1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
8 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
11 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
12 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
13 the set of headers to be indexed.
15 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
18 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
19 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
20 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
23 Command Line Interface
24 ----------------------
26 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
29 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
34 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
36 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
37 and may be removed in a future release.
39 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
45 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
47 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
48 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
53 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
54 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
57 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
58 ===========================
60 Command line interface
61 ----------------------
63 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
64 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
66 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
67 ===========================
72 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
73 by message properties.
78 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
80 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
81 ===========================
86 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
91 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
92 now needed to build this documentation.
94 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
95 ===========================
100 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
101 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
103 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
104 =========================
111 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
112 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
113 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
114 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
115 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
118 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
120 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
121 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
122 correct encoding for such messages.
124 Command Line Interface
125 ----------------------
127 Support relative database paths
129 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
130 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
131 to $HOME of the invoking user.
136 Improve stderr handling
138 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
139 needed on e.g. macOS.
141 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
143 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
148 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
149 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
155 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
156 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
162 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
163 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
166 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
167 =========================
172 Add support for thread:{} queries
174 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
175 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
176 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
178 Command Line Interface
179 ----------------------
181 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
183 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
185 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
187 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
188 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
189 does not have to be available during message receipt.
194 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
200 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
201 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
203 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
204 ===========================
209 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
211 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
212 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
213 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
215 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
217 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
218 related abort in `notmuch show`.
220 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
221 ===========================
226 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
227 better late than never.
230 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
231 =========================
233 Command Line Interface
234 ----------------------
236 Support for re-indexing existing messages
238 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
239 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
240 change the way specific messages are indexed.
242 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
243 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
244 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
246 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
248 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
250 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
252 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
253 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
254 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
255 the setting of `new.tags`.
257 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
259 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
261 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
263 This inserts into the top level folder.
265 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
267 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
269 New option --output=address for notmuch address
271 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
273 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
275 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
276 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
277 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
279 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
284 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
286 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
287 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
288 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
289 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
290 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
291 config set index.decrypt true".
293 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
294 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
295 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
296 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
297 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
298 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
299 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
300 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
302 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
303 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
304 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
305 this feature without considering the security of your index.
310 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
312 Use make-process when available
314 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
315 notmuch command without using temporary files.
320 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
322 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
323 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
324 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
325 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
327 New functions to count files
329 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
330 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
332 New function to remove properties
334 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
335 drop all properties with a common pattern:
336 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
338 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
340 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
341 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
342 possibility of NULL was not documented.
344 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
346 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
347 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
348 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
349 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
350 operator may decide to change from message to message.
357 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
358 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
359 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
365 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
367 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
368 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
370 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
372 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
374 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
376 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
381 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
382 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
384 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
385 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
386 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
387 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
388 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
389 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
394 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
396 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
397 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
398 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
399 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
401 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
402 ===========================
407 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
408 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
411 Command Line Interface
412 ----------------------
414 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
415 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
418 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
419 ===========================
421 Command Line Interface
422 ----------------------
424 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
425 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
430 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
433 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
434 ===========================
439 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
442 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
443 =========================
448 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
450 Skip HTML tags when indexing
452 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
454 Command Line Interface
455 ----------------------
457 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
459 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
464 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
466 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
467 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
470 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
475 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
477 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
478 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
480 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
482 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
483 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
486 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
488 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
490 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
492 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
493 ===========================
495 Command Line Interface
496 ----------------------
498 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
503 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
505 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
506 ===========================
511 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
513 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
514 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
517 Command Line Interface
518 ----------------------
520 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
522 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
524 Fix bug in dump header
526 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
527 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
528 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
533 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
535 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
536 =========================
541 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
543 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
546 Command Line Interface
547 ----------------------
549 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
551 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
552 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
553 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
555 New default output format to 3
557 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
558 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
559 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
560 default format changes.
565 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
567 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
568 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
569 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
570 or tree view to resume.
572 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
573 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
574 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
577 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
578 they were when you postponed in the final message.
