1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Support for re-indexing existing messages
9 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
10 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
11 change the way specific messages are indexed.
13 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
14 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
15 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
17 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
19 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
21 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
23 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
24 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
25 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
26 the setting of `new.tags`.
28 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
30 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
32 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
34 This inserts into the top level folder.
36 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
38 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
40 New option --output=address for notmuch address
42 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
44 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
46 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
47 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
48 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
50 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
55 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
57 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
58 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
59 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
60 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
61 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
62 config set index.decrypt true".
64 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
65 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
66 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
67 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
68 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
69 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
70 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
71 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
73 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
74 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
75 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
76 this feature without considering the security of your index.
81 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
83 Use make-process when available
85 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
86 notmuch command without using temporary files.
91 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
93 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
94 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
95 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
96 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
98 New functions to count files
100 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
101 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
103 New function to remove properties
105 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
106 drop all properties with a common pattern:
107 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
109 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
111 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
112 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
113 possibility of NULL was not documented.
115 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
117 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
118 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
119 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
120 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
121 operator may decide to change from message to message.
128 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
129 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
130 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
136 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
138 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
139 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
141 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
143 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
145 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
147 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
152 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
153 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
155 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
156 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
157 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
158 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
159 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
160 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
165 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
167 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
168 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
169 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
170 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
172 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
173 ===========================
178 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
179 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
182 Command Line Interface
183 ----------------------
185 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
186 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
189 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
190 ===========================
192 Command Line Interface
193 ----------------------
195 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
196 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
201 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
204 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
205 ===========================
210 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
213 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
214 =========================
219 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
221 Skip HTML tags when indexing
223 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
225 Command Line Interface
226 ----------------------
228 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
230 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
235 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
237 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
238 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
241 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
246 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
248 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
249 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
251 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
253 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
254 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
257 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
259 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
261 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
263 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
264 ===========================
266 Command Line Interface
267 ----------------------
269 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
274 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
276 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
277 ===========================
282 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
284 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
285 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
288 Command Line Interface
289 ----------------------
291 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
293 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
295 Fix bug in dump header
297 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
298 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
299 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
304 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
306 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
307 =========================
312 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
314 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
317 Command Line Interface
318 ----------------------
320 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
322 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
323 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
324 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
326 New default output format to 3
328 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
329 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
330 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
331 default format changes.
336 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
338 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
339 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
340 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
341 or tree view to resume.
343 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
344 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
345 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
348 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
349 they were when you postponed in the final message.
353 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
354 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
355 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
356 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
357 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
361 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
362 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
363 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
364 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
365 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
366 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
370 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
371 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
373 Stop display of `application/*` parts
375 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
376 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
377 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
378 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
379 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
380 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
381 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
382 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
385 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
387 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
388 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
389 only tagged the current thread.)
391 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
393 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
394 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
395 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
397 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
399 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
400 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
401 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
402 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
403 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
404 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
405 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
407 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
409 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
410 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
411 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
416 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
418 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
421 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
423 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
426 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
427 ===========================
432 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
434 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
435 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
436 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
439 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
440 ===========================
442 Command Line Interface
443 ----------------------
445 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
450 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
452 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
453 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
454 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
456 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
457 ===========================
462 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
463 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
465 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
466 ===========================
468 Command Line Interface
469 ----------------------
471 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
473 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
474 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
475 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
480 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
482 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
483 ===========================
485 Command Line Interface
486 ----------------------
488 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
493 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
495 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
496 ===========================
501 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
503 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
504 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
505 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
507 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
509 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
511 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
512 ===========================
517 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
519 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
524 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
526 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
527 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
528 the original colours.
530 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
531 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
533 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
535 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
536 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
537 bug, and hence the test.
539 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
540 =========================
542 General (Xapian 1.4+)
543 ---------------------
545 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
547 Support for single argument date: queries
549 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
551 Support for blocking opens
553 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
554 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
556 Support for named queries
558 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
559 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
560 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
567 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
568 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
569 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
570 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
572 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
574 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
579 Support for compile time options
581 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
582 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
585 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
587 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
588 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
589 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
590 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
591 scripts to ignore it.
