1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling notmuch_database_{open, create}
9 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
10 ===========================
15 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
17 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
18 ===========================
23 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64
25 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
26 =========================
28 Command-Line Interface
29 ----------------------
31 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
33 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
34 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
35 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
37 Path to gpg is now configurable
39 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
40 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
45 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
47 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
52 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
57 Support messages without Message-IDs.
62 Undeprecate single message mboxes
64 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
65 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
67 New error logging facility
69 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
70 output formerly printed to stderr.
72 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
74 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
76 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
78 Fix for rounding of seconds
83 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
85 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
86 docmumentation has been removed.
88 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
90 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
91 some material from the relicensed wiki.
96 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
97 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
98 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
103 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
104 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
105 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
106 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
107 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
108 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
111 git checkout config origin/config
113 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
115 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
116 =========================
121 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
122 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
123 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
124 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
125 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
126 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
127 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
129 Command-Line Interface
130 ----------------------
132 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
134 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
135 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
136 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
137 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
138 script callers should still check the return value.
140 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
142 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
143 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
144 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
145 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
146 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
147 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
148 and returning success even if indexing fails).
150 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
152 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
153 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
154 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
156 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
158 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
159 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
160 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
161 currently unmaintained.
163 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
165 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
166 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
167 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
168 have at least `N` files associated with them.
170 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
172 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
173 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
174 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
175 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
176 count of duplicate addresses.
181 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
183 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
184 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
185 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
188 Improved handling of the unread tag
190 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
191 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
192 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
193 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
194 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
195 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
196 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
198 Expanded default saved search settings
200 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
201 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
203 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
205 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
206 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
207 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
209 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
211 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
212 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
213 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
214 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
215 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
216 the variable for details.
221 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
223 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
224 Representing these independently of the database version number will
225 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
226 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
228 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
230 Previously, library users were required to call
231 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
232 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
233 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
234 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
235 too out of date for that API.
237 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
239 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
240 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
241 atomic section will be aborted.
243 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
244 `notmuch_database_destroy`
246 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
248 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
249 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
250 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
251 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
252 messages into the same thread.
257 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
258 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
259 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
260 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
261 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
262 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
267 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
268 from the config file. Use something like:
272 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
273 "footer": "</body></html>",
282 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
287 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
288 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
289 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
291 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
292 ===========================
297 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
299 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
301 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
303 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
304 structure for signatures changed slightly.
306 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
308 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
311 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
312 ===========================
314 This is a bug fix and portability release.
319 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
321 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
323 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
325 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
327 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
333 Use --quick when starting emacs
335 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
337 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
339 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
341 Command-Line Interface
342 ----------------------
344 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
345 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
350 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
352 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
353 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
355 Fix for phrase indexing
357 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
358 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
359 will affect only newly indexed messages.
364 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
366 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
367 unintentionally removed.
369 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
370 =========================
375 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
376 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
377 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
378 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
379 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
380 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
381 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
382 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
383 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
389 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
391 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
392 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
393 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
394 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
395 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
396 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
397 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
398 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
400 There is a new `path:` search prefix
402 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
403 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
404 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
405 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
408 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
410 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
411 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
412 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
413 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
414 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
415 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
416 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
421 Notmuch database upgrade
423 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
424 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
425 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
426 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
427 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
428 released version of Notmuch before now.
430 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
432 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
433 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
434 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
435 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
437 Message header parsing changes
439 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
440 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
441 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
442 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
443 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
444 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
446 Command-Line Interface
447 ----------------------
449 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
451 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
453 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
455 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
457 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
459 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
460 user does not want it.
462 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
464 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
465 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
466 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
467 support formatted output.
469 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
471 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
472 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
473 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
481 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
482 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
483 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
484 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
485 `~/.emacs` with these.
487 Changed format for saved searches
489 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
490 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
491 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
492 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
495 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
496 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
497 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
498 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
500 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
501 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
502 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
504 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
505 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
506 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
507 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
508 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
510 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
512 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
513 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
514 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
516 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
518 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
519 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
520 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
521 message had been unread).
523 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
524 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
525 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
526 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
528 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
529 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
530 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
532 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
533 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
534 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
535 to tags already present.