582 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
583 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
584 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
585 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
586 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
590 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
591 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
592 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
593 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
594 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
595 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
599 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
600 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
602 Stop display of `application/*` parts
604 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
605 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
606 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
607 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
608 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
609 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
610 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
611 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
614 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
616 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
617 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
618 only tagged the current thread.)
620 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
622 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
623 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
624 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
626 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
628 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
629 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
630 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
631 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
632 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
633 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
634 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
636 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
638 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
639 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
640 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
645 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
647 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
650 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
652 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
655 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
656 ===========================
661 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
663 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
664 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
665 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
668 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
669 ===========================
671 Command Line Interface
672 ----------------------
674 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
679 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
681 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
682 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
683 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
685 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
686 ===========================
691 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
692 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
694 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
695 ===========================
697 Command Line Interface
698 ----------------------
700 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
702 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
703 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
704 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
709 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
711 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
712 ===========================
714 Command Line Interface
715 ----------------------
717 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
722 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
724 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
725 ===========================
730 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
732 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
733 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
734 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
736 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
738 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
740 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
741 ===========================
746 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
748 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
753 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
755 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
756 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
757 the original colours.
759 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
760 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
762 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
764 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
765 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
766 bug, and hence the test.
768 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
769 =========================
771 General (Xapian 1.4+)
772 ---------------------
774 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
776 Support for single argument date: queries
778 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
780 Support for blocking opens
782 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
783 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
785 Support for named queries
787 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
788 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
789 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
796 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
797 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
798 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
799 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
801 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
803 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
808 Support for compile time options
810 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
811 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
814 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
816 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
817 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
818 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
819 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
820 scripts to ignore it.
825 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
827 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
828 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
829 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
831 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
832 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
833 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
834 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
835 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
836 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
837 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
839 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
840 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
843 Make internal address completion customizable
845 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
846 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
847 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
848 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
851 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
853 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
854 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
855 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
856 completion for the current buffer.
858 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
859 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
860 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
864 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
865 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
866 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
867 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
868 will be added instead.
870 Face customization is easier
872 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
873 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
874 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
875 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
877 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
882 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
887 Go bindings moved to contrib
889 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
891 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
893 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
894 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
896 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
898 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
899 ===========================
906 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
907 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
909 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
911 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
913 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
914 ===========================
919 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
921 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
926 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
931 Use `env` to locate perl.
936 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
938 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
940 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
942 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
944 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
945 =========================
952 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
953 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
955 Limited support for S/MIME messages
957 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
958 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
959 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
964 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
965 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
966 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
968 Command Line Interface
969 ----------------------
971 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
973 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
978 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
983 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
985 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
986 parts are now included in replies.
988 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
989 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
990 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
991 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
993 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
995 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
997 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
999 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1000 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1001 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1002 forwards only the current message.
1004 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1006 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1007 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1008 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1009 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1010 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1011 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1012 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1013 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1016 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1017 longer generate empty buffers
1019 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1020 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1021 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1022 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1023 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1025 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1027 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1030 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1032 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1035 Address completion improvements
1037 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1038 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1039 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1040 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1041 interactive address completion.
1043 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1045 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1046 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1047 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1052 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1053 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1054 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1060 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1061 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1062 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1063 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1064 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1065 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1067 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1068 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1069 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1070 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1071 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1072 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1074 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1075 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1077 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1078 =========================
1083 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1086 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1088 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1089 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1090 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1092 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1093 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1095 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1096 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1097 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1099 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1101 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1102 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1103 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1104 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1105 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1106 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1111 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1112 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1115 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1116 option to configure.
1118 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1120 Command Line Interface
1121 ----------------------
1123 Database revision tracking
1125 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1126 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1127 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1128 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1130 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1132 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1133 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1134 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1135 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1136 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1137 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1138 manual page for further information.
1143 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1145 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1146 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1148 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1150 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1151 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1152 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1154 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1156 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1158 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1159 customization as well.
1161 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1163 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1165 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1167 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1169 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1170 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1171 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1172 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1174 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1176 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1177 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1178 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1179 this variable to 10000.
