1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
17 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
19 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
20 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
21 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
22 on a per-message basis with the --decrypt argument to indexing
23 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
24 config set index.decrypt true".
26 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
27 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
28 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
29 this feature without considering the security of your index.
31 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
32 ===========================
37 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
38 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
41 Command Line Interface
42 ----------------------
44 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
45 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
48 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
49 ===========================
51 Command Line Interface
52 ----------------------
54 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
55 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
60 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
63 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
64 ===========================
69 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
72 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
73 =========================
78 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
80 Skip HTML tags when indexing
82 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
84 Command Line Interface
85 ----------------------
87 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
89 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
94 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
96 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
97 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
100 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
105 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
107 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
108 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
110 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
112 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
113 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
116 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
118 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
120 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
122 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
123 ===========================
125 Command Line Interface
126 ----------------------
128 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
133 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
135 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
136 ===========================
141 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
143 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
144 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
147 Command Line Interface
148 ----------------------
150 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
152 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
154 Fix bug in dump header
156 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
157 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
158 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
163 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
165 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
166 =========================
171 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
173 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
176 Command Line Interface
177 ----------------------
179 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
181 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
182 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
183 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
185 New default output format to 3
187 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
188 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
189 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
190 default format changes.
195 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
197 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
198 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
199 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
200 or tree view to resume.
202 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
203 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
204 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
207 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
208 they were when you postponed in the final message.
212 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
213 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
214 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
215 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
216 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
220 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
221 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
222 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
223 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
224 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
225 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
229 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
230 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
232 Stop display of `application/*` parts
234 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
235 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
236 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
237 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
238 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
239 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
240 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
241 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
244 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
246 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
247 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
248 only tagged the current thread.)
250 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
252 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
253 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
254 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
256 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
258 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
259 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
260 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
261 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
262 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
263 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
264 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
266 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
268 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
269 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
270 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
275 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
277 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
280 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
282 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
285 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
286 ===========================
291 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
293 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
294 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
295 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
298 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
299 ===========================
301 Command Line Interface
302 ----------------------
304 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
309 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
311 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
312 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
313 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
315 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
316 ===========================
321 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
322 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
324 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
325 ===========================
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
332 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
333 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
334 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
339 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
341 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
342 ===========================
344 Command Line Interface
345 ----------------------
347 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
352 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
354 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
355 ===========================
360 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
362 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
363 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
364 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
366 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
368 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
370 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
371 ===========================
376 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
378 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
383 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
385 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
386 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
387 the original colours.
389 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
390 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
392 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
394 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
395 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
396 bug, and hence the test.
398 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
399 =========================
401 General (Xapian 1.4+)
402 ---------------------
404 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
406 Support for single argument date: queries
408 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
410 Support for blocking opens
412 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
413 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
415 Support for named queries
417 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
418 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
419 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
426 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
427 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
428 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
429 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
431 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
433 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
438 Support for compile time options
440 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
441 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
444 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
446 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
447 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
448 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
449 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
450 scripts to ignore it.
455 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
457 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
458 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
459 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
461 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
462 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
463 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
464 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
465 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
466 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
467 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
469 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
470 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
473 Make internal address completion customizable
475 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
476 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
477 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
478 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
481 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
483 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
484 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
485 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
486 completion for the current buffer.
488 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
489 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
490 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
494 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
495 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
496 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
497 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
498 will be added instead.
500 Face customization is easier
502 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
503 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
504 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
505 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
507 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
512 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
517 Go bindings moved to contrib
519 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
521 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
523 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
524 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
526 The same issue occured with sort modes.
528 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
529 ===========================
536 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
537 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
539 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
541 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
543 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
544 ===========================
549 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
551 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
556 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
561 Use `env` to locate perl.
566 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
568 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
570 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
572 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
574 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
575 =========================
582 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
583 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
585 Limited support for S/MIME messages
587 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
588 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
589 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
594 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
595 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
596 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
598 Command Line Interface
599 ----------------------
601 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
603 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
608 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
613 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
615 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
616 parts are now included in replies.
618 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
619 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
620 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
621 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
623 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
625 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
627 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
629 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
630 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
631 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
632 forwards only the current message.