596 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
598 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
599 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
600 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
602 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
603 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
604 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
605 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
606 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
607 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
608 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
610 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
611 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
614 Make internal address completion customizable
616 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
617 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
618 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
619 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
622 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
624 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
625 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
626 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
627 completion for the current buffer.
629 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
630 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
631 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
635 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
636 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
637 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
638 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
639 will be added instead.
641 Face customization is easier
643 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
644 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
645 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
646 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
648 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
653 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
658 Go bindings moved to contrib
660 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
662 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
664 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
665 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
667 The same issue occured with sort modes.
669 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
670 ===========================
677 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
678 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
680 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
682 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
684 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
685 ===========================
690 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
692 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
697 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
702 Use `env` to locate perl.
707 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
709 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
711 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
713 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
715 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
716 =========================
723 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
724 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
726 Limited support for S/MIME messages
728 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
729 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
730 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
735 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
736 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
737 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
739 Command Line Interface
740 ----------------------
742 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
744 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
749 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
754 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
756 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
757 parts are now included in replies.
759 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
760 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
761 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
762 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
764 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
766 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
768 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
770 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
771 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
772 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
773 forwards only the current message.
775 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
777 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
778 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
779 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
780 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
781 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
782 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
783 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
784 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
787 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
788 longer generate empty buffers
790 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
791 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
792 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
793 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
794 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
796 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
798 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
801 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
803 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
806 Address completion improvements
808 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
809 you previously configured one, customize the variable
810 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
811 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
812 interactive address completion.
814 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
816 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
817 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
818 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
823 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
824 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
825 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
831 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
832 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
833 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
834 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
835 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
836 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
838 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
839 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
840 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
841 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
842 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
843 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
845 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
846 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
848 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
849 =========================
854 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
857 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
859 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
860 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
861 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
863 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
864 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
866 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
867 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
868 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
870 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
872 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
873 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
874 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
875 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
876 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
877 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
882 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
883 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
886 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
889 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
891 Command Line Interface
892 ----------------------
894 Database revision tracking
896 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
897 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
898 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
899 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
901 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
903 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
904 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
905 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
906 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
907 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
908 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
909 manual page for further information.
914 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
916 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
917 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
919 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
921 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
922 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
923 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
925 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
927 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
929 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
930 customization as well.
932 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
934 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
936 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
938 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
940 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
941 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
942 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
943 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
945 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
947 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
948 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
949 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
950 this variable to 10000.
955 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
956 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
958 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
960 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
961 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
962 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
963 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
964 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
965 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
966 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
967 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
968 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
971 Database revision tracking
973 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
974 query parser and the new function
975 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
977 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
981 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
982 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
983 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
984 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
989 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
991 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
992 ===========================
997 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
999 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1000 ===========================
1005 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1007 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1008 =========================
1010 Command-Line Interface
1011 ----------------------
1013 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1015 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1016 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1017 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1019 Path to gpg is now configurable
1021 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1022 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1027 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
1029 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1034 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1039 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1044 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1046 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1047 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1049 New error logging facility
1051 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1052 output formerly printed to stderr.
1054 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1056 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1058 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1060 Fix for rounding of seconds
1065 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1067 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1068 docmumentation has been removed.
1070 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1072 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1073 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1078 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1079 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1080 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1085 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1086 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1087 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1088 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1089 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1090 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1093 git checkout config origin/config
1095 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1097 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1098 =========================
1103 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1104 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1105 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1106 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1107 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1108 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1109 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1111 Command-Line Interface
1112 ----------------------
1114 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1116 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1117 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1118 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1119 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1120 script callers should still check the return value.
1122 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1124 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1125 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1126 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1127 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1128 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1129 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1130 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1132 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1134 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1135 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1136 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1138 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1140 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1141 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1142 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1143 currently unmaintained.