1184 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1185 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1187 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1189 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1190 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1191 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1192 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1193 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1194 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1195 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1196 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1197 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1200 Database revision tracking
1202 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1203 query parser and the new function
1204 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1206 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1208 Deprecated functions
1210 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1211 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1212 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1213 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1218 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1220 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1221 ===========================
1226 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1228 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1229 ===========================
1234 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1236 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1237 =========================
1239 Command-Line Interface
1240 ----------------------
1242 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1244 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1245 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1246 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1248 Path to gpg is now configurable
1250 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1251 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1256 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1258 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1263 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1268 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1273 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1275 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1276 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1278 New error logging facility
1280 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1281 output formerly printed to stderr.
1283 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1285 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1287 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1289 Fix for rounding of seconds
1294 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1296 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1297 documentation has been removed.
1299 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1301 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1302 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1307 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1308 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1309 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1314 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1315 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1316 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1317 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1318 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1319 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1322 git checkout config origin/config
1324 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1326 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1327 =========================
1332 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1333 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1334 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1335 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1336 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1337 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1338 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1340 Command-Line Interface
1341 ----------------------
1343 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1345 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1346 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1347 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1348 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1349 script callers should still check the return value.
1351 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1353 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1354 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1355 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1356 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1357 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1358 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1359 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1361 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1363 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1364 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1365 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1367 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1369 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1370 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1371 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1372 currently unmaintained.
1374 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1376 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1377 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1378 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1379 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1381 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1383 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1384 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1385 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1386 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1387 count of duplicate addresses.
1392 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1394 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1395 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1396 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1399 Improved handling of the unread tag
1401 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1402 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1403 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1404 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1405 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1406 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1407 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1409 Expanded default saved search settings
1411 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1412 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1414 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1416 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1417 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1418 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1420 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1422 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1423 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1424 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1425 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1426 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1427 the variable for details.
1432 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1434 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1435 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1436 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1437 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1439 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1441 Previously, library users were required to call
1442 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1443 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1444 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1445 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1446 too out of date for that API.
1448 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1450 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1451 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1452 atomic section will be aborted.
1454 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1455 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1457 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1459 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1460 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1461 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1462 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1463 messages into the same thread.
1468 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1469 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1470 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1471 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1472 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1473 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1478 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1479 from the config file. Use something like:
1483 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1484 "footer": "</body></html>",
1493 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1498 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1499 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1500 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1502 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1503 ===========================
1508 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1510 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1512 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1514 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1515 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1517 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1519 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1522 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1523 ===========================
1525 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1530 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1532 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1534 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1536 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1538 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1544 Use --quick when starting emacs
1546 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1548 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1550 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1552 Command-Line Interface
1553 ----------------------
1555 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1556 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1561 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1563 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1564 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1566 Fix for phrase indexing
1568 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1569 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1570 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1575 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1577 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1578 unintentionally removed.
1580 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1581 =========================
1586 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1587 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1588 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1589 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1590 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1591 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1592 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1593 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1594 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1600 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1602 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1603 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1604 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1605 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1606 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1607 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1608 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1609 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1611 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1613 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1614 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1615 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1616 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1619 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1621 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1622 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1623 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1624 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1625 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1626 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1627 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1632 Notmuch database upgrade
1634 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1635 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1636 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1637 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1638 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1639 released version of Notmuch before now.
1641 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1643 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1644 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1645 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1646 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1648 Message header parsing changes
1650 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1651 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1652 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1653 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1654 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1655 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1657 Command-Line Interface
1658 ----------------------
1660 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1662 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1664 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1666 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1668 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1670 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1671 user does not want it.
1673 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1675 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1676 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1677 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1678 support formatted output.
1680 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1682 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1683 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1684 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1692 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1693 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1694 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1695 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1696 `~/.emacs` with these.
1698 Changed format for saved searches
1700 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1701 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1702 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1703 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1706 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1707 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1708 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1709 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1711 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1712 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1713 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1715 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1716 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1717 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1718 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1719 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1721 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1723 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1724 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1725 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1727 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1729 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1730 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1731 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1732 message had been unread).
1734 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1735 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1736 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1737 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1739 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1740 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1741 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1743 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1744 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1745 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1746 to tags already present.
1750 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1751 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1752 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1753 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1754 these differ from each other.
