1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
18 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
19 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
20 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
21 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
22 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
23 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
28 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
29 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
32 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
35 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
37 Command Line Interface
38 ----------------------
40 Database revision tracking
42 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
43 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
44 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
45 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
50 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
52 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
53 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
55 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
57 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
58 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
59 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
61 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>".
63 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
65 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
66 customization as well.
71 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
72 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
74 Database revision tracking
76 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
77 query parser and the new function
78 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
80 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}.
84 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
85 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
86 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
87 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
89 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
90 ===========================
95 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
97 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
98 ===========================
103 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
105 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
106 =========================
108 Command-Line Interface
109 ----------------------
111 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
113 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
114 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
115 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
117 Path to gpg is now configurable
119 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
120 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
125 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
127 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
132 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
137 Support messages without Message-IDs.
142 Undeprecate single message mboxes
144 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
145 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
147 New error logging facility
149 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
150 output formerly printed to stderr.
152 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
154 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
156 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
158 Fix for rounding of seconds
163 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
165 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
166 docmumentation has been removed.
168 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
170 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
171 some material from the relicensed wiki.
176 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
177 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
178 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
183 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
184 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
185 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
186 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
187 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
188 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
191 git checkout config origin/config
193 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
195 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
196 =========================
201 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
202 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
203 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
204 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
205 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
206 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
207 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
209 Command-Line Interface
210 ----------------------
212 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
214 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
215 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
216 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
217 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
218 script callers should still check the return value.
220 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
222 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
223 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
224 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
225 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
226 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
227 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
228 and returning success even if indexing fails).
230 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
232 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
233 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
234 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
236 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
238 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
239 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
240 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
241 currently unmaintained.
243 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
245 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
246 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
247 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
248 have at least `N` files associated with them.
250 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
252 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
253 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
254 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
255 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
256 count of duplicate addresses.
261 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
263 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
264 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
265 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
268 Improved handling of the unread tag
270 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
271 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
272 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
273 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
274 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
275 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
276 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
278 Expanded default saved search settings
280 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
281 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
283 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
285 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
286 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
287 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
289 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
291 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
292 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
293 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
294 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
295 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
296 the variable for details.
301 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
303 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
304 Representing these independently of the database version number will
305 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
306 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
308 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
310 Previously, library users were required to call
311 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
312 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
313 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
314 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
315 too out of date for that API.
317 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
319 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
320 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
321 atomic section will be aborted.
323 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
324 `notmuch_database_destroy`
326 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
328 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
329 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
330 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
331 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
332 messages into the same thread.
337 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
338 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
339 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
340 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
341 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
342 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
347 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
348 from the config file. Use something like:
352 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
353 "footer": "</body></html>",
362 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
367 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
368 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
369 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
371 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
372 ===========================
377 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
379 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
381 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
383 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
384 structure for signatures changed slightly.
386 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
388 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
391 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
392 ===========================
394 This is a bug fix and portability release.
399 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
401 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
403 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
405 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
407 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
413 Use --quick when starting emacs
415 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
417 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
419 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
421 Command-Line Interface
422 ----------------------
424 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
425 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
430 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
432 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
433 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
435 Fix for phrase indexing
437 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
438 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
439 will affect only newly indexed messages.
444 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
446 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
447 unintentionally removed.
449 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
450 =========================
455 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
456 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
457 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
458 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
459 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
460 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
461 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
462 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
463 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
469 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
471 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
472 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
473 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
474 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
475 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
476 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
477 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
478 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
480 There is a new `path:` search prefix
482 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
483 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
484 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
485 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
488 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
490 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
491 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
492 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
493 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
494 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
495 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
496 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
501 Notmuch database upgrade
503 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
504 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
505 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
506 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
507 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
508 released version of Notmuch before now.
510 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
512 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
513 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
514 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
515 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
517 Message header parsing changes
519 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
520 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
521 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
522 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
523 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
524 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
526 Command-Line Interface
527 ----------------------
529 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
531 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
533 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
535 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
537 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
539 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
540 user does not want it.
542 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
544 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
545 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
546 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
547 support formatted output.
549 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
551 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
552 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
553 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
561 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
562 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
563 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
564 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
565 `~/.emacs` with these.
