1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
18 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
19 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
20 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
21 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
22 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
23 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
28 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
29 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
32 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
35 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
37 Command Line Interface
38 ----------------------
40 Database revision tracking
42 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
43 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
44 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
45 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
50 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
52 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
53 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
55 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
57 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
58 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
59 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
64 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
65 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
67 Database revision tracking
69 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
70 query parser and the new function
71 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
73 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
74 ===========================
79 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
81 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
82 ===========================
87 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
89 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
90 =========================
92 Command-Line Interface
93 ----------------------
95 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
97 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
98 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
99 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
101 Path to gpg is now configurable
103 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
104 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
109 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
111 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
116 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
121 Support messages without Message-IDs.
126 Undeprecate single message mboxes
128 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
129 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
131 New error logging facility
133 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
134 output formerly printed to stderr.
136 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
138 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
140 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
142 Fix for rounding of seconds
147 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
149 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
150 docmumentation has been removed.
152 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
154 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
155 some material from the relicensed wiki.
160 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
161 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
162 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
167 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
168 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
169 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
170 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
171 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
172 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
175 git checkout config origin/config
177 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
179 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
180 =========================
185 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
186 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
187 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
188 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
189 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
190 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
191 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
193 Command-Line Interface
194 ----------------------
196 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
198 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
199 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
200 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
201 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
202 script callers should still check the return value.
204 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
206 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
207 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
208 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
209 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
210 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
211 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
212 and returning success even if indexing fails).
214 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
216 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
217 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
218 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
220 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
222 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
223 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
224 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
225 currently unmaintained.
227 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
229 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
230 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
231 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
232 have at least `N` files associated with them.
234 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
236 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
237 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
238 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
239 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
240 count of duplicate addresses.
245 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
247 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
248 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
249 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
252 Improved handling of the unread tag
254 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
255 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
256 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
257 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
258 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
259 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
260 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
262 Expanded default saved search settings
264 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
265 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
267 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
269 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
270 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
271 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
273 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
275 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
276 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
277 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
278 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
279 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
280 the variable for details.
285 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
287 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
288 Representing these independently of the database version number will
289 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
290 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
292 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
294 Previously, library users were required to call
295 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
296 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
297 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
298 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
299 too out of date for that API.
301 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
303 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
304 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
305 atomic section will be aborted.
307 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
308 `notmuch_database_destroy`
310 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
312 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
313 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
314 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
315 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
316 messages into the same thread.
321 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
322 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
323 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
324 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
325 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
326 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
331 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
332 from the config file. Use something like:
336 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
337 "footer": "</body></html>",
346 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
351 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
352 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
353 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
355 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
356 ===========================
361 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
363 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
365 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
367 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
368 structure for signatures changed slightly.
370 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
372 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
375 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
376 ===========================
378 This is a bug fix and portability release.
383 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
385 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
387 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
389 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
391 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
397 Use --quick when starting emacs
399 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
401 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
403 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
405 Command-Line Interface
406 ----------------------
408 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
409 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
414 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
416 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
417 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
419 Fix for phrase indexing
421 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
422 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
423 will affect only newly indexed messages.
428 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
430 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
431 unintentionally removed.
433 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
434 =========================
439 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
440 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
441 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
442 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
443 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
444 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
445 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
446 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
447 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
453 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
455 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
456 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
457 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
458 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
459 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
460 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
461 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
462 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
464 There is a new `path:` search prefix
466 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
467 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
468 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
469 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
472 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
474 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
475 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
476 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
477 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
478 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
479 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
480 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
485 Notmuch database upgrade
487 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
488 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
489 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
490 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
491 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
492 released version of Notmuch before now.
494 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
496 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
497 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
498 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
499 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
501 Message header parsing changes
503 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
504 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
505 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
506 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
507 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
508 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
510 Command-Line Interface
511 ----------------------
513 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
515 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
517 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
519 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
521 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
523 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
524 user does not want it.
526 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
528 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
529 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
530 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
531 support formatted output.
533 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
535 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
536 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
537 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
545 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
546 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
547 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
548 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
549 `~/.emacs` with these.