539 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
540 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
541 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
542 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
543 these differ from each other.
544 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
546 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
548 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
549 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
550 for these Emacs versions.
552 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
554 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
555 newlines before calling notmuch count.
557 Bug fixes for sender identities
559 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
560 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
561 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
563 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
565 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
566 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
567 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
568 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
570 Reply pushes mark before signature
572 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
573 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
574 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
576 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
578 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
579 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
585 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
586 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
588 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
589 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
590 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
591 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
593 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
594 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
595 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
596 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
597 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
599 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
601 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
602 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
604 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
605 =========================
607 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
608 ---------------------------------------
610 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
611 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
612 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
613 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
614 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
615 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
616 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
620 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
621 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
623 Command-Line Interface
624 ----------------------
626 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
628 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
629 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
630 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
631 print for each message.
633 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
634 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
635 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
636 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
638 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
640 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
641 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
642 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
644 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
646 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
647 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
648 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
649 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
651 `notmuch compact` command
653 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
654 functionality through a more convenient interface than
655 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
656 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
657 move the compacted database into place.
662 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
664 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
665 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
666 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
667 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
668 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
669 and multiple threads.
673 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
675 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
676 search, show and tree mode itself)
678 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
681 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
682 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
684 Customising `notmuch-tree`
686 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
687 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
688 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
689 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
690 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
691 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
692 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
694 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
696 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
697 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
698 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
699 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
700 thread when the search was performed.
702 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
704 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
705 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
706 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
708 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
710 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
711 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
714 Built-in help improvements
716 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
717 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
718 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
720 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
722 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
723 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
724 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
726 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
728 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
729 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
731 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
733 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
734 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
735 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
736 to move some of them to the common keymap.
738 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
740 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
741 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
742 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
743 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
745 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
747 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
748 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
749 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
751 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
753 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
754 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
755 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
757 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
759 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
760 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
761 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
762 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
763 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
765 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
767 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
768 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
769 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
770 the body part of the message.
775 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
776 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
777 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
779 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
780 =========================
782 Command-Line Interface
783 ----------------------
785 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
787 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
788 folder and notmuch index.
790 `notmuch count --batch` option
792 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
793 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
795 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
797 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
798 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
799 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
802 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
804 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
805 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
806 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
807 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
808 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
811 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
813 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
814 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
816 Top level option to specify configuration file
818 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
819 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
821 Bash command-line completion
823 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
824 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
825 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
826 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
827 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
828 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
829 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
830 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
831 bash-completion package.
833 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
838 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
840 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
841 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
842 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
843 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
844 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
845 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
846 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
847 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
849 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
851 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
852 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
853 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
855 Key bindings for next/previous thread
857 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
858 previous thread in the search results.
860 Better handling of errors in search buffers
862 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
863 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
865 Faster search and show
867 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
868 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
869 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
870 threads should show faster.
874 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
875 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
876 in question was now removed from this release.
881 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
882 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
887 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
889 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
890 ===========================
895 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
897 Internal test framework changes
898 -------------------------------
900 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
903 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
904 ===========================
906 Internal test framework changes
907 -------------------------------
909 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
910 build failures in non-interactive environments.
912 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
913 =========================
918 Date range search support
920 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
921 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
922 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
923 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
924 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
927 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
929 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
930 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
931 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
932 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
933 but may be removed in a future release.
935 Command-Line Interface
936 ----------------------
938 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
940 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
941 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
943 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
945 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
946 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
947 officially deprecated.
949 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
951 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
952 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
953 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
955 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
957 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
958 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
961 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
962 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
965 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
967 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
968 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
969 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
971 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
973 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
974 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
975 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
977 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
979 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
980 output separated by null characters rather than newline
981 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
982 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
987 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
989 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
990 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
991 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
992 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
994 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
996 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
997 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
998 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
999 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1000 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1001 the behavior of this, see
1002 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1003 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1005 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1006 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1007 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1009 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1011 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1012 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1015 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1017 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1018 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1019 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1020 simply displayed in place of the message.
