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1125 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1126 documentation has been removed.
1128 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1130 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1131 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1136 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1137 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1138 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1143 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1144 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1145 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1146 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1147 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1148 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1151 git checkout config origin/config
1153 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1155 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1156 =========================
1161 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1162 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1163 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1164 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1165 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1166 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1167 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1169 Command-Line Interface
1170 ----------------------
1172 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1174 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1175 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1176 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1177 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1178 script callers should still check the return value.
1180 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1182 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1183 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1184 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1185 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1186 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1187 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1188 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1190 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1192 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1193 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1194 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1196 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1198 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1199 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1200 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1201 currently unmaintained.
1203 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1205 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1206 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1207 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1208 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1210 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1212 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1213 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1214 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1215 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1216 count of duplicate addresses.
1221 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1223 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1224 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1225 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1228 Improved handling of the unread tag
1230 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1231 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1232 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1233 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1234 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1235 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1236 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1238 Expanded default saved search settings
1240 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1241 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1243 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1245 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1246 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1247 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1249 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1251 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1252 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1253 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1254 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1255 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1256 the variable for details.
1261 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1263 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1264 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1265 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1266 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1268 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1270 Previously, library users were required to call
1271 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1272 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1273 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1274 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1275 too out of date for that API.
1277 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1279 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1280 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1281 atomic section will be aborted.
1283 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1284 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1286 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1288 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1289 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1290 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1291 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1292 messages into the same thread.
1297 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1298 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1299 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1300 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1301 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1302 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1307 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1308 from the config file. Use something like:
1312 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1313 "footer": "</body></html>",
1322 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1327 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1328 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1329 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1331 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1332 ===========================
1337 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1339 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1341 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1343 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1344 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1346 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1348 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1351 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1352 ===========================
1354 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1359 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1361 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1363 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1365 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1367 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1373 Use --quick when starting emacs
1375 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1377 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1379 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1381 Command-Line Interface
1382 ----------------------
1384 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1385 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1390 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1392 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1393 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1395 Fix for phrase indexing
1397 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1398 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1399 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1404 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1406 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1407 unintentionally removed.
1409 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1410 =========================
1415 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1416 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1417 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1418 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1419 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1420 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1421 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1422 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1423 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1429 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1431 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1432 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1433 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1434 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1435 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1436 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1437 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1438 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1440 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1442 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1443 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1444 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1445 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1448 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1450 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1451 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1452 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1453 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1454 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1455 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1456 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1461 Notmuch database upgrade
1463 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1464 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1465 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1466 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1467 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1468 released version of Notmuch before now.
1470 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1472 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1473 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1474 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1475 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1477 Message header parsing changes
1479 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1480 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1481 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1482 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1483 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1484 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1486 Command-Line Interface
1487 ----------------------
1489 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1491 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1493 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1495 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1497 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1499 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1500 user does not want it.
1502 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1504 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1505 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1506 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1507 support formatted output.
1509 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1511 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1512 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1513 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1521 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1522 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1523 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1524 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1525 `~/.emacs` with these.
1527 Changed format for saved searches
1529 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1530 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1531 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1532 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1535 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1536 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1537 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1538 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1540 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1541 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1542 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1544 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1545 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1546 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1547 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1548 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1550 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1552 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1553 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1554 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1556 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1558 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1559 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1560 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1561 message had been unread).
1563 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1564 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1565 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1566 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1568 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1569 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1570 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1572 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1573 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1574 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1575 to tags already present.
1579 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1580 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1581 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1582 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1583 these differ from each other.
1584 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1586 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1588 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1589 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1590 for these Emacs versions.
1592 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1594 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1595 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1597 Bug fixes for sender identities
1599 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1600 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1601 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1603 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1605 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1606 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1607 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1608 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1610 Reply pushes mark before signature
1612 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1613 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1614 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1616 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1618 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1619 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1625 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1626 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1628 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1629 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1630 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1631 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1633 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1634 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1635 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1636 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1637 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1639 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1641 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1642 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1644 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1645 =========================
1647 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1648 ---------------------------------------
1650 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1651 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1652 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1653 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1654 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1655 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1656 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1660 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1661 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1663 Command-Line Interface
1664 ----------------------
1666 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1668 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1669 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1670 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1671 print for each message.