1145 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1147 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1148 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1149 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1150 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1152 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1154 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1155 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1156 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1157 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1158 count of duplicate addresses.
1163 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1165 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1166 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1167 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1170 Improved handling of the unread tag
1172 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1173 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1174 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1175 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1176 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1177 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1178 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1180 Expanded default saved search settings
1182 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1183 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1185 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1187 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1188 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1189 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1191 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1193 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1194 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1195 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1196 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1197 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1198 the variable for details.
1203 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1205 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1206 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1207 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1208 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1210 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1212 Previously, library users were required to call
1213 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1214 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1215 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1216 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1217 too out of date for that API.
1219 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1221 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1222 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1223 atomic section will be aborted.
1225 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1226 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1228 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1230 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1231 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1232 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1233 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1234 messages into the same thread.
1239 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1240 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1241 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1242 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1243 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1244 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1249 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1250 from the config file. Use something like:
1254 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1255 "footer": "</body></html>",
1264 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1269 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1270 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1271 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1273 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1274 ===========================
1279 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1281 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1283 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1285 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1286 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1288 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1290 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1293 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1294 ===========================
1296 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1301 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1303 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1305 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1307 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1309 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1315 Use --quick when starting emacs
1317 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1319 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1321 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1323 Command-Line Interface
1324 ----------------------
1326 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1327 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1332 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1334 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1335 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1337 Fix for phrase indexing
1339 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1340 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1341 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1346 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1348 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1349 unintentionally removed.
1351 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1352 =========================
1357 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1358 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1359 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1360 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1361 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1362 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1363 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1364 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1365 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1371 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1373 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1374 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1375 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1376 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1377 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1378 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1379 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1380 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1382 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1384 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1385 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1386 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1387 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1390 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1392 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1393 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1394 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1395 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1396 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1397 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1398 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1403 Notmuch database upgrade
1405 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1406 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1407 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1408 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1409 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1410 released version of Notmuch before now.
1412 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1414 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1415 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1416 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1417 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1419 Message header parsing changes
1421 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1422 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1423 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1424 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1425 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1426 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1428 Command-Line Interface
1429 ----------------------
1431 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1433 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1435 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1437 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1439 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1441 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1442 user does not want it.
1444 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1446 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1447 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1448 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1449 support formatted output.
1451 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1453 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1454 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1455 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1463 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1464 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1465 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1466 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1467 `~/.emacs` with these.
1469 Changed format for saved searches
1471 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1472 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1473 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1474 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1477 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1478 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1479 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1480 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1482 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1483 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1484 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1486 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1487 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1488 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1489 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1490 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1492 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1494 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1495 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1496 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1498 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1500 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1501 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1502 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1503 message had been unread).
1505 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1506 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1507 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1508 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1510 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1511 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1512 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1514 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1515 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1516 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1517 to tags already present.
1521 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1522 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1523 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1524 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1525 these differ from each other.
1526 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1528 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1530 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1531 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1532 for these Emacs versions.
1534 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1536 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1537 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1539 Bug fixes for sender identities
1541 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1542 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1543 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1545 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1547 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1548 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1549 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1550 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1552 Reply pushes mark before signature
1554 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1555 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1556 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1558 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1560 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1561 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1567 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1568 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1570 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1571 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1572 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1573 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1575 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1576 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1577 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1578 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1579 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1581 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1583 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1584 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1586 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1587 =========================
1589 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1590 ---------------------------------------
1592 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1593 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1594 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1595 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1596 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1597 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1598 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1602 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1603 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1605 Command-Line Interface
1606 ----------------------
1608 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1610 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1611 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1612 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1613 print for each message.
1615 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1616 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1617 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1618 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1620 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1622 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1623 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1624 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1626 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1628 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1629 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1630 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1631 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1633 `notmuch compact` command
1635 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1636 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1637 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1638 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1639 move the compacted database into place.
1644 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1646 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1647 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1648 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1649 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1650 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1651 and multiple threads.