1022 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1024 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1025 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1027 Improved text/calendar content handling
1029 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1030 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1031 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1032 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1034 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1036 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1037 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1038 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1039 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1041 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1043 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1044 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1045 for HTML email containing images.
1047 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1049 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1051 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1053 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1056 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1058 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1059 the point where it was.
1061 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1063 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1064 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1065 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1066 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1067 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1069 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1071 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1072 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1073 thread instead of the message id.
1075 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1076 -----------------------------
1078 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1079 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1080 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1081 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1082 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1083 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1084 further details and installation.
1089 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1091 Internal test framework changes
1092 -------------------------------
1094 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1096 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1097 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1098 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1099 can result in buggy behavior.
1101 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1102 =========================
1107 Maildir tag synchronization
1109 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1110 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1111 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1112 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1113 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1114 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1117 Command-Line Interface
1118 ----------------------
1120 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1121 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1122 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1123 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1124 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1130 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1132 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1134 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1135 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1136 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1138 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1140 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1141 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1142 span multiple lines.
1144 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1146 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1147 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1148 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1149 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1150 inside the result or message.
1152 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1154 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1155 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1157 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1158 user-specified formatting
1160 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1161 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1162 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1163 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1164 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1166 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1167 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1169 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1170 ===========================
1175 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1176 compilation error for this contrib package.
1178 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1179 ===========================
1184 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1186 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1187 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1188 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1189 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1191 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1192 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1195 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1196 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1197 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1198 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1201 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1203 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1206 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1207 =========================
1209 Command-Line Interface
1210 ----------------------
1214 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1215 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1216 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1217 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1219 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1220 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1221 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1222 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1226 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1227 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1229 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1230 tag in your query, for example:
1232 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1234 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1235 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1237 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1238 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1240 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1242 Raw show format changes
1244 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1245 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1246 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1247 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1248 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1249 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1250 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1251 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1253 Listing configuration items
1255 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1261 Changes to tagging interface
1263 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1264 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1265 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1266 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1267 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1268 for more information.
1270 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1271 may need to update in custom configurations.
1273 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1275 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1276 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1277 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1278 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1281 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1282 -----------------------------
1284 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1285 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1286 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1287 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1288 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1289 contrib/ from now on.
1294 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1295 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1297 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1298 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1300 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1301 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1302 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1304 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1305 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1307 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1308 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1309 returning the new database object or directory object.
1316 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1317 compatible with go 1.
1319 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1320 =========================
1322 Command-Line Interface
1323 ----------------------
1327 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1328 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1329 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1330 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1332 Mail store folder/file ignore
1334 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1335 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1336 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1338 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1339 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1341 Unified help and manual pages
1343 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1344 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1347 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1349 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1350 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1358 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1359 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1360 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1361 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1363 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1365 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1366 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1368 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1371 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1372 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1373 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1375 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1377 should be changed to:
1379 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1381 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1383 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1384 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1386 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1388 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1389 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1390 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1391 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1392 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1393 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1397 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1398 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1399 of Mailing List Archives.
1401 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1403 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1404 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1407 Show view archiving key binding changes
1409 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1410 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1411 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1412 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1413 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1416 Support text/calendar MIME type
1418 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1421 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1423 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1424 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1425 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1426 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1428 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1430 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1431 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1432 messages blue by default in the search view.
1436 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1437 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1444 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1447 Python bindings changes
1448 -----------------------
1450 Python 3.2 compatibility
1452 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1454 Added missing unicode conversions
1456 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1457 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1458 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1463 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1465 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1466 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1467 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1468 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1469 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1471 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1472 ===========================
1477 Fix error handling in python bindings
1479 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1480 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1481 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1482 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1484 Quote MML tags in replies
1486 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1487 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1488 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1489 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1490 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1491 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1492 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1493 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1495 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1496 =========================
1498 Command-Line Interface
1499 ----------------------
1503 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1504 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1505 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1506 importing new messages into the database.
1508 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1510 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1511 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1512 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1517 Automatic tag query optimization
1519 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1520 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1521 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1523 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1525 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1526 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1527 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1532 Reduction of memory leaks
1534 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1535 and fixed in this release.