567 Changed format for saved searches
569 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
570 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
571 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
572 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
575 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
576 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
577 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
578 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
580 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
581 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
582 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
584 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
585 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
586 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
587 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
588 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
590 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
592 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
593 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
594 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
596 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
598 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
599 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
600 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
601 message had been unread).
603 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
604 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
605 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
606 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
608 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
609 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
610 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
612 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
613 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
614 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
615 to tags already present.
619 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
620 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
621 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
622 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
623 these differ from each other.
624 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
626 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
628 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
629 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
630 for these Emacs versions.
632 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
634 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
635 newlines before calling notmuch count.
637 Bug fixes for sender identities
639 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
640 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
641 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
643 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
645 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
646 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
647 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
648 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
650 Reply pushes mark before signature
652 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
653 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
654 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
656 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
658 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
659 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
665 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
666 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
668 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
669 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
670 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
671 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
673 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
674 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
675 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
676 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
677 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
679 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
681 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
682 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
684 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
685 =========================
687 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
688 ---------------------------------------
690 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
691 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
692 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
693 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
694 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
695 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
696 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
700 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
701 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
703 Command-Line Interface
704 ----------------------
706 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
708 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
709 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
710 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
711 print for each message.
713 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
714 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
715 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
716 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
718 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
720 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
721 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
722 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
724 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
726 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
727 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
728 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
729 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
731 `notmuch compact` command
733 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
734 functionality through a more convenient interface than
735 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
736 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
737 move the compacted database into place.
742 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
744 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
745 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
746 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
747 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
748 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
749 and multiple threads.
753 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
755 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
756 search, show and tree mode itself)
758 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
761 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
762 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
764 Customising `notmuch-tree`
766 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
767 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
768 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
769 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
770 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
771 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
772 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
774 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
776 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
777 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
778 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
779 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
780 thread when the search was performed.
782 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
784 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
785 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
786 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
788 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
790 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
791 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
794 Built-in help improvements
796 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
797 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
798 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
800 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
802 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
803 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
804 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
806 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
808 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
809 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
811 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
813 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
814 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
815 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
816 to move some of them to the common keymap.
818 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
820 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
821 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
822 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
823 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
825 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
827 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
828 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
829 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
831 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
833 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
834 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
835 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
837 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
839 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
840 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
841 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
842 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
843 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
845 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
847 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
848 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
849 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
850 the body part of the message.
855 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
856 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
857 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
859 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
860 =========================
862 Command-Line Interface
863 ----------------------
865 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
867 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
868 folder and notmuch index.
870 `notmuch count --batch` option
872 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
873 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
875 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
877 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
878 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
879 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
882 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
884 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
885 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
886 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
887 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
888 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
891 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
893 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
894 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
896 Top level option to specify configuration file
898 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
899 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
901 Bash command-line completion
903 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
904 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
905 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
906 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
907 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
908 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
909 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
910 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
911 bash-completion package.
913 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
918 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
920 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
921 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
922 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
923 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
924 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
925 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
926 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
927 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
929 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
931 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
932 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
933 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
935 Key bindings for next/previous thread
937 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
938 previous thread in the search results.
940 Better handling of errors in search buffers
942 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
943 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
945 Faster search and show
947 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
948 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
949 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
950 threads should show faster.
954 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
955 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
956 in question was now removed from this release.
961 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
962 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
967 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
969 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
970 ===========================
975 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
977 Internal test framework changes
978 -------------------------------
980 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
983 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
984 ===========================
986 Internal test framework changes
987 -------------------------------
989 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
990 build failures in non-interactive environments.
992 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
993 =========================
998 Date range search support
1000 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1001 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1002 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1003 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1004 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1007 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1009 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1010 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1011 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1012 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1013 but may be removed in a future release.
1015 Command-Line Interface
1016 ----------------------
1018 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1020 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1021 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1023 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1025 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1026 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1027 officially deprecated.
1029 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1031 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1032 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1033 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1035 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1037 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1038 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1041 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1042 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1043 dump/restore format.
1045 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1047 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1048 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1049 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1051 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1053 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1054 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1055 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1057 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1059 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1060 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1061 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1062 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1067 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1069 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1070 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1071 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1072 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1074 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1076 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1077 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1078 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1079 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1080 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1081 the behavior of this, see
1082 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1083 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1085 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1086 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1087 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1089 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1091 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1092 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1095 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1097 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1098 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1099 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1100 simply displayed in place of the message.