1653 Using `notmuch-tree`
1655 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1657 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1658 search, show and tree mode itself)
1660 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1663 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1664 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1666 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1668 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1669 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1670 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1671 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1672 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1673 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1674 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1676 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1678 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1679 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1680 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1681 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1682 thread when the search was performed.
1684 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1686 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1687 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1688 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1690 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1692 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1693 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1696 Built-in help improvements
1698 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1699 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1700 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1702 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1704 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1705 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1706 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1708 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1710 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1711 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1713 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1715 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1716 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1717 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1718 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1720 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1722 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1723 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1724 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1725 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1727 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1729 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1730 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1731 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1733 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1735 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1736 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1737 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1739 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1741 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1742 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1743 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1744 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1745 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1747 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1749 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1750 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1751 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1752 the body part of the message.
1757 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1758 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1759 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1761 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1762 =========================
1764 Command-Line Interface
1765 ----------------------
1767 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1769 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1770 folder and notmuch index.
1772 `notmuch count --batch` option
1774 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1775 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1777 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1779 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1780 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1781 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1784 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1786 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1787 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1788 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1789 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1790 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1793 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1795 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1796 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1798 Top level option to specify configuration file
1800 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1801 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1803 Bash command-line completion
1805 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1806 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1807 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1808 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1809 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1810 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1811 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1812 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1813 bash-completion package.
1815 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1820 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1822 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1823 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1824 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1825 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1826 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1827 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1828 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1829 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1831 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1833 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1834 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1835 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1837 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1839 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1840 previous thread in the search results.
1842 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1844 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1845 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1847 Faster search and show
1849 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1850 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1851 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1852 threads should show faster.
1856 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1857 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1858 in question was now removed from this release.
1863 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1864 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1869 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1871 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1872 ===========================
1877 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1879 Internal test framework changes
1880 -------------------------------
1882 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1883 being unimplemented.
1885 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1886 ===========================
1888 Internal test framework changes
1889 -------------------------------
1891 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1892 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1894 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1895 =========================
1900 Date range search support
1902 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1903 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1904 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1905 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1906 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1909 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1911 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1912 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1913 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1914 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1915 but may be removed in a future release.
1917 Command-Line Interface
1918 ----------------------
1920 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1922 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1923 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1925 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1927 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1928 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1929 officially deprecated.
1931 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1933 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1934 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1935 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1937 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1939 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1940 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1943 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1944 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1945 dump/restore format.
1947 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1949 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1950 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1951 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1953 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1955 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1956 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1957 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1959 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1961 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1962 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1963 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1964 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1969 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1971 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1972 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1973 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1974 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1976 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1978 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1979 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1980 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1981 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1982 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1983 the behavior of this, see
1984 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1985 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1987 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1988 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1989 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1991 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1993 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1994 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1997 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1999 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2000 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2001 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2002 simply displayed in place of the message.
2004 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2006 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2007 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2009 Improved text/calendar content handling
2011 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2012 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2013 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2014 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2016 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2018 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2019 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2020 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2021 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2023 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2025 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2026 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2027 for HTML email containing images.
2029 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2031 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2033 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2035 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2038 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2040 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2041 the point where it was.
2043 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2045 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2046 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2047 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2048 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2049 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2051 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2053 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2054 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2055 thread instead of the message id.
2057 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2058 -----------------------------
2060 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2061 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2062 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2063 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2064 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2065 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2066 further details and installation.
2071 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2073 Internal test framework changes
2074 -------------------------------
2076 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2078 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2079 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2080 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2081 can result in buggy behavior.
2083 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2084 =========================
2089 Maildir tag synchronization
2091 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2092 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2093 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2094 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2095 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2096 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2099 Command-Line Interface
2100 ----------------------
2102 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2103 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2104 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2105 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2106 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2112 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2114 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2116 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2117 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2118 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2120 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2122 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2123 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2124 span multiple lines.
2126 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2128 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2129 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2130 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2131 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2132 inside the result or message.
2134 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2136 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2137 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2139 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2140 user-specified formatting
2142 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2143 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2144 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2145 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2146 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2148 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2149 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2151 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2152 ===========================
2157 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2158 compilation error for this contrib package.