1542 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1543 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1544 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1547 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1549 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1550 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1551 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1554 Improvements in saved search management
1556 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1557 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1558 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1560 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1562 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1563 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1564 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1566 New face for crypto parts headers
1568 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1569 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1570 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1573 Use space as default thousands separator
1575 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1576 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1577 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1579 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1580 buttonized id: links
1582 New function notmuch-show-advance
1584 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1585 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1586 be bound to SPC with:
1588 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1590 Various performance improvements
1595 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1596 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1599 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1600 ===========================
1605 Fix crash in python bindings
1607 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1608 for some, but not all users.
1610 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1611 ===========================
1616 Fix `--help` argument
1618 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1619 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1620 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1622 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1623 =========================
1625 New build and testing features
1626 ------------------------------
1628 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1629 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1630 prerequisites is improved.
1632 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1634 New command-line features
1635 -------------------------
1637 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1639 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1640 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1643 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1645 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1646 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1647 favour of using stdout.
1649 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1651 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1652 limit the number of results shown.
1654 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1656 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1657 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1660 New emacs UI features
1661 ---------------------
1663 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1665 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1666 starting with "tag:".
1668 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1670 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1671 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1673 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1675 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1677 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1679 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1680 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1685 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1687 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1689 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1690 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1691 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1692 requires a database rebuild:
1694 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1695 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1697 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1699 New collection of add-on tools
1700 ------------------------------
1702 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1703 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1704 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1707 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1709 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1710 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1711 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1713 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1714 ========================
1716 New, general features
1717 ---------------------
1719 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1721 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1722 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1723 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1724 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1725 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1732 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1733 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1735 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1739 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1740 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1741 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1744 Python bindings changes
1745 -----------------------
1747 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1749 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1750 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1751 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1752 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1753 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1754 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1756 Ruby bindings changes
1757 ---------------------
1759 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1760 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1761 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1762 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1767 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1769 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1770 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1772 Reply formatting cleanup
1773 ------------------------
1775 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1776 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1778 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1779 ========================
1781 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1783 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1784 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1785 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1786 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1789 Improved Build system portability
1791 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1792 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1793 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1795 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1797 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1799 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1801 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1802 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1803 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1805 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1806 ========================
1808 Vim interface improvements
1809 --------------------------
1811 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1813 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1814 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1815 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1816 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1817 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1819 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1821 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1822 * fix compose temp file name
1824 Python Bindings changes
1825 -----------------------
1827 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1829 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1830 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1832 Build-System improvements
1833 -------------------------
1835 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1837 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1840 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1841 ==========================
1846 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1848 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1849 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1851 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1852 =======================
1854 New, general features
1855 ---------------------
1857 Folder-based searching
1859 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1860 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1861 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1865 For example, one might use things such as:
1871 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1872 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1874 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1875 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1876 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1877 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1879 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1880 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1881 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1884 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1885 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1887 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1889 Support for PGP/MIME
1891 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1892 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1893 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1895 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1897 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1898 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1900 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1901 notmuch will receive these tags.
1903 New command-line features
1904 -------------------------
1906 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1908 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1909 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1911 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1913 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1914 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1915 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1917 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1919 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1920 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1921 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1922 which parts a signature part applies).
1924 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1926 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1927 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1928 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1929 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1930 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1933 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1935 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1936 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1937 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1938 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1939 by translating it internally to the new call.
1941 Performance improvements
1942 ------------------------
1944 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1946 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1947 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1948 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1950 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1951 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1953 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1955 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1956 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1957 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1959 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1960 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1961 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1962 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1964 Faster initial indexing
1966 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1967 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1968 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1970 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1972 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1973 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1974 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1975 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1977 New emacs-interface features
1978 ----------------------------
1980 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1982 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1983 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1984 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1985 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1986 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1987 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1989 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1991 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1992 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1993 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1994 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1996 User-selectable From address
1998 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1999 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2000 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2001 will prompt for the from address to use.
2003 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2004 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2005 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2007 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2008 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2009 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2012 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2014 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2015 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2017 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2019 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2021 ----- Original Message -----
2023 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2024 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2025 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2026 citations work much like conventional citations.