1673 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1674 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1675 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1676 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1678 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1680 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1681 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1682 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1684 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1686 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1687 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1688 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1689 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1691 `notmuch compact` command
1693 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1694 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1695 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1696 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1697 move the compacted database into place.
1702 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1704 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1705 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1706 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1707 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1708 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1709 and multiple threads.
1711 Using `notmuch-tree`
1713 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1715 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1716 search, show and tree mode itself)
1718 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1721 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1722 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1724 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1726 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1727 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1728 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1729 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1730 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1731 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1732 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1734 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1736 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1737 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1738 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1739 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1740 thread when the search was performed.
1742 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1744 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1745 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1746 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1748 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1750 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1751 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1754 Built-in help improvements
1756 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1757 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1758 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1760 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1762 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1763 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1764 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1766 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1768 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1769 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1771 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1773 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1774 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1775 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1776 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1778 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1780 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1781 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1782 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1783 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1785 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1787 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1788 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1789 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1791 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1793 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1794 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1795 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1797 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1799 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1800 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1801 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1802 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1803 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1805 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1807 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1808 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1809 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1810 the body part of the message.
1815 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1816 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1817 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1819 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1820 =========================
1822 Command-Line Interface
1823 ----------------------
1825 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1827 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1828 folder and notmuch index.
1830 `notmuch count --batch` option
1832 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1833 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1835 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1837 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1838 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1839 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1842 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1844 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1845 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1846 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1847 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1848 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1851 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1853 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1854 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1856 Top level option to specify configuration file
1858 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1859 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1861 Bash command-line completion
1863 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1864 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1865 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1866 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1867 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1868 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1869 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1870 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1871 bash-completion package.
1873 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1878 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1880 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1881 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1882 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1883 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1884 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1885 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1886 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1887 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1889 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1891 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1892 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1893 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1895 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1897 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1898 previous thread in the search results.
1900 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1902 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1903 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1905 Faster search and show
1907 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1908 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1909 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1910 threads should show faster.
1914 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1915 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1916 in question was now removed from this release.
1921 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1922 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1927 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1929 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1930 ===========================
1935 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1937 Internal test framework changes
1938 -------------------------------
1940 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1941 being unimplemented.
1943 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1944 ===========================
1946 Internal test framework changes
1947 -------------------------------
1949 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1950 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1952 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1953 =========================
1958 Date range search support
1960 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1961 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1962 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1963 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1964 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1967 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1969 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1970 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1971 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1972 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1973 but may be removed in a future release.
1975 Command-Line Interface
1976 ----------------------
1978 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1980 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1981 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1983 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1985 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1986 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1987 officially deprecated.
1989 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1991 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1992 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1993 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1995 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1997 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1998 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2001 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2002 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2003 dump/restore format.
2005 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2007 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2008 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2009 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2011 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2013 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2014 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2015 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2017 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2019 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2020 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2021 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2022 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2027 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2029 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2030 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2031 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2032 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2034 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2036 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2037 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2038 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2039 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2040 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2041 the behavior of this, see
2042 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2043 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2045 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2046 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2047 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2049 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2051 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2052 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2055 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2057 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2058 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2059 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2060 simply displayed in place of the message.
2062 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2064 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2065 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2067 Improved text/calendar content handling
2069 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2070 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2071 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2072 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2074 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2076 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2077 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2078 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2079 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2081 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2083 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2084 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2085 for HTML email containing images.
2087 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2089 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2091 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2093 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2096 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2098 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2099 the point where it was.
2101 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2103 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2104 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2105 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2106 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2107 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2109 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2111 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2112 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2113 thread instead of the message id.
2115 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2116 -----------------------------
2118 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2119 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2120 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2121 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2122 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2123 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2124 further details and installation.