551 Changed format for saved searches
553 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
554 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
555 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
556 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
559 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
560 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
561 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
562 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
564 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
565 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
566 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
568 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
569 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
570 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
571 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
572 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
574 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
576 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
577 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
578 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
580 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
582 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
583 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
584 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
585 message had been unread).
587 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
588 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
589 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
590 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
592 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
593 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
594 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
596 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
597 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
598 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
599 to tags already present.
603 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
604 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
605 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
606 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
607 these differ from each other.
608 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
610 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
612 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
613 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
614 for these Emacs versions.
616 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
618 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
619 newlines before calling notmuch count.
621 Bug fixes for sender identities
623 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
624 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
625 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
627 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
629 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
630 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
631 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
632 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
634 Reply pushes mark before signature
636 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
637 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
638 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
640 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
642 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
643 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
649 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
650 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
652 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
653 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
654 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
655 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
657 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
658 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
659 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
660 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
661 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
663 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
665 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
666 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
668 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
669 =========================
671 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
672 ---------------------------------------
674 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
675 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
676 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
677 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
678 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
679 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
680 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
684 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
685 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
687 Command-Line Interface
688 ----------------------
690 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
692 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
693 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
694 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
695 print for each message.
697 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
698 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
699 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
700 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
702 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
704 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
705 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
706 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
708 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
710 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
711 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
712 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
713 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
715 `notmuch compact` command
717 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
718 functionality through a more convenient interface than
719 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
720 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
721 move the compacted database into place.
726 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
728 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
729 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
730 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
731 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
732 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
733 and multiple threads.
737 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
739 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
740 search, show and tree mode itself)
742 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
745 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
746 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
748 Customising `notmuch-tree`
750 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
751 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
752 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
753 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
754 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
755 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
756 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
758 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
760 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
761 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
762 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
763 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
764 thread when the search was performed.
766 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
768 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
769 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
770 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
772 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
774 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
775 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
778 Built-in help improvements
780 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
781 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
782 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
784 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
786 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
787 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
788 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
790 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
792 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
793 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
795 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
797 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
798 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
799 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
800 to move some of them to the common keymap.
802 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
804 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
805 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
806 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
807 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
809 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
811 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
812 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
813 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
815 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
817 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
818 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
819 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
821 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
823 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
824 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
825 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
826 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
827 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
829 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
831 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
832 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
833 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
834 the body part of the message.
839 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
840 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
841 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
843 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
844 =========================
846 Command-Line Interface
847 ----------------------
849 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
851 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
852 folder and notmuch index.
854 `notmuch count --batch` option
856 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
857 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
859 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
861 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
862 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
863 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
866 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
868 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
869 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
870 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
871 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
872 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
875 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
877 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
878 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
880 Top level option to specify configuration file
882 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
883 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
885 Bash command-line completion
887 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
888 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
889 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
890 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
891 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
892 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
893 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
894 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
895 bash-completion package.
897 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
902 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
904 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
905 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
906 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
907 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
908 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
909 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
910 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
911 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
913 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
915 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
916 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
917 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
919 Key bindings for next/previous thread
921 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
922 previous thread in the search results.
924 Better handling of errors in search buffers
926 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
927 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
929 Faster search and show
931 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
932 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
933 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
934 threads should show faster.
938 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
939 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
940 in question was now removed from this release.
945 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
946 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
951 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
953 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
954 ===========================
959 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
961 Internal test framework changes
962 -------------------------------
964 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
967 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
968 ===========================
970 Internal test framework changes
971 -------------------------------
973 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
974 build failures in non-interactive environments.
976 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
977 =========================
982 Date range search support
984 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
985 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
986 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
987 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
988 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
991 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
993 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
994 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
995 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
996 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
997 but may be removed in a future release.
999 Command-Line Interface
1000 ----------------------
1002 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1004 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1005 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1007 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1009 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1010 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1011 officially deprecated.
1013 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1015 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1016 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1017 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1019 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1021 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1022 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1025 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1026 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1027 dump/restore format.
1029 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1031 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1032 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1033 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1035 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1037 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1038 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1039 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1041 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1043 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1044 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1045 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1046 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1051 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1053 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1054 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1055 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1056 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1058 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1060 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1061 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1062 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1063 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1064 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1065 the behavior of this, see
1066 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1067 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1069 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1070 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1071 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1073 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1075 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1076 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1079 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1081 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1082 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1083 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1084 simply displayed in place of the message.