634 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
636 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
637 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
638 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
639 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
640 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
641 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
642 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
643 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
646 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
647 longer generate empty buffers
649 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
650 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
651 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
652 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
653 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
655 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
657 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
660 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
662 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
665 Address completion improvements
667 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
668 you previously configured one, customize the variable
669 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
670 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
671 interactive address completion.
673 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
675 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
676 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
677 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
682 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
683 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
684 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
690 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
691 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
692 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
693 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
694 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
695 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
697 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
698 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
699 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
700 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
701 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
702 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
704 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
705 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
707 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
708 =========================
713 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
716 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
718 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
719 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
720 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
722 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
723 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
725 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
726 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
727 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
729 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
731 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
732 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
733 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
734 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
735 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
736 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
741 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
742 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
745 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
748 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
750 Command Line Interface
751 ----------------------
753 Database revision tracking
755 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
756 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
757 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
758 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
760 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
762 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
763 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
764 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
765 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
766 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
767 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
768 manual page for further information.
773 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
775 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
776 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
778 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
780 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
781 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
782 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
784 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
786 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
788 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
789 customization as well.
791 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
793 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
795 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
797 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
799 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
800 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
801 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
802 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
804 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
806 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
807 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
808 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
809 this variable to 10000.
814 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
815 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
817 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
819 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
820 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
821 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
822 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
823 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
824 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
825 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
826 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
827 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
830 Database revision tracking
832 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
833 query parser and the new function
834 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
836 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
840 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
841 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
842 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
843 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
848 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
850 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
851 ===========================
856 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
858 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
859 ===========================
864 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
866 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
867 =========================
869 Command-Line Interface
870 ----------------------
872 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
874 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
875 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
876 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
878 Path to gpg is now configurable
880 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
881 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
886 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
888 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
893 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
898 Support messages without Message-IDs.
903 Undeprecate single message mboxes
905 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
906 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
908 New error logging facility
910 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
911 output formerly printed to stderr.
913 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
915 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
917 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
919 Fix for rounding of seconds
924 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
926 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
927 docmumentation has been removed.
929 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
931 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
932 some material from the relicensed wiki.
937 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
938 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
939 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
944 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
945 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
946 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
947 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
948 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
949 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
952 git checkout config origin/config
954 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
956 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
957 =========================
962 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
963 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
964 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
965 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
966 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
967 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
968 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
970 Command-Line Interface
971 ----------------------
973 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
975 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
976 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
977 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
978 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
979 script callers should still check the return value.
981 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
983 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
984 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
985 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
986 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
987 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
988 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
989 and returning success even if indexing fails).
991 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
993 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
994 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
995 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
997 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
999 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1000 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1001 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1002 currently unmaintained.
1004 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1006 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1007 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1008 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1009 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1011 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1013 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1014 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1015 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1016 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1017 count of duplicate addresses.
1022 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1024 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1025 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1026 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1029 Improved handling of the unread tag
1031 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1032 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1033 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1034 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1035 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1036 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1037 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1039 Expanded default saved search settings
1041 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1042 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1044 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1046 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1047 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1048 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1050 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1052 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1053 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1054 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1055 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1056 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1057 the variable for details.
1062 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1064 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1065 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1066 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1067 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1069 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1071 Previously, library users were required to call
1072 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1073 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1074 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1075 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1076 too out of date for that API.
1078 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1080 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1081 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1082 atomic section will be aborted.
1084 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1085 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1087 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1089 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1090 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1091 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1092 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1093 messages into the same thread.
1098 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1099 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1100 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1101 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1102 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1103 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1108 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1109 from the config file. Use something like:
1113 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1114 "footer": "</body></html>",
1123 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1128 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1129 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1130 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1132 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1133 ===========================
1138 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1140 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1142 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1144 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1145 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1147 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1149 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1152 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1153 ===========================
1155 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1160 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1162 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1164 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1166 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1168 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1174 Use --quick when starting emacs
1176 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1178 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1180 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1182 Command-Line Interface
1183 ----------------------
1185 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1186 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1191 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1193 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1194 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1196 Fix for phrase indexing
1198 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1199 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1200 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1205 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1207 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1208 unintentionally removed.
1210 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1211 =========================
1216 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1217 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1218 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1219 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1220 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1221 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1222 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1223 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1224 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1230 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1232 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1233 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1234 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1235 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1236 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1237 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1238 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1239 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1241 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1243 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1244 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1245 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1246 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1249 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1251 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1252 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1253 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1254 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1255 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1256 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1257 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1262 Notmuch database upgrade
1264 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1265 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1266 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1267 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1268 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1269 released version of Notmuch before now.