2129 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2131 Internal test framework changes
2132 -------------------------------
2134 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2136 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2137 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2138 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2139 can result in buggy behavior.
2141 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2142 =========================
2147 Maildir tag synchronization
2149 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2150 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2151 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2152 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2153 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2154 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2157 Command-Line Interface
2158 ----------------------
2160 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2161 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2162 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2163 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2164 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2170 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2172 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2174 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2175 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2176 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2178 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2180 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2181 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2182 span multiple lines.
2184 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2186 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2187 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2188 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2189 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2190 inside the result or message.
2192 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2194 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2195 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2197 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2198 user-specified formatting
2200 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2201 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2202 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2203 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2204 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2206 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2207 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2209 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2210 ===========================
2215 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2216 compilation error for this contrib package.
2218 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2219 ===========================
2224 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2226 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2227 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2228 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2229 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2231 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2232 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2235 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2236 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2237 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2238 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2241 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2243 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2246 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2247 =========================
2249 Command-Line Interface
2250 ----------------------
2254 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2255 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2256 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2257 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2259 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2260 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2261 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2262 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2266 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2267 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2269 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2270 tag in your query, for example:
2272 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2274 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2275 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2277 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2278 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2280 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2282 Raw show format changes
2284 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2285 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2286 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2287 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2288 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2289 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2290 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2291 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2293 Listing configuration items
2295 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2301 Changes to tagging interface
2303 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2304 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2305 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2306 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2307 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2308 for more information.
2310 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2311 may need to update in custom configurations.
2313 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2315 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2316 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2317 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2318 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2321 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2322 -----------------------------
2324 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2325 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2326 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2327 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2328 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2329 contrib/ from now on.
2334 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2335 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2337 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2338 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2340 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2341 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2342 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2344 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2345 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2347 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2348 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2349 returning the new database object or directory object.
2356 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2357 compatible with go 1.
2359 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2360 =========================
2362 Command-Line Interface
2363 ----------------------
2367 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2368 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2369 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2370 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2372 Mail store folder/file ignore
2374 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2375 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2376 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2378 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2379 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2381 Unified help and manual pages
2383 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2384 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2387 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2389 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2390 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2398 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2399 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2400 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2401 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2403 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2405 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2406 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2408 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2411 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2412 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2413 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2415 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2417 should be changed to:
2419 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2421 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2423 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2424 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2426 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2428 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2429 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2430 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2431 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2432 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2433 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2437 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2438 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2439 of Mailing List Archives.
2441 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2443 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2444 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2447 Show view archiving key binding changes
2449 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2450 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2451 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2452 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2453 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2456 Support text/calendar MIME type
2458 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2461 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2463 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2464 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2465 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2466 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2468 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2470 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2471 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2472 messages blue by default in the search view.
2476 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2477 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2484 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2487 Python bindings changes
2488 -----------------------
2490 Python 3.2 compatibility
2492 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2494 Added missing unicode conversions
2496 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2497 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2498 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2503 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2505 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2506 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2507 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2508 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2509 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2511 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2512 ===========================
2517 Fix error handling in python bindings
2519 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2520 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2521 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2522 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2524 Quote MML tags in replies
2526 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2527 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2528 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2529 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2530 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2531 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2532 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2533 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2535 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2536 =========================
2538 Command-Line Interface
2539 ----------------------
2543 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2544 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2545 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2546 importing new messages into the database.
2548 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2550 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2551 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2552 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2557 Automatic tag query optimization
2559 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2560 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2561 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2563 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2565 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2566 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2567 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2572 Reduction of memory leaks
2574 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2575 and fixed in this release.
2582 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2583 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2584 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2587 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2589 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2590 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2591 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2594 Improvements in saved search management
2596 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2597 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2598 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2600 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2602 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2603 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2604 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2606 New face for crypto parts headers
2608 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2609 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2610 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2613 Use space as default thousands separator
2615 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2616 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2617 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2619 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2620 buttonized id: links
2622 New function notmuch-show-advance
2624 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2625 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2626 be bound to SPC with:
2628 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2630 Various performance improvements
2635 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2636 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2639 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2640 ===========================
2645 Fix crash in python bindings
2647 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2648 for some, but not all users.