1086 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1088 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1089 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1091 Improved text/calendar content handling
1093 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1094 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1095 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1096 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1098 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1100 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1101 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1102 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1103 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1105 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1107 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1108 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1109 for HTML email containing images.
1111 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1113 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1115 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1117 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1120 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1122 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1123 the point where it was.
1125 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1127 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1128 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1129 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1130 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1131 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1133 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1135 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1136 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1137 thread instead of the message id.
1139 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1140 -----------------------------
1142 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1143 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1144 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1145 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1146 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1147 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1148 further details and installation.
1153 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1155 Internal test framework changes
1156 -------------------------------
1158 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1160 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1161 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1162 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1163 can result in buggy behavior.
1165 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1166 =========================
1171 Maildir tag synchronization
1173 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1174 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1175 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1176 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1177 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1178 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1181 Command-Line Interface
1182 ----------------------
1184 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1185 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1186 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1187 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1188 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1194 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1196 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1198 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1199 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1200 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1202 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1204 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1205 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1206 span multiple lines.
1208 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1210 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1211 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1212 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1213 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1214 inside the result or message.
1216 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1218 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1219 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1221 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1222 user-specified formatting
1224 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1225 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1226 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1227 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1228 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1230 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1231 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1233 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1234 ===========================
1239 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1240 compilation error for this contrib package.
1242 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1243 ===========================
1248 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1250 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1251 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1252 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1253 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1255 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1256 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1259 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1260 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1261 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1262 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1265 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1267 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1270 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1271 =========================
1273 Command-Line Interface
1274 ----------------------
1278 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1279 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1280 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1281 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1283 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1284 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1285 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1286 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1290 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1291 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1293 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1294 tag in your query, for example:
1296 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1298 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1299 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1301 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1302 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1304 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1306 Raw show format changes
1308 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1309 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1310 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1311 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1312 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1313 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1314 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1315 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1317 Listing configuration items
1319 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1325 Changes to tagging interface
1327 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1328 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1329 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1330 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1331 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1332 for more information.
1334 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1335 may need to update in custom configurations.
1337 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1339 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1340 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1341 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1342 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1345 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1346 -----------------------------
1348 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1349 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1350 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1351 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1352 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1353 contrib/ from now on.
1358 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1359 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1361 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1362 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1364 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1365 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1366 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1368 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1369 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1371 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1372 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1373 returning the new database object or directory object.
1380 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1381 compatible with go 1.
1383 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1384 =========================
1386 Command-Line Interface
1387 ----------------------
1391 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1392 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1393 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1394 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1396 Mail store folder/file ignore
1398 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1399 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1400 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1402 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1403 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1405 Unified help and manual pages
1407 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1408 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1411 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1413 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1414 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1422 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1423 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1424 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1425 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1427 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1429 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1430 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1432 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1435 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1436 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1437 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1439 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1441 should be changed to:
1443 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1445 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1447 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1448 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1450 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1452 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1453 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1454 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1455 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1456 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1457 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1461 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1462 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1463 of Mailing List Archives.
1465 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1467 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1468 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1471 Show view archiving key binding changes
1473 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1474 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1475 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1476 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1477 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1480 Support text/calendar MIME type
1482 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1485 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1487 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1488 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1489 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1490 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1492 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1494 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1495 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1496 messages blue by default in the search view.
1500 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1501 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1508 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1511 Python bindings changes
1512 -----------------------
1514 Python 3.2 compatibility
1516 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1518 Added missing unicode conversions
1520 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1521 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1522 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1527 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1529 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1530 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1531 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1532 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1533 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1535 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1536 ===========================
1541 Fix error handling in python bindings
1543 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1544 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1545 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1546 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1548 Quote MML tags in replies
1550 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1551 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1552 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1553 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1554 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1555 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1556 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1557 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1559 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1560 =========================
1562 Command-Line Interface
1563 ----------------------
1567 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1568 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1569 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1570 importing new messages into the database.
1572 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1574 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1575 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1576 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1581 Automatic tag query optimization
1583 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1584 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1585 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1587 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1589 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1590 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1591 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1596 Reduction of memory leaks
1598 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1599 and fixed in this release.