1271 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1273 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1274 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1275 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1276 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1278 Message header parsing changes
1280 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1281 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1282 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1283 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1284 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1285 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1287 Command-Line Interface
1288 ----------------------
1290 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1292 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1294 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1296 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1298 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1300 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1301 user does not want it.
1303 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1305 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1306 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1307 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1308 support formatted output.
1310 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1312 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1313 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1314 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1322 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1323 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1324 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1325 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1326 `~/.emacs` with these.
1328 Changed format for saved searches
1330 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1331 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1332 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1333 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1336 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1337 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1338 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1339 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1341 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1342 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1343 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1345 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1346 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1347 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1348 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1349 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1351 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1353 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1354 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1355 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1357 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1359 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1360 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1361 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1362 message had been unread).
1364 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1365 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1366 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1367 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1369 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1370 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1371 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1373 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1374 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1375 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1376 to tags already present.
1380 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1381 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1382 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1383 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1384 these differ from each other.
1385 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1387 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1389 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1390 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1391 for these Emacs versions.
1393 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1395 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1396 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1398 Bug fixes for sender identities
1400 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1401 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1402 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1404 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1406 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1407 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1408 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1409 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1411 Reply pushes mark before signature
1413 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1414 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1415 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1417 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1419 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1420 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1426 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1427 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1429 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1430 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1431 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1432 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1434 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1435 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1436 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1437 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1438 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1440 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1442 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1443 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1445 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1446 =========================
1448 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1449 ---------------------------------------
1451 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1452 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1453 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1454 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1455 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1456 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1457 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1461 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1462 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1464 Command-Line Interface
1465 ----------------------
1467 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1469 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1470 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1471 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1472 print for each message.
1474 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1475 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1476 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1477 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1479 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1481 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1482 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1483 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1485 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1487 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1488 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1489 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1490 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1492 `notmuch compact` command
1494 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1495 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1496 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1497 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1498 move the compacted database into place.
1503 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1505 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1506 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1507 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1508 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1509 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1510 and multiple threads.
1512 Using `notmuch-tree`
1514 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1516 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1517 search, show and tree mode itself)
1519 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1522 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1523 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1525 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1527 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1528 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1529 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1530 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1531 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1532 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1533 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1535 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1537 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1538 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1539 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1540 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1541 thread when the search was performed.
1543 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1545 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1546 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1547 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1549 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1551 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1552 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1555 Built-in help improvements
1557 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1558 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1559 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1561 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1563 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1564 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1565 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1567 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1569 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1570 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1572 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1574 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1575 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1576 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1577 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1579 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1581 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1582 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1583 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1584 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1586 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1588 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1589 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1590 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1592 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1594 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1595 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1596 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1598 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1600 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1601 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1602 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1603 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1604 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1606 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1608 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1609 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1610 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1611 the body part of the message.
1616 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1617 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1618 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1620 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1621 =========================
1623 Command-Line Interface
1624 ----------------------
1626 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1628 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1629 folder and notmuch index.
1631 `notmuch count --batch` option
1633 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1634 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1636 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1638 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1639 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1640 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1643 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1645 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1646 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1647 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1648 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1649 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1652 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1654 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1655 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1657 Top level option to specify configuration file
1659 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1660 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1662 Bash command-line completion
1664 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1665 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1666 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1667 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1668 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1669 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1670 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1671 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1672 bash-completion package.
1674 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1679 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1681 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1682 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1683 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1684 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1685 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1686 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1687 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1688 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1690 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1692 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1693 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1694 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1696 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1698 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1699 previous thread in the search results.
1701 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1703 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1704 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1706 Faster search and show
1708 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1709 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1710 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1711 threads should show faster.
1715 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1716 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1717 in question was now removed from this release.
1722 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1723 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1728 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1730 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1731 ===========================
1736 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1738 Internal test framework changes
1739 -------------------------------
1741 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1742 being unimplemented.
1744 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1745 ===========================
1747 Internal test framework changes
1748 -------------------------------
1750 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1751 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1753 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1754 =========================
1759 Date range search support
1761 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1762 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1763 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1764 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1765 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1768 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1770 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1771 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1772 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1773 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1774 but may be removed in a future release.