2160 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2161 ===========================
2166 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2168 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2169 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2170 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2171 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2173 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2174 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2177 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2178 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2179 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2180 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2183 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2185 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2188 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2189 =========================
2191 Command-Line Interface
2192 ----------------------
2196 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2197 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2198 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2199 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2201 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2202 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2203 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2204 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2208 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2209 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2211 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2212 tag in your query, for example:
2214 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2216 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2217 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2219 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2220 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2222 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2224 Raw show format changes
2226 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2227 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2228 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2229 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2230 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2231 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2232 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2233 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2235 Listing configuration items
2237 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2243 Changes to tagging interface
2245 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2246 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2247 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2248 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2249 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2250 for more information.
2252 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2253 may need to update in custom configurations.
2255 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2257 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2258 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2259 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2260 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2263 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2264 -----------------------------
2266 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2267 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2268 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2269 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2270 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2271 contrib/ from now on.
2276 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2277 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2279 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2280 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2282 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2283 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2284 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2286 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2287 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2289 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2290 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2291 returning the new database object or directory object.
2298 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2299 compatible with go 1.
2301 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2302 =========================
2304 Command-Line Interface
2305 ----------------------
2309 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2310 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2311 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2312 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2314 Mail store folder/file ignore
2316 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2317 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2318 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2320 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2321 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2323 Unified help and manual pages
2325 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2326 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2329 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2331 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2332 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2340 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2341 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2342 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2343 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2345 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2347 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2348 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2350 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2353 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2354 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2355 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2357 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2359 should be changed to:
2361 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2363 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2365 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2366 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2368 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2370 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2371 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2372 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2373 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2374 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2375 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2379 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2380 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2381 of Mailing List Archives.
2383 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2385 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2386 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2389 Show view archiving key binding changes
2391 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2392 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2393 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2394 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2395 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2398 Support text/calendar MIME type
2400 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2403 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2405 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2406 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2407 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2408 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2410 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2412 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2413 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2414 messages blue by default in the search view.
2418 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2419 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2426 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2429 Python bindings changes
2430 -----------------------
2432 Python 3.2 compatibility
2434 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2436 Added missing unicode conversions
2438 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2439 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2440 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2445 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2447 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2448 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2449 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2450 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2451 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2453 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2454 ===========================
2459 Fix error handling in python bindings
2461 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2462 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2463 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2464 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2466 Quote MML tags in replies
2468 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2469 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2470 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2471 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2472 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2473 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2474 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2475 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2477 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2478 =========================
2480 Command-Line Interface
2481 ----------------------
2485 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2486 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2487 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2488 importing new messages into the database.
2490 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2492 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2493 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2494 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2499 Automatic tag query optimization
2501 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2502 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2503 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2505 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2507 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2508 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2509 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2514 Reduction of memory leaks
2516 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2517 and fixed in this release.
2524 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2525 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2526 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2529 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2531 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2532 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2533 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2536 Improvements in saved search management
2538 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2539 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2540 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2542 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2544 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2545 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2546 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2548 New face for crypto parts headers
2550 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2551 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2552 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2555 Use space as default thousands separator
2557 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2558 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2559 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2561 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2562 buttonized id: links
2564 New function notmuch-show-advance
2566 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2567 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2568 be bound to SPC with:
2570 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2572 Various performance improvements
2577 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2578 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2581 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2582 ===========================
2587 Fix crash in python bindings
2589 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2590 for some, but not all users.
2592 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2593 ===========================
2598 Fix `--help` argument
2600 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2601 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2602 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2604 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2605 =========================
2607 New build and testing features
2608 ------------------------------
2610 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2611 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2612 prerequisites is improved.
2614 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2616 New command-line features
2617 -------------------------
2619 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2621 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2622 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2625 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2627 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2628 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2629 favour of using stdout.
2631 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2633 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2634 limit the number of results shown.
2636 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2638 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2639 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2642 New emacs UI features
2643 ---------------------
2645 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2647 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2648 starting with "tag:".