2650 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2651 ===========================
2656 Fix `--help` argument
2658 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2659 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2660 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2662 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2663 =========================
2665 New build and testing features
2666 ------------------------------
2668 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2669 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2670 prerequisites is improved.
2672 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2674 New command-line features
2675 -------------------------
2677 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2679 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2680 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2683 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2685 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2686 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2687 favour of using stdout.
2689 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2691 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2692 limit the number of results shown.
2694 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2696 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2697 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2700 New emacs UI features
2701 ---------------------
2703 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2705 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2706 starting with "tag:".
2708 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2710 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2711 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2713 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2715 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2717 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2719 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2720 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2725 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2727 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2729 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2730 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2731 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2732 requires a database rebuild:
2734 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2735 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2737 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2739 New collection of add-on tools
2740 ------------------------------
2742 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2743 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2744 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2747 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2749 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2750 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2751 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2753 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2754 ========================
2756 New, general features
2757 ---------------------
2759 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2761 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2762 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2763 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2764 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2765 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2772 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2773 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2775 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2779 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2780 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2781 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2784 Python bindings changes
2785 -----------------------
2787 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2789 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2790 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2791 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2792 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2793 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2794 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2796 Ruby bindings changes
2797 ---------------------
2799 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2800 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2801 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2802 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2807 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2809 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2810 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2812 Reply formatting cleanup
2813 ------------------------
2815 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2816 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2818 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2819 ========================
2821 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2823 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2824 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2825 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2826 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2829 Improved Build system portability
2831 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2832 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2833 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2835 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2837 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2839 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2841 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2842 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2843 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2845 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2846 ========================
2848 Vim interface improvements
2849 --------------------------
2851 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2853 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2854 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2855 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2856 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2857 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2859 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2861 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2862 * fix compose temp file name
2864 Python Bindings changes
2865 -----------------------
2867 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2869 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2870 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2872 Build-System improvements
2873 -------------------------
2875 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2877 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2880 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2881 ==========================
2886 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2888 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2889 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2891 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2892 =======================
2894 New, general features
2895 ---------------------
2897 Folder-based searching
2899 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2900 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2901 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2905 For example, one might use things such as:
2911 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2912 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2914 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2915 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2916 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2917 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2919 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2920 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2921 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2924 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2925 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2927 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2929 Support for PGP/MIME
2931 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2932 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2933 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2935 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2937 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2938 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2940 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2941 notmuch will receive these tags.
2943 New command-line features
2944 -------------------------
2946 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2948 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2949 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2951 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2953 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2954 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2955 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2957 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2959 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2960 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2961 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2962 which parts a signature part applies).
2964 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2966 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2967 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2968 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2969 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2970 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2973 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2975 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2976 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2977 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2978 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2979 by translating it internally to the new call.
2981 Performance improvements
2982 ------------------------
2984 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2986 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2987 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2988 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2990 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2991 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2993 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2995 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2996 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2997 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2999 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3000 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3001 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3002 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3004 Faster initial indexing
3006 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3007 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3008 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3010 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3012 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3013 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3014 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3015 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3017 New emacs-interface features
3018 ----------------------------
3020 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3022 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3023 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3024 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3025 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3026 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3027 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3029 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3031 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3032 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3033 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3034 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3036 User-selectable From address
3038 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3039 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3040 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3041 will prompt for the from address to use.
3043 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3044 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3045 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3047 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3048 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3049 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3052 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3054 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3055 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3057 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3059 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3061 ----- Original Message -----
3063 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3064 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3065 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3066 citations work much like conventional citations.