1776 Command-Line Interface
1777 ----------------------
1779 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1781 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1782 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1784 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1786 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1787 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1788 officially deprecated.
1790 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1792 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1793 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1794 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1796 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1798 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1799 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1802 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1803 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1804 dump/restore format.
1806 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1808 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1809 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1810 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1812 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1814 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1815 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1816 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1818 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1820 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1821 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1822 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1823 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1828 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1830 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1831 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1832 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1833 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1835 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1837 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1838 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1839 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1840 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1841 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1842 the behavior of this, see
1843 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1844 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1846 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1847 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1848 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1850 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1852 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1853 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1856 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1858 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1859 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1860 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1861 simply displayed in place of the message.
1863 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1865 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1866 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1868 Improved text/calendar content handling
1870 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1871 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1872 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1873 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1875 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1877 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1878 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1879 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1880 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1882 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1884 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1885 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1886 for HTML email containing images.
1888 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1890 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1892 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1894 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1897 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1899 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1900 the point where it was.
1902 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1904 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1905 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1906 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1907 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1908 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1910 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1912 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1913 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1914 thread instead of the message id.
1916 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1917 -----------------------------
1919 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1920 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1921 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1922 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1923 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1924 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1925 further details and installation.
1930 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1932 Internal test framework changes
1933 -------------------------------
1935 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1937 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1938 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1939 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1940 can result in buggy behavior.
1942 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1943 =========================
1948 Maildir tag synchronization
1950 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1951 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1952 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1953 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1954 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1955 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1958 Command-Line Interface
1959 ----------------------
1961 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1962 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1963 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1964 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1965 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1971 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1973 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1975 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1976 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1977 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1979 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1981 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1982 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1983 span multiple lines.
1985 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1987 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1988 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1989 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1990 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1991 inside the result or message.
1993 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1995 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1996 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1998 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1999 user-specified formatting
2001 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2002 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2003 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2004 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2005 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2007 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2008 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2010 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2011 ===========================
2016 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2017 compilation error for this contrib package.
2019 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2020 ===========================
2025 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2027 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2028 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2029 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2030 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2032 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2033 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2036 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2037 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2038 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2039 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2042 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2044 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2047 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2048 =========================
2050 Command-Line Interface
2051 ----------------------
2055 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2056 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2057 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2058 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2060 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2061 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2062 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2063 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2067 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2068 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2070 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2071 tag in your query, for example:
2073 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2075 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2076 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2078 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2079 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2081 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2083 Raw show format changes
2085 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2086 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2087 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2088 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2089 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2090 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2091 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2092 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2094 Listing configuration items
2096 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2102 Changes to tagging interface
2104 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2105 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2106 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2107 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2108 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2109 for more information.
2111 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2112 may need to update in custom configurations.
2114 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2116 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2117 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2118 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2119 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2122 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2123 -----------------------------
2125 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2126 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2127 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2128 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2129 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2130 contrib/ from now on.
2135 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2136 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2138 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2139 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2141 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2142 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2143 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2145 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2146 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2148 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2149 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2150 returning the new database object or directory object.
2157 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2158 compatible with go 1.
2160 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2161 =========================
2163 Command-Line Interface
2164 ----------------------
2168 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2169 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2170 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2171 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2173 Mail store folder/file ignore
2175 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2176 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2177 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2179 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2180 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2182 Unified help and manual pages
2184 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2185 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2188 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2190 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2191 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2199 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2200 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2201 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2202 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2204 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2206 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2207 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2209 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2212 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2213 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2214 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2216 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2218 should be changed to:
2220 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2222 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2224 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2225 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2227 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2229 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2230 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2231 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2232 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2233 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2234 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2238 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2239 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2240 of Mailing List Archives.
2242 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2244 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2245 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2248 Show view archiving key binding changes
2250 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2251 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2252 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2253 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2254 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2257 Support text/calendar MIME type
2259 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2262 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2264 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2265 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2266 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2267 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2269 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2271 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2272 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2273 messages blue by default in the search view.
2277 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2278 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2285 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2288 Python bindings changes
2289 -----------------------
2291 Python 3.2 compatibility
2293 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2295 Added missing unicode conversions
2297 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2298 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2299 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2304 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2306 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2307 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2308 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2309 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2310 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2312 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2313 ===========================
2318 Fix error handling in python bindings
2320 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2321 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2322 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2323 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2325 Quote MML tags in replies
2327 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2328 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2329 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2330 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2331 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2332 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2333 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2334 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2336 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2337 =========================
2339 Command-Line Interface
2340 ----------------------
2344 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2345 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2346 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2347 importing new messages into the database.