1755 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1757 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1759 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1760 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1761 for these Emacs versions.
1763 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1765 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1766 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1768 Bug fixes for sender identities
1770 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1771 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1772 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1774 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1776 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1777 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1778 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1779 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1781 Reply pushes mark before signature
1783 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1784 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1785 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1787 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1789 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1790 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1796 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1797 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1799 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1800 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1801 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1802 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1804 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1805 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1806 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1807 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1808 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1810 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1812 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1813 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1815 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1816 =========================
1818 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1819 ---------------------------------------
1821 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1822 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1823 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1824 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1825 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1826 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1827 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1831 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1832 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1834 Command-Line Interface
1835 ----------------------
1837 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1839 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1840 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1841 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1842 print for each message.
1844 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1845 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1846 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1847 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1849 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1851 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1852 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1853 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1855 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1857 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1858 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1859 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1860 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1862 `notmuch compact` command
1864 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1865 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1866 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1867 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1868 move the compacted database into place.
1873 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1875 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1876 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1877 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1878 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1879 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1880 and multiple threads.
1882 Using `notmuch-tree`
1884 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1886 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1887 search, show and tree mode itself)
1889 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1892 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1893 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1895 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1897 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1898 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1899 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1900 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1901 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1902 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1903 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1905 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1907 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1908 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1909 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1910 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1911 thread when the search was performed.
1913 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1915 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1916 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1917 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1919 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1921 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1922 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1925 Built-in help improvements
1927 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1928 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1929 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1931 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1933 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1934 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1935 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1937 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1939 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1940 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1942 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1944 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1945 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1946 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1947 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1949 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1951 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1952 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1953 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1954 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1956 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1958 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1959 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1960 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1962 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1964 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1965 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1966 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1968 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1970 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1971 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1972 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1973 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1974 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1976 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1978 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1979 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1980 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1981 the body part of the message.
1986 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1987 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1988 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1990 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1991 =========================
1993 Command-Line Interface
1994 ----------------------
1996 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1998 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1999 folder and notmuch index.
2001 `notmuch count --batch` option
2003 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2004 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2006 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2008 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2009 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2010 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2013 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2015 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2016 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2017 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2018 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2019 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2022 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2024 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2025 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2027 Top level option to specify configuration file
2029 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2030 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2032 Bash command-line completion
2034 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2035 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2036 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2037 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2038 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2039 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2040 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2041 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2042 bash-completion package.
2044 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2049 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2051 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2052 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2053 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2054 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2055 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2056 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2057 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2058 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2060 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2062 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2063 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2064 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2066 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2068 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2069 previous thread in the search results.
2071 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2073 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2074 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2076 Faster search and show
2078 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2079 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2080 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2081 threads should show faster.
2085 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2086 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2087 in question was now removed from this release.
2092 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2093 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2098 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2100 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2101 ===========================
2106 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2108 Internal test framework changes
2109 -------------------------------
2111 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2112 being unimplemented.
2114 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2115 ===========================
2117 Internal test framework changes
2118 -------------------------------
2120 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2121 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2123 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2124 =========================
2129 Date range search support
2131 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2132 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2133 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2134 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2135 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2138 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2140 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2141 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2142 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2143 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2144 but may be removed in a future release.
2146 Command-Line Interface
2147 ----------------------
2149 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2151 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2152 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2154 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2156 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2157 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2158 officially deprecated.
2160 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2162 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2163 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2164 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2166 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2168 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2169 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2172 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2173 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2174 dump/restore format.
2176 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2178 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2179 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2180 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2182 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2184 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2185 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2186 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2188 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2190 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2191 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2192 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2193 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2198 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2200 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2201 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2202 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2203 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2205 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2207 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2208 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2209 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2210 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2211 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2212 the behavior of this, see
2213 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2214 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2216 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2217 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2218 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2220 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2222 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2223 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2226 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2228 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2229 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2230 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2231 simply displayed in place of the message.
2233 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2235 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2236 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2238 Improved text/calendar content handling
2240 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2241 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2242 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2243 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2245 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2247 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2248 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2249 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2250 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2252 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2254 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2255 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2256 for HTML email containing images.