1102 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1104 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1105 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1107 Improved text/calendar content handling
1109 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1110 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1111 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1112 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1114 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1116 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1117 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1118 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1119 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1121 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1123 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1124 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1125 for HTML email containing images.
1127 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1129 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1131 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1133 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1136 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1138 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1139 the point where it was.
1141 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1143 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1144 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1145 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1146 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1147 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1149 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1151 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1152 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1153 thread instead of the message id.
1155 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1156 -----------------------------
1158 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1159 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1160 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1161 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1162 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1163 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1164 further details and installation.
1169 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1171 Internal test framework changes
1172 -------------------------------
1174 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1176 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1177 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1178 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1179 can result in buggy behavior.
1181 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1182 =========================
1187 Maildir tag synchronization
1189 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1190 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1191 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1192 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1193 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1194 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1197 Command-Line Interface
1198 ----------------------
1200 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1201 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1202 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1203 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1204 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1210 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1212 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1214 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1215 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1216 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1218 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1220 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1221 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1222 span multiple lines.
1224 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1226 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1227 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1228 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1229 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1230 inside the result or message.
1232 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1234 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1235 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1237 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1238 user-specified formatting
1240 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1241 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1242 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1243 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1244 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1246 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1247 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1249 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1250 ===========================
1255 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1256 compilation error for this contrib package.
1258 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1259 ===========================
1264 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1266 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1267 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1268 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1269 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1271 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1272 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1275 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1276 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1277 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1278 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1281 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1283 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1286 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1287 =========================
1289 Command-Line Interface
1290 ----------------------
1294 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1295 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1296 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1297 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1299 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1300 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1301 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1302 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1306 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1307 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1309 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1310 tag in your query, for example:
1312 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1314 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1315 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1317 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1318 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1320 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1322 Raw show format changes
1324 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1325 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1326 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1327 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1328 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1329 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1330 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1331 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1333 Listing configuration items
1335 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1341 Changes to tagging interface
1343 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1344 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1345 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1346 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1347 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1348 for more information.
1350 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1351 may need to update in custom configurations.
1353 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1355 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1356 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1357 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1358 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1361 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1362 -----------------------------
1364 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1365 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1366 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1367 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1368 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1369 contrib/ from now on.
1374 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1375 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1377 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1378 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1380 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1381 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1382 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1384 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1385 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1387 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1388 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1389 returning the new database object or directory object.
1396 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1397 compatible with go 1.
1399 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1400 =========================
1402 Command-Line Interface
1403 ----------------------
1407 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1408 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1409 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1410 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1412 Mail store folder/file ignore
1414 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1415 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1416 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1418 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1419 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1421 Unified help and manual pages
1423 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1424 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1427 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1429 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1430 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1438 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1439 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1440 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1441 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1443 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1445 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1446 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1448 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1451 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1452 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1453 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1455 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1457 should be changed to:
1459 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1461 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1463 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1464 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1466 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1468 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1469 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1470 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1471 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1472 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1473 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1477 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1478 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1479 of Mailing List Archives.
1481 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1483 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1484 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1487 Show view archiving key binding changes
1489 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1490 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1491 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1492 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1493 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1496 Support text/calendar MIME type
1498 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1501 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1503 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1504 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1505 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1506 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1508 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1510 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1511 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1512 messages blue by default in the search view.
1516 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1517 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1524 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1527 Python bindings changes
1528 -----------------------
1530 Python 3.2 compatibility
1532 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1534 Added missing unicode conversions
1536 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1537 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1538 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1543 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1545 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1546 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1547 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1548 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1549 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1551 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1552 ===========================
1557 Fix error handling in python bindings
1559 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1560 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1561 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1562 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1564 Quote MML tags in replies
1566 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1567 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1568 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1569 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1570 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1571 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1572 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1573 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1575 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1576 =========================
1578 Command-Line Interface
1579 ----------------------
1583 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1584 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1585 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1586 importing new messages into the database.