2349 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2351 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2352 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2353 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2358 Automatic tag query optimization
2360 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2361 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2362 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2364 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2366 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2367 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2368 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2373 Reduction of memory leaks
2375 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2376 and fixed in this release.
2383 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2384 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2385 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2388 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2390 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2391 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2392 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2395 Improvements in saved search management
2397 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2398 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2399 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2401 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2403 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2404 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2405 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2407 New face for crypto parts headers
2409 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2410 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2411 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2414 Use space as default thousands separator
2416 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2417 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2418 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2420 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2421 buttonized id: links
2423 New function notmuch-show-advance
2425 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2426 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2427 be bound to SPC with:
2429 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2431 Various performance improvements
2436 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2437 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2440 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2441 ===========================
2446 Fix crash in python bindings
2448 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2449 for some, but not all users.
2451 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2452 ===========================
2457 Fix `--help` argument
2459 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2460 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2461 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2463 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2464 =========================
2466 New build and testing features
2467 ------------------------------
2469 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2470 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2471 prerequisites is improved.
2473 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2475 New command-line features
2476 -------------------------
2478 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2480 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2481 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2484 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2486 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2487 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2488 favour of using stdout.
2490 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2492 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2493 limit the number of results shown.
2495 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2497 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2498 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2501 New emacs UI features
2502 ---------------------
2504 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2506 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2507 starting with "tag:".
2509 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2511 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2512 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2514 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2516 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2518 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2520 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2521 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2526 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2528 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2530 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2531 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2532 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2533 requires a database rebuild:
2535 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2536 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2538 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2540 New collection of add-on tools
2541 ------------------------------
2543 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2544 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2545 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2548 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2550 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2551 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2552 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2554 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2555 ========================
2557 New, general features
2558 ---------------------
2560 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2562 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2563 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2564 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2565 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2566 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2573 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2574 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2576 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2580 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2581 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2582 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2585 Python bindings changes
2586 -----------------------
2588 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2590 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2591 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2592 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2593 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2594 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2595 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2597 Ruby bindings changes
2598 ---------------------
2600 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2601 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2602 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2603 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2608 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2610 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2611 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2613 Reply formatting cleanup
2614 ------------------------
2616 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2617 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2619 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2620 ========================
2622 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2624 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2625 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2626 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2627 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2630 Improved Build system portability
2632 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2633 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2634 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2636 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2638 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2640 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2642 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2643 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2644 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2646 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2647 ========================
2649 Vim interface improvements
2650 --------------------------
2652 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2654 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2655 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2656 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2657 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2658 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2660 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2662 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2663 * fix compose temp file name
2665 Python Bindings changes
2666 -----------------------
2668 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2670 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2671 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2673 Build-System improvements
2674 -------------------------
2676 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2678 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2681 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2682 ==========================
2687 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2689 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2690 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2692 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2693 =======================
2695 New, general features
2696 ---------------------
2698 Folder-based searching
2700 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2701 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2702 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2706 For example, one might use things such as:
2712 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2713 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2715 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2716 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2717 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2718 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2720 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2721 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2722 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2725 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2726 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2728 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2730 Support for PGP/MIME
2732 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2733 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2734 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2736 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2738 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2739 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2741 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2742 notmuch will receive these tags.
2744 New command-line features
2745 -------------------------
2747 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2749 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2750 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2752 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2754 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2755 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2756 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2758 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2760 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2761 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2762 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2763 which parts a signature part applies).
2765 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2767 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2768 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2769 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2770 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2771 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2774 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2776 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2777 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2778 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2779 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2780 by translating it internally to the new call.
2782 Performance improvements
2783 ------------------------
2785 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2787 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2788 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2789 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2791 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2792 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2794 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2796 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2797 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2798 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2800 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2801 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2802 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2803 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2805 Faster initial indexing
2807 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2808 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2809 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2811 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2813 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2814 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2815 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2816 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2818 New emacs-interface features
2819 ----------------------------
2821 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2823 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2824 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2825 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2826 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2827 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2828 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2830 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2832 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2833 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2834 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2835 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2837 User-selectable From address
2839 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2840 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2841 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2842 will prompt for the from address to use.