2258 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2260 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2262 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2264 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2267 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2269 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2270 the point where it was.
2272 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2274 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2275 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2276 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2277 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2278 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2280 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2282 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2283 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2284 thread instead of the message id.
2286 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2287 -----------------------------
2289 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2290 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2291 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2292 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2293 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2294 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2295 further details and installation.
2300 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2302 Internal test framework changes
2303 -------------------------------
2305 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2307 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2308 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2309 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2310 can result in buggy behavior.
2312 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2313 =========================
2318 Maildir tag synchronization
2320 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2321 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2322 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2323 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2324 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2325 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2328 Command-Line Interface
2329 ----------------------
2331 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2332 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2333 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2334 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2335 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2341 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2343 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2345 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2346 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2347 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2349 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2351 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2352 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2353 span multiple lines.
2355 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2357 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2358 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2359 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2360 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2361 inside the result or message.
2363 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2365 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2366 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2368 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2369 user-specified formatting
2371 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2372 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2373 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2374 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2375 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2377 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2378 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2380 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2381 ===========================
2386 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2387 compilation error for this contrib package.
2389 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2390 ===========================
2395 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2397 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2398 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2399 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2400 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2402 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2403 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2406 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2407 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2408 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2409 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2412 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2414 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2417 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2418 =========================
2420 Command-Line Interface
2421 ----------------------
2425 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2426 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2427 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2428 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2430 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2431 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2432 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2433 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2437 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2438 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2440 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2441 tag in your query, for example:
2443 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2445 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2446 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2448 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2449 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2451 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2453 Raw show format changes
2455 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2456 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2457 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2458 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2459 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2460 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2461 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2462 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2464 Listing configuration items
2466 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2472 Changes to tagging interface
2474 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2475 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2476 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2477 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2478 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2479 for more information.
2481 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2482 may need to update in custom configurations.
2484 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2486 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2487 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2488 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2489 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2492 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2493 -----------------------------
2495 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2496 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2497 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2498 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2499 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2500 contrib/ from now on.
2505 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2506 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2508 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2509 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2511 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2512 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2513 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2515 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2516 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2518 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2519 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2520 returning the new database object or directory object.
2527 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2528 compatible with go 1.
2530 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2531 =========================
2533 Command-Line Interface
2534 ----------------------
2538 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2539 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2540 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2541 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2543 Mail store folder/file ignore
2545 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2546 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2547 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2549 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2550 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2552 Unified help and manual pages
2554 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2555 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2558 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2560 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2561 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2569 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2570 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2571 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2572 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2574 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2576 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2577 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2579 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2582 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2583 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2584 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2586 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2588 should be changed to:
2590 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2592 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2594 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2595 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2597 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2599 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2600 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2601 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2602 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2603 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2604 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2608 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2609 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2610 of Mailing List Archives.
2612 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2614 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2615 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2618 Show view archiving key binding changes
2620 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2621 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2622 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2623 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2624 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2627 Support text/calendar MIME type
2629 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2632 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2634 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2635 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2636 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2637 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2639 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2641 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2642 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2643 messages blue by default in the search view.
2647 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2648 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2655 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2658 Python bindings changes
2659 -----------------------
2661 Python 3.2 compatibility
2663 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2665 Added missing unicode conversions
2667 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2668 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2669 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2674 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2676 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2677 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2678 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2679 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2680 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2682 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2683 ===========================
2688 Fix error handling in python bindings
2690 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2691 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2692 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2693 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2695 Quote MML tags in replies
2697 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2698 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2699 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2700 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2701 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2702 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2703 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2704 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2706 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2707 =========================
2709 Command-Line Interface
2710 ----------------------
2714 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2715 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2716 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2717 importing new messages into the database.
2719 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2721 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2722 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2723 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2728 Automatic tag query optimization
2730 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2731 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2732 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2734 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2736 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2737 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2738 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2743 Reduction of memory leaks
2745 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2746 and fixed in this release.