1606 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1607 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1608 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1611 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1613 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1614 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1615 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1618 Improvements in saved search management
1620 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1621 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1622 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1624 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1626 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1627 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1628 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1630 New face for crypto parts headers
1632 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1633 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1634 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1637 Use space as default thousands separator
1639 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1640 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1641 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1643 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1644 buttonized id: links
1646 New function notmuch-show-advance
1648 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1649 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1650 be bound to SPC with:
1652 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1654 Various performance improvements
1659 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1660 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1663 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1664 ===========================
1669 Fix crash in python bindings
1671 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1672 for some, but not all users.
1674 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1675 ===========================
1680 Fix `--help` argument
1682 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1683 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1684 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1686 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1687 =========================
1689 New build and testing features
1690 ------------------------------
1692 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1693 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1694 prerequisites is improved.
1696 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1698 New command-line features
1699 -------------------------
1701 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1703 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1704 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1707 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1709 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1710 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1711 favour of using stdout.
1713 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1715 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1716 limit the number of results shown.
1718 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1720 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1721 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1724 New emacs UI features
1725 ---------------------
1727 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1729 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1730 starting with "tag:".
1732 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1734 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1735 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1737 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1739 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1741 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1743 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1744 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1749 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1751 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1753 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1754 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1755 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1756 requires a database rebuild:
1758 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1759 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1761 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1763 New collection of add-on tools
1764 ------------------------------
1766 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1767 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1768 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1771 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1773 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1774 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1775 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1777 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1778 ========================
1780 New, general features
1781 ---------------------
1783 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1785 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1786 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1787 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1788 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1789 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1796 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1797 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1799 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1803 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1804 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1805 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1808 Python bindings changes
1809 -----------------------
1811 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1813 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1814 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1815 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1816 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1817 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1818 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1820 Ruby bindings changes
1821 ---------------------
1823 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1824 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1825 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1826 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1831 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1833 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1834 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1836 Reply formatting cleanup
1837 ------------------------
1839 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1840 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1842 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1843 ========================
1845 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1847 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1848 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1849 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1850 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1853 Improved Build system portability
1855 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1856 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1857 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1859 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1861 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1863 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1865 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1866 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1867 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1869 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1870 ========================
1872 Vim interface improvements
1873 --------------------------
1875 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1877 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1878 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1879 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1880 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1881 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1883 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1885 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1886 * fix compose temp file name
1888 Python Bindings changes
1889 -----------------------
1891 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1893 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1894 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1896 Build-System improvements
1897 -------------------------
1899 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1901 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1904 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1905 ==========================
1910 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1912 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1913 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1915 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1916 =======================
1918 New, general features
1919 ---------------------
1921 Folder-based searching
1923 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1924 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1925 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1929 For example, one might use things such as:
1935 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1936 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1938 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1939 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1940 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1941 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1943 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1944 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1945 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1948 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1949 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1951 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1953 Support for PGP/MIME
1955 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1956 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1957 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1959 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1961 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1962 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1964 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1965 notmuch will receive these tags.
1967 New command-line features
1968 -------------------------
1970 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1972 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1973 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1975 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1977 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1978 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1979 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1981 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1983 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1984 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1985 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1986 which parts a signature part applies).
1988 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1990 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1991 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1992 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1993 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1994 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1997 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1999 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2000 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2001 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2002 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2003 by translating it internally to the new call.
2005 Performance improvements
2006 ------------------------
2008 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2010 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2011 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2012 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2014 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2015 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2017 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2019 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2020 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2021 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2023 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2024 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2025 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2026 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2028 Faster initial indexing
2030 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2031 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2032 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2034 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2036 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2037 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2038 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2039 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2041 New emacs-interface features
2042 ----------------------------
2044 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2046 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2047 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2048 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2049 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2050 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2051 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2053 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2055 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2056 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2057 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2058 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2060 User-selectable From address
2062 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2063 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2064 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2065 will prompt for the from address to use.
2067 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2068 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2069 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2071 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2072 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2073 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2076 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2078 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2079 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2081 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2083 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2085 ----- Original Message -----
2087 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2088 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2089 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2090 citations work much like conventional citations.