1588 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1590 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1591 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1592 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1597 Automatic tag query optimization
1599 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1600 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1601 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1603 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1605 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1606 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1607 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1612 Reduction of memory leaks
1614 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1615 and fixed in this release.
1622 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1623 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1624 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1627 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1629 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1630 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1631 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1634 Improvements in saved search management
1636 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1637 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1638 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1640 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1642 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1643 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1644 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1646 New face for crypto parts headers
1648 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1649 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1650 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1653 Use space as default thousands separator
1655 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1656 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1657 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1659 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1660 buttonized id: links
1662 New function notmuch-show-advance
1664 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1665 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1666 be bound to SPC with:
1668 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1670 Various performance improvements
1675 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1676 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1679 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1680 ===========================
1685 Fix crash in python bindings
1687 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1688 for some, but not all users.
1690 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1691 ===========================
1696 Fix `--help` argument
1698 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1699 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1700 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1702 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1703 =========================
1705 New build and testing features
1706 ------------------------------
1708 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1709 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1710 prerequisites is improved.
1712 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1714 New command-line features
1715 -------------------------
1717 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1719 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1720 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1723 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1725 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1726 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1727 favour of using stdout.
1729 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1731 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1732 limit the number of results shown.
1734 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1736 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1737 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1740 New emacs UI features
1741 ---------------------
1743 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1745 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1746 starting with "tag:".
1748 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1750 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1751 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1753 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1755 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1757 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1759 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1760 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1765 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1767 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1769 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1770 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1771 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1772 requires a database rebuild:
1774 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1775 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1777 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1779 New collection of add-on tools
1780 ------------------------------
1782 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1783 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1784 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1787 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1789 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1790 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1791 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1793 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1794 ========================
1796 New, general features
1797 ---------------------
1799 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1801 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1802 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1803 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1804 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1805 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1812 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1813 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1815 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1819 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1820 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1821 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1824 Python bindings changes
1825 -----------------------
1827 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1829 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1830 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1831 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1832 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1833 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1834 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1836 Ruby bindings changes
1837 ---------------------
1839 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1840 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1841 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1842 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1847 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1849 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1850 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1852 Reply formatting cleanup
1853 ------------------------
1855 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1856 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1858 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1859 ========================
1861 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1863 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1864 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1865 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1866 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1869 Improved Build system portability
1871 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1872 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1873 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1875 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1877 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1879 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1881 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1882 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1883 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1885 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1886 ========================
1888 Vim interface improvements
1889 --------------------------
1891 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1893 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1894 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1895 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1896 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1897 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1899 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1901 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1902 * fix compose temp file name
1904 Python Bindings changes
1905 -----------------------
1907 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1909 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1910 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1912 Build-System improvements
1913 -------------------------
1915 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1917 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1920 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1921 ==========================
1926 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1928 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1929 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1931 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1932 =======================
1934 New, general features
1935 ---------------------
1937 Folder-based searching
1939 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1940 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1941 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1945 For example, one might use things such as:
1951 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1952 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1954 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1955 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1956 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1957 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1959 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1960 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1961 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1964 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1965 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1967 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1969 Support for PGP/MIME
1971 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1972 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1973 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1975 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1977 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1978 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1980 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1981 notmuch will receive these tags.
1983 New command-line features
1984 -------------------------
1986 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1988 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1989 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1991 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1993 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1994 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1995 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1997 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1999 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2000 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2001 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2002 which parts a signature part applies).
2004 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2006 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2007 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2008 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2009 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2010 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2013 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2015 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2016 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2017 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2018 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2019 by translating it internally to the new call.
2021 Performance improvements
2022 ------------------------
2024 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2026 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2027 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2028 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2030 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2031 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2033 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2035 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2036 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2037 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2039 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2040 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2041 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2042 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2044 Faster initial indexing
2046 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2047 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2048 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2050 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2052 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2053 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2054 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2055 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2057 New emacs-interface features
2058 ----------------------------
2060 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2062 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2063 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2064 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2065 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2066 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2067 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2069 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2071 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2072 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2073 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2074 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2076 User-selectable From address
2078 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2079 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2080 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2081 will prompt for the from address to use.
2083 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2084 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2085 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2087 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2088 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2089 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2092 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2094 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2095 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2097 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2099 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2101 ----- Original Message -----
2103 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2104 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2105 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2106 citations work much like conventional citations.