2844 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2845 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2846 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2848 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2849 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2850 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2853 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2855 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2856 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2858 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2860 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2862 ----- Original Message -----
2864 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2865 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2866 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2867 citations work much like conventional citations.
2869 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2871 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2872 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2873 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2874 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2875 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2877 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2878 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2880 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2882 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2883 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2884 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2886 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2888 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2889 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2890 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2891 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2892 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2894 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2896 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2899 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2901 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2903 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2905 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2908 Vim interface improvements
2909 --------------------------
2911 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2913 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2914 * Implementing archive in show view
2915 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2916 * Add delete commands
2919 Bindings improvements
2920 ---------------------
2922 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2924 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2925 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2927 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2929 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2933 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2934 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2935 `list(Messages)` works now
2936 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2938 These allow, for example:
2940 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2942 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2944 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2950 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2952 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2955 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2957 New build-system features
2958 -------------------------
2960 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2962 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2963 the configure script from some other directory:
2970 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2972 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2973 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2974 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2975 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2976 manual invocation of configure.
2978 New test-suite feature
2979 ----------------------
2981 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2983 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2984 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2985 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2986 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2987 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2990 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2992 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2993 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2994 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2995 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2996 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2997 are updated to take advantage of this.
2999 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3001 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3002 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3003 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3004 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3010 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3012 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3013 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3014 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3016 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3018 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3020 to:user@elsewhere.com
3022 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3024 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3026 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3028 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3029 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3030 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3033 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3034 from the Received headers in some cases
3036 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3037 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3039 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3041 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3043 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3045 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3046 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3047 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3049 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3050 -------------------------
3052 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3054 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3055 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3056 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3058 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3060 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3061 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3062 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3065 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3067 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3068 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3069 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3070 fixed to avoid this bug.
3072 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3074 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3075 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3077 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3078 ========================
3080 New, general features
3081 ---------------------
3083 Maildir-flag synchronization
3085 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3086 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3095 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3097 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3098 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3099 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3100 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3102 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3103 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3104 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3105 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3108 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3110 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3111 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3112 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3114 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3115 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3117 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3118 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3120 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3121 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3122 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3124 New library features
3125 --------------------
3127 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3129 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3130 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3131 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3132 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3134 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3135 message with the new function:
3137 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3139 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3140 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3141 over all available filenames for a given message.
3143 New command-line features
3144 -------------------------
3146 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3148 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3149 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3150 access to the mail store itself.
3152 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3153 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3154 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3155 name of a script containing:
3157 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3159 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3160 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3166 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3168 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3170 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3172 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3173 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3174 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3175 now produces nothing).
3177 Emacs interface improvements
3178 ----------------------------
3180 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3182 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3184 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3186 Display current thread subject in a header line
3188 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3190 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3192 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3193 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3194 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3195 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3196 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3197 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3198 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3200 Vim interface improvements
3201 --------------------------
3203 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3205 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3206 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3212 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3214 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3215 ========================
3217 New command-line features
3218 -------------------------
3220 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3222 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3223 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3224 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3226 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3227 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3228 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3229 scripts. For example:
3231 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3232 <operations-on> "$file"
3235 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3237 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3238 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3239 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3240 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3241 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3242 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3244 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3246 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3247 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3248 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3249 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3251 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3253 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3254 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3255 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3256 default rather than Bcc.
3258 New library features
3259 --------------------
3261 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3263 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3264 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3269 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3271 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3272 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3273 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3274 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3275 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3276 notmuch customize interface.
3278 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3280 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3281 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3282 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3283 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3285 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3287 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3288 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3289 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3290 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3292 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3294 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3295 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3296 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3297 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3298 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3299 notmuch customize interface.
3301 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3303 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3304 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3305 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3306 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3307 notmuch customize interface.
3309 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3311 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3312 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3313 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3314 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3317 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3319 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3320 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3321 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3324 New build-system features
3325 -------------------------
3327 Various portability fixes have been applied
3329 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3330 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3331 more portable than ever before.
3333 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3335 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3336 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3337 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3339 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3340 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3341 automatically run ldconfig.
3343 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3344 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3345 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3347 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3348 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3349 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3350 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3352 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3354 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3355 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3356 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3357 used in the resulting Makefile.