2092 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2094 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2095 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2096 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2097 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2098 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2100 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2101 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2103 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2105 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2106 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2107 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2109 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2111 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2112 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2113 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2114 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2115 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2117 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2119 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2122 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2124 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2126 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2128 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2131 Vim interface improvements
2132 --------------------------
2134 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2136 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2137 * Implementing archive in show view
2138 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2139 * Add delete commands
2142 Bindings improvements
2143 ---------------------
2145 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2147 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2148 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2150 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2152 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2156 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2157 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2158 `list(Messages)` works now
2159 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2161 These allow, for example:
2163 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2165 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2167 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2173 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2175 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2178 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2180 New build-system features
2181 -------------------------
2183 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2185 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2186 the configure script from some other directory:
2193 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2195 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2196 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2197 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2198 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2199 manual invocation of configure.
2201 New test-suite feature
2202 ----------------------
2204 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2206 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2207 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2208 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2209 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2210 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2213 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2215 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2216 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2217 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2218 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2219 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2220 are updated to take advantage of this.
2222 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2224 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2225 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2226 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2227 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2233 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2235 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2236 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2237 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2239 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2241 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2243 to:user@elsewhere.com
2245 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2247 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2249 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2251 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2252 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2253 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2256 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2257 from the Received headers in some cases
2259 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2260 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2262 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2264 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2266 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2268 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2269 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2270 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2272 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2273 -------------------------
2275 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2277 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2278 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2279 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2281 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2283 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2284 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2285 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2288 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2290 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2291 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2292 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2293 fixed to avoid this bug.
2295 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2297 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2298 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2300 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2301 ========================
2303 New, general features
2304 ---------------------
2306 Maildir-flag synchronization
2308 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2309 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2318 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2320 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2321 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2322 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2323 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2325 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2326 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2327 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2328 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2331 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2333 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2334 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2335 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2337 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2338 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2340 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2341 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2343 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2344 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2345 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2347 New library features
2348 --------------------
2350 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2352 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2353 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2354 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2355 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2357 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2358 message with the new function:
2360 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2362 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2363 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2364 over all available filenames for a given message.
2366 New command-line features
2367 -------------------------
2369 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2371 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2372 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2373 access to the mail store itself.
2375 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2376 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2377 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2378 name of a script containing:
2380 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2382 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2383 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2389 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2391 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2393 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2395 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2396 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2397 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2398 now produces nothing).
2400 Emacs interface improvements
2401 ----------------------------
2403 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2405 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2407 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2409 Display current thread subject in a header line
2411 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2413 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2415 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2416 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2417 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2418 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2419 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2420 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2421 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2423 Vim interface improvements
2424 --------------------------
2426 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2428 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2429 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2435 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2437 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2438 ========================
2440 New command-line features
2441 -------------------------
2443 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2445 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2446 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2447 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2449 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2450 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2451 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2452 scripts. For example:
2454 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2455 <operations-on> "$file"
2458 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2460 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2461 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2462 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2463 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2464 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2465 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2467 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2469 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2470 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2471 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2472 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2474 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2476 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2477 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2478 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2479 default rather than Bcc.
2481 New library features
2482 --------------------
2484 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2486 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2487 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2492 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2494 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2495 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2496 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2497 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2498 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2499 notmuch customize interface.
2501 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2503 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2504 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2505 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2506 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2508 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2510 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2511 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2512 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2513 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2515 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2517 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2518 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2519 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2520 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2521 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2522 notmuch customize interface.
2524 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2526 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2527 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2528 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2529 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2530 notmuch customize interface.
2532 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2534 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2535 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2536 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2537 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2540 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2542 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2543 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2544 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2547 New build-system features
2548 -------------------------
2550 Various portability fixes have been applied
2552 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2553 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2554 more portable than ever before.
2556 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2558 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2559 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2560 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2562 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2563 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2564 automatically run ldconfig.
2566 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2567 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2568 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2570 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2571 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2572 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2573 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2575 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2577 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2578 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2579 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2580 used in the resulting Makefile.
2582 New test-suite features
2583 -----------------------
2585 New modularization of test suite
2587 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2588 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2589 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2590 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2591 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2592 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2593 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2594 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2596 New testing of emacs interface
2598 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2599 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2600 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2601 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2602 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2603 database via the FCC setting.