3068 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3070 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3071 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3072 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3073 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3074 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3076 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3077 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3079 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3081 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3082 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3083 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3085 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3087 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3088 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3089 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3090 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3091 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3093 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3095 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3098 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3100 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3102 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3104 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3107 Vim interface improvements
3108 --------------------------
3110 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3112 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3113 * Implementing archive in show view
3114 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3115 * Add delete commands
3118 Bindings improvements
3119 ---------------------
3121 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3123 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3124 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3126 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3128 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3132 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3133 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3134 `list(Messages)` works now
3135 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3137 These allow, for example:
3139 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3141 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3143 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3149 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3151 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3154 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3156 New build-system features
3157 -------------------------
3159 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3161 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3162 the configure script from some other directory:
3169 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3171 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3172 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3173 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3174 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3175 manual invocation of configure.
3177 New test-suite feature
3178 ----------------------
3180 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3182 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3183 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3184 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3185 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3186 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3189 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3191 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3192 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3193 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3194 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3195 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3196 are updated to take advantage of this.
3198 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3200 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3201 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3202 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3203 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3209 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3211 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3212 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3213 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3215 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3217 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3219 to:user@elsewhere.com
3221 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3223 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3225 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3227 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3228 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3229 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3232 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3233 from the Received headers in some cases
3235 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3236 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3238 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3240 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3242 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3244 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3245 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3246 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3248 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3249 -------------------------
3251 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3253 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3254 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3255 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3257 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3259 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3260 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3261 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3264 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3266 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3267 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3268 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3269 fixed to avoid this bug.
3271 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3273 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3274 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3276 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3277 ========================
3279 New, general features
3280 ---------------------
3282 Maildir-flag synchronization
3284 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3285 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3294 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3296 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3297 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3298 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3299 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3301 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3302 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3303 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3304 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3307 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3309 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3310 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3311 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3313 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3314 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3316 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3317 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3319 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3320 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3321 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3323 New library features
3324 --------------------
3326 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3328 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3329 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3330 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3331 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3333 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3334 message with the new function:
3336 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3338 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3339 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3340 over all available filenames for a given message.
3342 New command-line features
3343 -------------------------
3345 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3347 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3348 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3349 access to the mail store itself.
3351 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3352 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3353 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3354 name of a script containing:
3356 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3358 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3359 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3365 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3367 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3369 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3371 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3372 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3373 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3374 now produces nothing).
3376 Emacs interface improvements
3377 ----------------------------
3379 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3381 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3383 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3385 Display current thread subject in a header line
3387 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3389 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3391 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3392 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3393 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3394 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3395 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3396 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3397 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3399 Vim interface improvements
3400 --------------------------
3402 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3404 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3405 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3411 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3413 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3414 ========================
3416 New command-line features
3417 -------------------------
3419 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3421 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3422 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3423 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3425 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3426 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3427 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3428 scripts. For example:
3430 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3431 <operations-on> "$file"
3434 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3436 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3437 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3438 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3439 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3440 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3441 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3443 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3445 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3446 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3447 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3448 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3450 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3452 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3453 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3454 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3455 default rather than Bcc.
3457 New library features
3458 --------------------
3460 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3462 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3463 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3468 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3470 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3471 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3472 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3473 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3474 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3475 notmuch customize interface.
3477 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3479 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3480 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3481 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3482 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3484 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3486 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3487 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3488 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3489 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3491 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3493 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3494 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3495 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3496 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3497 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3498 notmuch customize interface.
3500 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3502 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3503 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3504 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3505 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3506 notmuch customize interface.
3508 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3510 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3511 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3512 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3513 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3516 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3518 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3519 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3520 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3523 New build-system features
3524 -------------------------
3526 Various portability fixes have been applied
3528 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3529 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3530 more portable than ever before.
3532 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3534 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3535 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3536 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3538 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3539 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3540 automatically run ldconfig.
3542 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3543 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3544 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3546 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3547 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3548 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3549 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3551 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3553 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3554 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3555 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3556 used in the resulting Makefile.
3558 New test-suite features
3559 -----------------------
3561 New modularization of test suite
3563 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3564 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3565 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3566 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3567 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3568 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3569 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3570 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3572 New testing of emacs interface
3574 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3575 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3576 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3577 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3578 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3579 database via the FCC setting.