2650 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2652 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2653 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2655 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2657 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2659 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2661 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2662 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2667 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2669 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2671 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2672 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2673 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2674 requires a database rebuild:
2676 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2677 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2679 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2681 New collection of add-on tools
2682 ------------------------------
2684 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2685 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2686 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2689 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2691 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2692 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2693 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2695 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2696 ========================
2698 New, general features
2699 ---------------------
2701 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2703 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2704 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2705 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2706 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2707 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2714 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2715 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2717 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2721 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2722 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2723 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2726 Python bindings changes
2727 -----------------------
2729 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2731 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2732 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2733 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2734 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2735 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2736 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2738 Ruby bindings changes
2739 ---------------------
2741 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2742 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2743 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2744 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2749 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2751 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2752 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2754 Reply formatting cleanup
2755 ------------------------
2757 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2758 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2760 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2761 ========================
2763 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2765 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2766 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2767 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2768 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2771 Improved Build system portability
2773 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2774 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2775 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2777 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2779 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2781 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2783 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2784 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2785 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2787 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2788 ========================
2790 Vim interface improvements
2791 --------------------------
2793 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2795 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2796 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2797 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2798 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2799 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2801 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2803 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2804 * fix compose temp file name
2806 Python Bindings changes
2807 -----------------------
2809 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2811 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2812 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2814 Build-System improvements
2815 -------------------------
2817 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2819 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2822 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2823 ==========================
2828 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2830 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2831 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2833 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2834 =======================
2836 New, general features
2837 ---------------------
2839 Folder-based searching
2841 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2842 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2843 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2847 For example, one might use things such as:
2853 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2854 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2856 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2857 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2858 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2859 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2861 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2862 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2863 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2866 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2867 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2869 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2871 Support for PGP/MIME
2873 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2874 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2875 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2877 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2879 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2880 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2882 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2883 notmuch will receive these tags.
2885 New command-line features
2886 -------------------------
2888 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2890 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2891 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2893 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2895 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2896 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2897 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2899 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2901 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2902 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2903 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2904 which parts a signature part applies).
2906 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2908 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2909 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2910 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2911 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2912 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2915 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2917 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2918 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2919 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2920 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2921 by translating it internally to the new call.
2923 Performance improvements
2924 ------------------------
2926 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2928 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2929 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2930 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2932 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2933 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2935 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2937 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2938 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2939 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2941 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2942 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2943 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2944 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2946 Faster initial indexing
2948 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2949 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2950 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2952 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2954 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2955 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2956 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2957 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2959 New emacs-interface features
2960 ----------------------------
2962 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2964 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2965 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2966 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2967 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2968 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2969 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2971 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2973 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2974 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2975 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2976 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2978 User-selectable From address
2980 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2981 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2982 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2983 will prompt for the from address to use.
2985 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2986 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2987 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2989 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2990 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2991 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2994 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2996 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2997 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2999 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3001 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3003 ----- Original Message -----
3005 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3006 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3007 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3008 citations work much like conventional citations.
3010 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3012 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3013 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3014 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3015 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3016 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3018 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3019 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3021 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3023 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3024 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3025 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3027 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3029 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3030 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3031 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3032 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3033 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3035 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3037 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3040 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3042 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3044 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3046 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3049 Vim interface improvements
3050 --------------------------
3052 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3054 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3055 * Implementing archive in show view
3056 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3057 * Add delete commands
3060 Bindings improvements
3061 ---------------------
3063 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3065 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3066 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3068 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3070 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3074 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3075 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3076 `list(Messages)` works now
3077 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3079 These allow, for example:
3081 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3083 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3085 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3091 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3093 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3096 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3098 New build-system features
3099 -------------------------
3101 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3103 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3104 the configure script from some other directory:
3111 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3113 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3114 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3115 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3116 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3117 manual invocation of configure.
3119 New test-suite feature
3120 ----------------------
3122 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3124 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3125 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3126 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3127 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3128 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3131 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3133 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3134 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3135 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3136 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3137 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3138 are updated to take advantage of this.