2753 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2754 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2755 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2758 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2760 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2761 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2762 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2765 Improvements in saved search management
2767 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2768 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2769 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2771 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2773 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2774 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2775 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2777 New face for crypto parts headers
2779 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2780 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2781 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2784 Use space as default thousands separator
2786 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2787 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2788 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2790 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2791 buttonized id: links
2793 New function notmuch-show-advance
2795 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2796 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2797 be bound to SPC with:
2799 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2801 Various performance improvements
2806 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2807 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2810 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2811 ===========================
2816 Fix crash in python bindings
2818 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2819 for some, but not all users.
2821 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2822 ===========================
2827 Fix `--help` argument
2829 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2830 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2831 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2833 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2834 =========================
2836 New build and testing features
2837 ------------------------------
2839 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2840 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2841 prerequisites is improved.
2843 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2845 New command-line features
2846 -------------------------
2848 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2850 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2851 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2854 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2856 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2857 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2858 favour of using stdout.
2860 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2862 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2863 limit the number of results shown.
2865 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2867 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2868 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2871 New emacs UI features
2872 ---------------------
2874 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2876 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2877 starting with "tag:".
2879 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2881 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2882 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2884 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2886 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2888 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2890 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2891 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2896 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2898 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2900 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2901 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2902 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2903 requires a database rebuild:
2905 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2906 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2908 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2910 New collection of add-on tools
2911 ------------------------------
2913 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2914 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2915 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2918 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2920 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2921 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2922 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2924 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2925 ========================
2927 New, general features
2928 ---------------------
2930 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2932 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2933 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2934 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2935 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2936 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2943 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2944 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2946 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2950 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2951 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2952 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2955 Python bindings changes
2956 -----------------------
2958 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2960 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2961 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2962 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2963 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2964 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2965 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2967 Ruby bindings changes
2968 ---------------------
2970 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2971 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2972 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2973 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2978 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2980 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2981 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2983 Reply formatting cleanup
2984 ------------------------
2986 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2987 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2989 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2990 ========================
2992 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2994 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2995 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2996 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2997 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3000 Improved Build system portability
3002 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3003 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3004 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3006 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3008 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3010 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3012 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3013 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3014 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3016 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3017 ========================
3019 Vim interface improvements
3020 --------------------------
3022 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3024 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3025 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3026 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3027 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3028 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3030 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3032 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3033 * fix compose temp file name
3035 Python Bindings changes
3036 -----------------------
3038 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3040 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3041 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3043 Build-System improvements
3044 -------------------------
3046 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3048 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3051 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3052 ==========================
3057 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3059 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3060 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3062 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3063 =======================
3065 New, general features
3066 ---------------------
3068 Folder-based searching
3070 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3071 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3072 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3076 For example, one might use things such as:
3082 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3083 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3085 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3086 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3087 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3088 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3090 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3091 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3092 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3095 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3096 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3098 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3100 Support for PGP/MIME
3102 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3103 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3104 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3106 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3108 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3109 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3111 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3112 notmuch will receive these tags.
3114 New command-line features
3115 -------------------------
3117 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3119 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3120 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3122 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3124 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3125 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3126 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3128 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3130 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3131 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3132 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3133 which parts a signature part applies).
3135 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3137 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3138 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3139 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3140 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3141 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3144 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3146 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3147 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3148 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3149 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3150 by translating it internally to the new call.
3152 Performance improvements
3153 ------------------------
3155 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3157 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3158 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3159 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3161 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3162 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3164 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3166 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3167 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3168 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3170 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3171 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3172 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3173 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3175 Faster initial indexing
3177 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3178 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3179 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3181 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3183 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3184 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3185 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3186 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3188 New emacs-interface features
3189 ----------------------------
3191 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3193 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3194 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3195 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3196 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3197 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3198 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3200 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3202 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3203 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3204 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3205 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3207 User-selectable From address
3209 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3210 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3211 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3212 will prompt for the from address to use.
3214 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3215 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3216 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3218 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3219 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3220 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3223 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3225 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3226 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3228 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3230 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3232 ----- Original Message -----
3234 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3235 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3236 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3237 citations work much like conventional citations.