3584 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3586 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3587 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3588 persistent error of the form:
3590 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3592 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3593 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3595 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3597 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3598 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3599 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3601 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3603 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3604 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3605 parsing the notmuch results).
3607 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3609 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3612 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3613 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3614 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3619 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3621 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3622 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3623 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3624 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3625 the emacs interface.
3627 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3629 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3630 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3631 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3633 Python-binding fixes
3634 --------------------
3636 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3638 Debian-specific fixes
3639 ---------------------
3641 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3643 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3644 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3645 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3648 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3649 ==========================
3654 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3656 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3657 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3658 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3659 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3661 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3663 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3664 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3665 want notmuch to crash.
3670 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3672 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3673 directory does not exist
3678 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3680 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3681 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3683 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3684 ========================
3686 New command-line features
3687 -------------------------
3689 User-configurable tags for new messages
3691 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3692 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3693 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3694 to specify this value.
3696 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3698 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3699 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3700 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3702 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3704 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3705 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3707 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3709 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3710 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3711 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3712 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3713 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3716 Indication of author names that match a search
3718 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3719 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3720 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3721 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3722 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3723 messages in the thread are listed first.
3725 New: Python bindings
3726 --------------------
3728 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3729 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3730 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3731 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3733 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3734 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3735 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3738 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3739 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3740 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3742 Emacs interface improvements
3743 ----------------------------
3745 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3747 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3748 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3749 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3750 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3751 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3752 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3753 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3754 but without any of the disadvantages).
3756 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3757 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3758 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3761 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3762 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3763 instead running something like:
3765 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3767 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3768 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3769 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3772 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3774 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3775 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3776 tweaked by the user.
3778 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3779 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3780 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3783 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3784 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3785 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3788 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3790 This support currently relies on an external program,
3791 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3792 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3793 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3794 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3795 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3798 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3799 notmuch) is available via:
3801 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3803 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3804 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3805 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3807 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3809 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3810 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3811 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3812 making this automatic in a future release.
3814 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3816 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3817 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3818 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3819 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3820 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3821 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3824 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3826 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3827 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3828 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3830 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3832 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3833 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3834 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3836 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3837 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3838 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3839 other representation.
3841 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3842 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3845 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3847 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3848 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3849 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3851 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3852 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3853 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3855 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3857 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3858 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3859 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3860 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3861 to display the search result.
3863 More flexible handling of header visibility
3865 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3866 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3867 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3868 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3869 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3870 with the 'h' keybinding.
3872 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3873 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3874 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3876 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3878 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3880 Customizable formatting of search results
3882 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3883 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3884 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3886 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3888 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3890 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3895 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3897 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3898 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3899 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3900 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3906 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3908 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3909 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3911 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3913 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3914 accept are now all accepted.
3919 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3921 Better display of output from failed tests
3923 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3924 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3926 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3927 ========================
3929 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3930 detailed release notes this time!
3932 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3933 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3935 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3936 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3937 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3938 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3945 Better guessing of From: header
3947 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3948 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3949 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3950 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3951 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3954 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3956 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3957 guaranteed to match all messages.
3959 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3961 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3962 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3963 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3964 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3965 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3968 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3971 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3972 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3973 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3974 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3979 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3981 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3982 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3983 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3984 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3986 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3988 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3990 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3991 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3992 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3994 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3996 Previously, the user might see:
3998 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4002 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4004 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4005 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4006 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4007 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4009 Emacs client features
4010 ---------------------
4012 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4014 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4015 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4016 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4017 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4018 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4020 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4023 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4024 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4025 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4026 search with the '*' binding.
4028 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4030 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4031 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4034 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4036 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4037 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4038 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4040 Build-system features
4041 ---------------------
4043 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4045 Add support to configure for many standard options
4047 We include actual support for:
4049 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4051 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4053 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4054 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4056 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4057 separate "make install-emacs"
4059 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4061 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4062 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4063 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4065 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4068 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4069 ========================
4071 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4073 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4074 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4076 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4077 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4078 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4079 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4080 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4081 tags from messages in a thread.
4088 indent-tabs-mode: nil