2108 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2110 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2111 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2112 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2113 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2114 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2116 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2117 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2119 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2121 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2122 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2123 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2125 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2127 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2128 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2129 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2130 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2131 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2133 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2135 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2138 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2140 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2142 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2144 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2147 Vim interface improvements
2148 --------------------------
2150 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2152 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2153 * Implementing archive in show view
2154 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2155 * Add delete commands
2158 Bindings improvements
2159 ---------------------
2161 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2163 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2164 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2166 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2168 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2172 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2173 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2174 `list(Messages)` works now
2175 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2177 These allow, for example:
2179 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2181 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2183 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2189 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2191 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2194 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2196 New build-system features
2197 -------------------------
2199 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2201 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2202 the configure script from some other directory:
2209 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2211 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2212 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2213 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2214 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2215 manual invocation of configure.
2217 New test-suite feature
2218 ----------------------
2220 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2222 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2223 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2224 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2225 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2226 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2229 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2231 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2232 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2233 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2234 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2235 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2236 are updated to take advantage of this.
2238 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2240 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2241 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2242 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2243 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2249 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2251 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2252 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2253 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2255 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2257 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2259 to:user@elsewhere.com
2261 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2263 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2265 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2267 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2268 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2269 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2272 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2273 from the Received headers in some cases
2275 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2276 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2278 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2280 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2282 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2284 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2285 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2286 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2288 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2289 -------------------------
2291 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2293 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2294 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2295 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2297 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2299 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2300 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2301 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2304 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2306 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2307 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2308 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2309 fixed to avoid this bug.
2311 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2313 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2314 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2316 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2317 ========================
2319 New, general features
2320 ---------------------
2322 Maildir-flag synchronization
2324 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2325 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2334 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2336 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2337 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2338 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2339 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2341 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2342 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2343 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2344 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2347 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2349 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2350 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2351 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2353 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2354 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2356 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2357 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2359 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2360 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2361 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2363 New library features
2364 --------------------
2366 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2368 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2369 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2370 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2371 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2373 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2374 message with the new function:
2376 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2378 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2379 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2380 over all available filenames for a given message.
2382 New command-line features
2383 -------------------------
2385 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2387 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2388 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2389 access to the mail store itself.
2391 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2392 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2393 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2394 name of a script containing:
2396 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2398 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2399 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2405 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2407 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2409 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2411 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2412 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2413 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2414 now produces nothing).
2416 Emacs interface improvements
2417 ----------------------------
2419 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2421 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2423 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2425 Display current thread subject in a header line
2427 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2429 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2431 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2432 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2433 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2434 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2435 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2436 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2437 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2439 Vim interface improvements
2440 --------------------------
2442 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2444 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2445 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2451 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2453 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2454 ========================
2456 New command-line features
2457 -------------------------
2459 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2461 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2462 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2463 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2465 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2466 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2467 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2468 scripts. For example:
2470 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2471 <operations-on> "$file"
2474 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2476 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2477 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2478 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2479 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2480 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2481 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2483 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2485 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2486 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2487 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2488 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2490 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2492 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2493 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2494 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2495 default rather than Bcc.
2497 New library features
2498 --------------------
2500 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2502 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2503 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2508 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2510 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2511 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2512 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2513 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2514 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2515 notmuch customize interface.
2517 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2519 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2520 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2521 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2522 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2524 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2526 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2527 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2528 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2529 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2531 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2533 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2534 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2535 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2536 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2537 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2538 notmuch customize interface.
2540 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2542 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2543 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2544 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2545 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2546 notmuch customize interface.
2548 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2550 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2551 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2552 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2553 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2556 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2558 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2559 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2560 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2563 New build-system features
2564 -------------------------
2566 Various portability fixes have been applied
2568 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2569 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2570 more portable than ever before.
2572 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2574 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2575 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2576 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2578 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2579 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2580 automatically run ldconfig.
2582 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2583 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2584 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2586 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2587 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2588 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2589 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2591 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2593 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2594 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2595 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2596 used in the resulting Makefile.
2598 New test-suite features
2599 -----------------------
2601 New modularization of test suite
2603 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2604 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2605 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2606 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2607 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2608 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2609 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2610 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2612 New testing of emacs interface
2614 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2615 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2616 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2617 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2618 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2619 database via the FCC setting.