3239 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3241 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3242 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3243 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3244 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3245 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3247 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3248 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3250 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3252 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3253 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3254 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3256 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3258 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3259 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3260 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3261 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3262 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3264 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3266 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3269 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3271 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3273 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3275 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3278 Vim interface improvements
3279 --------------------------
3281 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3283 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3284 * Implementing archive in show view
3285 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3286 * Add delete commands
3289 Bindings improvements
3290 ---------------------
3292 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3294 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3295 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3297 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3299 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3303 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3304 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3305 `list(Messages)` works now
3306 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3308 These allow, for example:
3310 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3312 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3314 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3320 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3322 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3325 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3327 New build-system features
3328 -------------------------
3330 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3332 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3333 the configure script from some other directory:
3340 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3342 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3343 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3344 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3345 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3346 manual invocation of configure.
3348 New test-suite feature
3349 ----------------------
3351 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3353 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3354 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3355 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3356 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3357 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3360 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3362 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3363 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3364 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3365 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3366 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3367 are updated to take advantage of this.
3369 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3371 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3372 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3373 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3374 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3380 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3382 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3383 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3384 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3386 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3388 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3390 to:user@elsewhere.com
3392 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3394 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3396 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3398 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3399 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3400 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3403 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3404 from the Received headers in some cases
3406 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3407 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3409 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3411 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3413 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3415 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3416 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3417 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3419 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3420 -------------------------
3422 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3424 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3425 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3426 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3428 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3430 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3431 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3432 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3435 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3437 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3438 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3439 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3440 fixed to avoid this bug.
3442 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3444 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3445 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3447 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3448 ========================
3450 New, general features
3451 ---------------------
3453 Maildir-flag synchronization
3455 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3456 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3465 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3467 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3468 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3469 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3470 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3472 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3473 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3474 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3475 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3478 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3480 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3481 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3482 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3484 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3485 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3487 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3488 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3490 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3491 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3492 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3494 New library features
3495 --------------------
3497 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3499 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3500 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3501 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3502 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3504 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3505 message with the new function:
3507 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3509 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3510 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3511 over all available filenames for a given message.
3513 New command-line features
3514 -------------------------
3516 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3518 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3519 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3520 access to the mail store itself.
3522 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3523 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3524 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3525 name of a script containing:
3527 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3529 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3530 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3536 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3538 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3540 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3542 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3543 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3544 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3545 now produces nothing).
3547 Emacs interface improvements
3548 ----------------------------
3550 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3552 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3554 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3556 Display current thread subject in a header line
3558 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3560 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3562 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3563 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3564 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3565 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3566 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3567 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3568 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3570 Vim interface improvements
3571 --------------------------
3573 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3575 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3576 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3582 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3584 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3585 ========================
3587 New command-line features
3588 -------------------------
3590 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3592 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3593 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3594 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3596 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3597 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3598 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3599 scripts. For example:
3601 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3602 <operations-on> "$file"
3605 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3607 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3608 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3609 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3610 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3611 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3612 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3614 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3616 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3617 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3618 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3619 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3621 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3623 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3624 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3625 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3626 default rather than Bcc.
3628 New library features
3629 --------------------
3631 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3633 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3634 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3639 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3641 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3642 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3643 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3644 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3645 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3646 notmuch customize interface.
3648 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3650 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3651 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3652 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3653 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3655 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3657 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3658 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3659 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3660 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3662 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3664 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3665 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3666 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3667 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3668 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3669 notmuch customize interface.
3671 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3673 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3674 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3675 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3676 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3677 notmuch customize interface.
3679 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3681 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3682 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3683 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3684 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3687 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3689 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3690 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3691 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3694 New build-system features
3695 -------------------------
3697 Various portability fixes have been applied
3699 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3700 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3701 more portable than ever before.
3703 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3705 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3706 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3707 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3709 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3710 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3711 automatically run ldconfig.
3713 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3714 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3715 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3717 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3718 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3719 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3720 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3722 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3724 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3725 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3726 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3727 used in the resulting Makefile.
3729 New test-suite features
3730 -----------------------
3732 New modularization of test suite
3734 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3735 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3736 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3737 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3738 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3739 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3740 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3741 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3743 New testing of emacs interface
3745 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3746 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3747 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3748 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3749 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3750 database via the FCC setting.