2028 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2030 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2031 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2032 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2033 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2034 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2036 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2037 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2039 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2041 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2042 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2043 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2045 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2047 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2048 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2049 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2050 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2051 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2053 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2055 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2058 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2060 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2062 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2064 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2067 Vim interface improvements
2068 --------------------------
2070 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2072 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2073 * Implementing archive in show view
2074 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2075 * Add delete commands
2078 Bindings improvements
2079 ---------------------
2081 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2083 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2084 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2086 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2088 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2092 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2093 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2094 `list(Messages)` works now
2095 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2097 These allow, for example:
2099 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2101 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2103 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2109 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2111 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2114 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2116 New build-system features
2117 -------------------------
2119 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2121 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2122 the configure script from some other directory:
2129 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2131 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2132 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2133 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2134 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2135 manual invocation of configure.
2137 New test-suite feature
2138 ----------------------
2140 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2142 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2143 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2144 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2145 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2146 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2149 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2151 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2152 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2153 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2154 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2155 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2156 are updated to take advantage of this.
2158 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2160 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2161 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2162 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2163 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2169 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2171 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2172 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2173 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2175 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2177 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2179 to:user@elsewhere.com
2181 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2183 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2185 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2187 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2188 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2189 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2192 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2193 from the Received headers in some cases
2195 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2196 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2198 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2200 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2202 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2204 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2205 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2206 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2208 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2209 -------------------------
2211 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2213 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2214 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2215 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2217 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2219 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2220 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2221 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2224 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2226 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2227 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2228 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2229 fixed to avoid this bug.
2231 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2233 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2234 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2236 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2237 ========================
2239 New, general features
2240 ---------------------
2242 Maildir-flag synchronization
2244 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2245 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2254 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2256 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2257 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2258 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2259 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2261 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2262 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2263 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2264 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2267 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2269 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2270 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2271 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2273 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2274 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2276 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2277 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2279 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2280 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2281 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2283 New library features
2284 --------------------
2286 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2288 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2289 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2290 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2291 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2293 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2294 message with the new function:
2296 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2298 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2299 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2300 over all available filenames for a given message.
2302 New command-line features
2303 -------------------------
2305 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2307 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2308 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2309 access to the mail store itself.
2311 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2312 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2313 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2314 name of a script containing:
2316 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2318 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2319 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2325 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2327 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2329 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2331 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2332 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2333 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2334 now produces nothing).
2336 Emacs interface improvements
2337 ----------------------------
2339 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2341 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2343 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2345 Display current thread subject in a header line
2347 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2349 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2351 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2352 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2353 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2354 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2355 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2356 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2357 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2359 Vim interface improvements
2360 --------------------------
2362 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2364 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2365 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2371 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2373 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2374 ========================
2376 New command-line features
2377 -------------------------
2379 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2381 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2382 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2383 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2385 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2386 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2387 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2388 scripts. For example:
2390 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2391 <operations-on> "$file"
2394 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2396 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2397 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2398 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2399 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2400 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2401 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2403 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2405 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2406 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2407 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2408 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2410 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2412 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2413 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2414 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2415 default rather than Bcc.
2417 New library features
2418 --------------------
2420 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2422 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2423 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2428 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2430 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2431 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2432 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2433 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2434 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2435 notmuch customize interface.
2437 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2439 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2440 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2441 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2442 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2444 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2446 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2447 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2448 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2449 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2451 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2453 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2454 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2455 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2456 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2457 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2458 notmuch customize interface.
2460 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2462 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2463 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2464 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2465 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2466 notmuch customize interface.
2468 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2470 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2471 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2472 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2473 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2476 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2478 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2479 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2480 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2483 New build-system features
2484 -------------------------
2486 Various portability fixes have been applied
2488 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2489 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2490 more portable than ever before.
2492 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2494 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2495 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2496 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2498 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2499 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2500 automatically run ldconfig.
2502 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2503 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2504 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2506 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2507 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2508 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2509 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2511 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2513 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2514 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2515 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2516 used in the resulting Makefile.
2518 New test-suite features
2519 -----------------------
2521 New modularization of test suite
2523 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2524 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2525 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2526 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2527 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2528 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2529 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2530 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2532 New testing of emacs interface
2534 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2535 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2536 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2537 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2538 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2539 database via the FCC setting.