2608 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2610 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2611 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2612 persistent error of the form:
2614 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2616 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2617 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2619 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2621 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2622 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2623 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2625 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2627 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2628 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2629 parsing the notmuch results).
2631 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2633 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2636 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2637 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2638 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2643 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2645 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2646 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2647 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2648 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2649 the emacs interface.
2651 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2653 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2654 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2655 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2657 Python-binding fixes
2658 --------------------
2660 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2662 Debian-specific fixes
2663 ---------------------
2665 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2667 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2668 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2669 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2672 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2673 ==========================
2678 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2680 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2681 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2682 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2683 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2685 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2687 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2688 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2689 want notmuch to crash.
2694 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2696 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2697 directory does not exist
2702 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2704 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2705 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2707 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2708 ========================
2710 New command-line features
2711 -------------------------
2713 User-configurable tags for new messages
2715 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2716 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2717 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2718 to specify this value.
2720 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2722 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2723 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2724 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2726 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2728 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2729 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2731 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2733 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2734 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2735 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2736 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2737 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2740 Indication of author names that match a search
2742 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2743 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2744 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2745 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2746 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2747 messages in the thread are listed first.
2749 New: Python bindings
2750 --------------------
2752 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2753 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2754 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2755 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2757 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2758 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2759 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2762 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2763 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2764 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2766 Emacs interface improvements
2767 ----------------------------
2769 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2771 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2772 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2773 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2774 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2775 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2776 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2777 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2778 but without any of the disadvantages).
2780 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2781 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2782 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2785 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2786 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2787 instead running something like:
2789 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2791 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2792 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2793 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2796 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2798 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2799 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2800 tweaked by the user.
2802 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2803 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2804 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2807 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2808 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2809 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2812 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2814 This support currently relies on an external program,
2815 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2816 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2817 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2818 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2819 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2822 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2823 notmuch) is available via:
2825 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2827 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2828 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2829 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2831 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2833 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2834 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2835 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2836 making this automatic in a future release.
2838 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2840 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2841 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2842 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2843 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2844 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2845 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2848 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2850 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2851 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2852 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2854 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2856 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2857 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2858 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2860 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2861 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2862 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2863 other representation.
2865 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2866 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2869 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2871 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2872 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2873 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2875 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2876 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2877 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2879 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2881 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2882 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2883 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2884 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2885 to display the search result.
2887 More flexible handling of header visibility
2889 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2890 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2891 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2892 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2893 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2894 with the 'h' keybinding.
2896 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2897 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2898 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2900 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2902 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2904 Customizable formatting of search results
2906 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2907 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2908 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2910 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2912 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2914 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2919 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2921 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2922 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2923 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2924 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2930 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2932 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2933 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2935 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2937 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2938 accept are now all accepted.
2943 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2945 Better display of output from failed tests
2947 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2948 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2950 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2951 ========================
2953 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2954 detailed release notes this time!
2956 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2957 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2959 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2960 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2961 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2962 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2969 Better guessing of From: header
2971 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2972 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2973 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2974 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2975 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2978 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2980 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2981 guaranteed to match all messages.
2983 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2985 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2986 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2987 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2988 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2989 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2992 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2995 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2996 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2997 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2998 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3003 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3005 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3006 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3007 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3008 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3010 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3012 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3014 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3015 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3016 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3018 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3020 Previously, the user might see:
3022 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3026 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3028 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3029 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3030 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3031 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3033 Emacs client features
3034 ---------------------
3036 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3038 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3039 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3040 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3041 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3042 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3044 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3047 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3048 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3049 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3050 search with the '*' binding.
3052 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3054 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3055 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3058 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3060 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3061 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3062 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3064 Build-system features
3065 ---------------------
3067 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3069 Add support to configure for many standard options
3071 We include actual support for:
3073 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3075 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3077 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3078 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3080 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3081 separate "make install-emacs"
3083 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3085 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3086 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3087 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3089 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3092 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3093 ========================
3095 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3097 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3098 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3100 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3101 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3102 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3103 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3104 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3105 tags from messages in a thread.
3112 indent-tabs-mode: nil