2624 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2626 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2627 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2628 persistent error of the form:
2630 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2632 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2633 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2635 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2637 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2638 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2639 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2641 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2643 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2644 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2645 parsing the notmuch results).
2647 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2649 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2652 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2653 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2654 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2659 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2661 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2662 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2663 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2664 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2665 the emacs interface.
2667 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2669 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2670 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2671 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2673 Python-binding fixes
2674 --------------------
2676 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2678 Debian-specific fixes
2679 ---------------------
2681 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2683 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2684 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2685 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2688 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2689 ==========================
2694 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2696 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2697 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2698 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2699 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2701 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2703 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2704 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2705 want notmuch to crash.
2710 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2712 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2713 directory does not exist
2718 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2720 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2721 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2723 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2724 ========================
2726 New command-line features
2727 -------------------------
2729 User-configurable tags for new messages
2731 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2732 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2733 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2734 to specify this value.
2736 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2738 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2739 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2740 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2742 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2744 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2745 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2747 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2749 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2750 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2751 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2752 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2753 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2756 Indication of author names that match a search
2758 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2759 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2760 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2761 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2762 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2763 messages in the thread are listed first.
2765 New: Python bindings
2766 --------------------
2768 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2769 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2770 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2771 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2773 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2774 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2775 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2778 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2779 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2780 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2782 Emacs interface improvements
2783 ----------------------------
2785 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2787 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2788 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2789 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2790 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2791 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2792 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2793 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2794 but without any of the disadvantages).
2796 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2797 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2798 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2801 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2802 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2803 instead running something like:
2805 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2807 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2808 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2809 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2812 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2814 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2815 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2816 tweaked by the user.
2818 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2819 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2820 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2823 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2824 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2825 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2828 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2830 This support currently relies on an external program,
2831 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2832 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2833 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2834 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2835 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2838 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2839 notmuch) is available via:
2841 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2843 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2844 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2845 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2847 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2849 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2850 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2851 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2852 making this automatic in a future release.
2854 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2856 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2857 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2858 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2859 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2860 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2861 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2864 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2866 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2867 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2868 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2870 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2872 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2873 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2874 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2876 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2877 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2878 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2879 other representation.
2881 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2882 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2885 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2887 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2888 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2889 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2891 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2892 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2893 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2895 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2897 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2898 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2899 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2900 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2901 to display the search result.
2903 More flexible handling of header visibility
2905 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2906 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2907 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2908 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2909 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2910 with the 'h' keybinding.
2912 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2913 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2914 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2916 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2918 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2920 Customizable formatting of search results
2922 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2923 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2924 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2926 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2928 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2930 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2935 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2937 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2938 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2939 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2940 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2946 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2948 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2949 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2951 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2953 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2954 accept are now all accepted.
2959 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2961 Better display of output from failed tests
2963 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2964 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2966 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2967 ========================
2969 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2970 detailed release notes this time!
2972 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2973 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2975 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2976 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2977 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2978 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2985 Better guessing of From: header
2987 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2988 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2989 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2990 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2991 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2994 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2996 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2997 guaranteed to match all messages.
2999 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3001 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3002 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3003 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3004 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3005 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3008 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3011 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3012 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3013 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3014 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3019 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3021 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3022 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3023 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3024 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3026 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3028 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3030 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3031 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3032 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3034 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3036 Previously, the user might see:
3038 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3042 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3044 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3045 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3046 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3047 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3049 Emacs client features
3050 ---------------------
3052 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3054 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3055 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3056 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3057 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3058 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3060 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3063 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3064 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3065 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3066 search with the '*' binding.
3068 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3070 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3071 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3074 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3076 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3077 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3078 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3080 Build-system features
3081 ---------------------
3083 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3085 Add support to configure for many standard options
3087 We include actual support for:
3089 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3091 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3093 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3094 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3096 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3097 separate "make install-emacs"
3099 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3101 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3102 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3103 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3105 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3108 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3109 ========================
3111 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3113 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3114 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3116 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3117 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3118 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3119 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3120 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3121 tags from messages in a thread.
3128 indent-tabs-mode: nil