3359 New test-suite features
3360 -----------------------
3362 New modularization of test suite
3364 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3365 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3366 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3367 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3368 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3369 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3370 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3371 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3373 New testing of emacs interface
3375 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3376 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3377 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3378 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3379 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3380 database via the FCC setting.
3385 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3387 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3388 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3389 persistent error of the form:
3391 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3393 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3394 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3396 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3398 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3399 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3400 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3402 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3404 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3405 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3406 parsing the notmuch results).
3408 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3410 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3413 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3414 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3415 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3420 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3422 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3423 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3424 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3425 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3426 the emacs interface.
3428 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3430 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3431 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3432 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3434 Python-binding fixes
3435 --------------------
3437 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3439 Debian-specific fixes
3440 ---------------------
3442 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3444 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3445 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3446 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3449 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3450 ==========================
3455 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3457 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3458 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3459 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3460 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3462 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3464 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3465 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3466 want notmuch to crash.
3471 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3473 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3474 directory does not exist
3479 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3481 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3482 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3484 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3485 ========================
3487 New command-line features
3488 -------------------------
3490 User-configurable tags for new messages
3492 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3493 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3494 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3495 to specify this value.
3497 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3499 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3500 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3501 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3503 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3505 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3506 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3508 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3510 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3511 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3512 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3513 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3514 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3517 Indication of author names that match a search
3519 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3520 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3521 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3522 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3523 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3524 messages in the thread are listed first.
3526 New: Python bindings
3527 --------------------
3529 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3530 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3531 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3532 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3534 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3535 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3536 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3539 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3540 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3541 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3543 Emacs interface improvements
3544 ----------------------------
3546 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3548 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3549 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3550 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3551 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3552 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3553 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3554 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3555 but without any of the disadvantages).
3557 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3558 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3559 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3562 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3563 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3564 instead running something like:
3566 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3568 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3569 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3570 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3573 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3575 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3576 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3577 tweaked by the user.
3579 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3580 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3581 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3584 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3585 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3586 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3589 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3591 This support currently relies on an external program,
3592 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3593 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3594 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3595 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3596 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3599 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3600 notmuch) is available via:
3602 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3604 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3605 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3606 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3608 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3610 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3611 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3612 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3613 making this automatic in a future release.
3615 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3617 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3618 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3619 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3620 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3621 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3622 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3625 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3627 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3628 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3629 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3631 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3633 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3634 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3635 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3637 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3638 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3639 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3640 other representation.
3642 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3643 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3646 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3648 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3649 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3650 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3652 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3653 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3654 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3656 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3658 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3659 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3660 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3661 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3662 to display the search result.
3664 More flexible handling of header visibility
3666 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3667 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3668 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3669 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3670 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3671 with the 'h' keybinding.
3673 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3674 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3675 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3677 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3679 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3681 Customizable formatting of search results
3683 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3684 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3685 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3687 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3689 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3691 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3696 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3698 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3699 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3700 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3701 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3707 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3709 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3710 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3712 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3714 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3715 accept are now all accepted.
3720 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3722 Better display of output from failed tests
3724 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3725 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3727 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3728 ========================
3730 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3731 detailed release notes this time!
3733 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3734 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3736 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3737 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3738 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3739 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3746 Better guessing of From: header
3748 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3749 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3750 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3751 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3752 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3755 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3757 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3758 guaranteed to match all messages.
3760 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3762 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3763 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3764 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3765 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3766 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3769 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3772 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3773 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3774 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3775 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3780 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3782 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3783 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3784 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3785 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3787 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3789 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3791 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3792 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3793 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3795 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3797 Previously, the user might see:
3799 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3803 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3805 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3806 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3807 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3808 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3810 Emacs client features
3811 ---------------------
3813 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3815 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3816 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3817 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3818 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3819 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3821 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3824 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3825 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3826 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3827 search with the '*' binding.
3829 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3831 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3832 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3835 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3837 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3838 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3839 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3841 Build-system features
3842 ---------------------
3844 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3846 Add support to configure for many standard options
3848 We include actual support for:
3850 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3852 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3854 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3855 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3857 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3858 separate "make install-emacs"
3860 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3862 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3863 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3864 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3866 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3869 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3870 ========================
3872 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3874 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3875 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3877 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3878 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3879 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3880 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3881 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3882 tags from messages in a thread.
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