2544 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2546 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2547 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2548 persistent error of the form:
2550 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2552 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2553 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2555 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2557 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2558 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2559 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2561 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2563 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2564 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2565 parsing the notmuch results).
2567 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2569 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2572 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2573 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2574 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2579 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2581 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2582 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2583 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2584 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2585 the emacs interface.
2587 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2589 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2590 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2591 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2593 Python-binding fixes
2594 --------------------
2596 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2598 Debian-specific fixes
2599 ---------------------
2601 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2603 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2604 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2605 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2608 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2609 ==========================
2614 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2616 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2617 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2618 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2619 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2621 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2623 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2624 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2625 want notmuch to crash.
2630 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2632 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2633 directory does not exist
2638 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2640 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2641 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2643 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2644 ========================
2646 New command-line features
2647 -------------------------
2649 User-configurable tags for new messages
2651 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2652 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2653 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2654 to specify this value.
2656 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2658 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2659 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2660 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2662 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2664 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2665 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2667 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2669 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2670 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2671 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2672 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2673 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2676 Indication of author names that match a search
2678 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2679 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2680 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2681 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2682 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2683 messages in the thread are listed first.
2685 New: Python bindings
2686 --------------------
2688 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2689 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2690 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2691 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2693 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2694 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2695 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2698 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2699 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2700 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2702 Emacs interface improvements
2703 ----------------------------
2705 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2707 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2708 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2709 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2710 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2711 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2712 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2713 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2714 but without any of the disadvantages).
2716 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2717 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2718 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2721 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2722 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2723 instead running something like:
2725 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2727 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2728 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2729 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2732 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2734 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2735 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2736 tweaked by the user.
2738 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2739 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2740 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2743 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2744 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2745 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2748 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2750 This support currently relies on an external program,
2751 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2752 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2753 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2754 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2755 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2758 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2759 notmuch) is available via:
2761 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2763 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2764 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2765 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2767 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2769 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2770 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2771 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2772 making this automatic in a future release.
2774 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2776 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2777 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2778 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2779 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2780 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2781 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2784 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2786 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2787 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2788 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2790 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2792 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2793 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2794 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2796 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2797 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2798 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2799 other representation.
2801 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2802 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2805 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2807 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2808 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2809 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2811 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2812 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2813 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2815 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2817 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2818 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2819 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2820 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2821 to display the search result.
2823 More flexible handling of header visibility
2825 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2826 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2827 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2828 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2829 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2830 with the 'h' keybinding.
2832 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2833 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2834 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2836 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2838 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2840 Customizable formatting of search results
2842 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2843 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2844 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2846 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2848 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2850 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2855 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2857 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2858 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2859 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2860 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2866 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2868 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2869 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2871 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2873 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2874 accept are now all accepted.
2879 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2881 Better display of output from failed tests
2883 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2884 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2886 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2887 ========================
2889 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2890 detailed release notes this time!
2892 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2893 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2895 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2896 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2897 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2898 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2905 Better guessing of From: header
2907 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2908 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2909 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2910 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2911 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2914 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2916 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2917 guaranteed to match all messages.
2919 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2921 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2922 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2923 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2924 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2925 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2928 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2931 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2932 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2933 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2934 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2939 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2941 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2942 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2943 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2944 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2946 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2948 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2950 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2951 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2952 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2954 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2956 Previously, the user might see:
2958 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2962 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2964 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2965 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2966 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2967 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2969 Emacs client features
2970 ---------------------
2972 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2974 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2975 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2976 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2977 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2978 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2980 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2983 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2984 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2985 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2986 search with the '*' binding.
2988 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2990 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2991 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2994 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2996 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2997 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2998 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3000 Build-system features
3001 ---------------------
3003 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3005 Add support to configure for many standard options
3007 We include actual support for:
3009 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3011 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3013 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3014 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3016 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3017 separate "make install-emacs"
3019 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3021 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3022 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3023 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3025 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3028 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3029 ========================
3031 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3033 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3034 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3036 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3037 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3038 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3039 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3040 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3041 tags from messages in a thread.
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