3755 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3757 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3758 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3759 persistent error of the form:
3761 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3763 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3764 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3766 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3768 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3769 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3770 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3772 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3774 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3775 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3776 parsing the notmuch results).
3778 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3780 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3783 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3784 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3785 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3790 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3792 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3793 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3794 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3795 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3796 the emacs interface.
3798 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3800 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3801 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3802 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3804 Python-binding fixes
3805 --------------------
3807 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3809 Debian-specific fixes
3810 ---------------------
3812 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3814 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3815 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3816 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3819 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3820 ==========================
3825 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3827 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3828 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3829 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3830 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3832 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3834 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3835 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3836 want notmuch to crash.
3841 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3843 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3844 directory does not exist
3849 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3851 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3852 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3854 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3855 ========================
3857 New command-line features
3858 -------------------------
3860 User-configurable tags for new messages
3862 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3863 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3864 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3865 to specify this value.
3867 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3869 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3870 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3871 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3873 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3875 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3876 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3878 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3880 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3881 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3882 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3883 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3884 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3887 Indication of author names that match a search
3889 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3890 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3891 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3892 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3893 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3894 messages in the thread are listed first.
3896 New: Python bindings
3897 --------------------
3899 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3900 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3901 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3902 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3904 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3905 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3906 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3909 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3910 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3911 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3913 Emacs interface improvements
3914 ----------------------------
3916 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3918 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3919 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3920 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3921 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3922 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3923 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3924 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3925 but without any of the disadvantages).
3927 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3928 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3929 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3932 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3933 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3934 instead running something like:
3936 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3938 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3939 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3940 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3943 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3945 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3946 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3947 tweaked by the user.
3949 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3950 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3951 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3954 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3955 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3956 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3959 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3961 This support currently relies on an external program,
3962 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3963 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3964 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3965 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3966 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3969 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3970 notmuch) is available via:
3972 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3974 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3975 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3976 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3978 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3980 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3981 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3982 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3983 making this automatic in a future release.
3985 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3987 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3988 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3989 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3990 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3991 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3992 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3995 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3997 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3998 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3999 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4001 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4003 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4004 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4005 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4007 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4008 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4009 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4010 other representation.
4012 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4013 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4016 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4018 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4019 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4020 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4022 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4023 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4024 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4026 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4028 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4029 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4030 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4031 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4032 to display the search result.
4034 More flexible handling of header visibility
4036 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4037 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4038 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4039 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4040 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4041 with the 'h' keybinding.
4043 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4044 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4045 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4047 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4049 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4051 Customizable formatting of search results
4053 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4054 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4055 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4057 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4059 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4061 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4066 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4068 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4069 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4070 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4071 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4077 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4079 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4080 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4082 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4084 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4085 accept are now all accepted.
4090 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4092 Better display of output from failed tests
4094 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4095 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4097 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4098 ========================
4100 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4101 detailed release notes this time!
4103 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4104 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4106 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4107 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4108 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4109 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4116 Better guessing of From: header
4118 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4119 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4120 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4121 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4122 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4125 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4127 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4128 guaranteed to match all messages.
4130 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4132 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4133 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4134 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4135 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4136 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4139 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4142 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4143 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4144 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4145 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4150 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4152 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4153 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4154 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4155 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4157 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4159 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4161 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4162 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4163 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4165 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4167 Previously, the user might see:
4169 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4173 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4175 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4176 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4177 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4178 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4180 Emacs client features
4181 ---------------------
4183 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4185 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4186 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4187 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4188 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4189 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4191 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4194 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4195 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4196 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4197 search with the '*' binding.
4199 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4201 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4202 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4205 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4207 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4208 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4209 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4211 Build-system features
4212 ---------------------
4214 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4216 Add support to configure for many standard options
4218 We include actual support for:
4220 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4222 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4224 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4225 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4227 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4228 separate "make install-emacs"
4230 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4232 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4233 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4234 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4236 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4239 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4240 ========================
4242 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4244 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4245 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4247 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4248 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4249 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4250 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4251 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4252 tags from messages in a thread.
4259 indent-tabs-mode: nil