3140 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3142 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3143 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3144 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3145 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3151 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3153 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3154 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3155 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3157 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3159 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3161 to:user@elsewhere.com
3163 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3165 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3167 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3169 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3170 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3171 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3174 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3175 from the Received headers in some cases
3177 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3178 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3180 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3182 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3184 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3186 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3187 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3188 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3190 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3191 -------------------------
3193 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3195 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3196 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3197 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3199 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3201 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3202 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3203 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3206 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3208 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3209 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3210 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3211 fixed to avoid this bug.
3213 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3215 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3216 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3218 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3219 ========================
3221 New, general features
3222 ---------------------
3224 Maildir-flag synchronization
3226 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3227 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3236 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3238 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3239 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3240 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3241 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3243 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3244 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3245 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3246 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3249 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3251 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3252 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3253 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3255 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3256 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3258 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3259 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3261 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3262 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3263 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3265 New library features
3266 --------------------
3268 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3270 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3271 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3272 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3273 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3275 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3276 message with the new function:
3278 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3280 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3281 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3282 over all available filenames for a given message.
3284 New command-line features
3285 -------------------------
3287 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3289 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3290 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3291 access to the mail store itself.
3293 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3294 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3295 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3296 name of a script containing:
3298 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3300 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3301 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3307 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3309 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3311 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3313 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3314 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3315 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3316 now produces nothing).
3318 Emacs interface improvements
3319 ----------------------------
3321 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3323 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3325 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3327 Display current thread subject in a header line
3329 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3331 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3333 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3334 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3335 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3336 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3337 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3338 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3339 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3341 Vim interface improvements
3342 --------------------------
3344 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3346 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3347 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3353 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3355 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3356 ========================
3358 New command-line features
3359 -------------------------
3361 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3363 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3364 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3365 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3367 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3368 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3369 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3370 scripts. For example:
3372 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3373 <operations-on> "$file"
3376 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3378 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3379 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3380 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3381 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3382 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3383 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3385 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3387 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3388 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3389 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3390 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3392 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3394 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3395 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3396 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3397 default rather than Bcc.
3399 New library features
3400 --------------------
3402 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3404 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3405 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3410 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3412 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3413 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3414 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3415 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3416 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3417 notmuch customize interface.
3419 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3421 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3422 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3423 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3424 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3426 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3428 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3429 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3430 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3431 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3433 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3435 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3436 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3437 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3438 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3439 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3440 notmuch customize interface.
3442 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3444 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3445 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3446 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3447 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3448 notmuch customize interface.
3450 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3452 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3453 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3454 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3455 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3458 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3460 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3461 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3462 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3465 New build-system features
3466 -------------------------
3468 Various portability fixes have been applied
3470 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3471 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3472 more portable than ever before.
3474 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3476 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3477 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3478 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3480 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3481 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3482 automatically run ldconfig.
3484 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3485 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3486 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3488 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3489 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3490 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3491 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3493 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3495 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3496 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3497 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3498 used in the resulting Makefile.
3500 New test-suite features
3501 -----------------------
3503 New modularization of test suite
3505 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3506 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3507 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3508 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3509 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3510 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3511 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3512 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3514 New testing of emacs interface
3516 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3517 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3518 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3519 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3520 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3521 database via the FCC setting.
3526 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3528 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3529 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3530 persistent error of the form:
3532 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3534 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3535 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3537 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3539 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3540 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3541 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3543 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3545 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3546 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3547 parsing the notmuch results).
3549 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3551 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3554 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3555 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3556 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3561 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3563 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3564 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3565 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3566 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3567 the emacs interface.
3569 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3571 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3572 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3573 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3575 Python-binding fixes
3576 --------------------
3578 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3580 Debian-specific fixes
3581 ---------------------
3583 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3585 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3586 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3587 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3590 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3591 ==========================
3596 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3598 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3599 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3600 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3601 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3603 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3605 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3606 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3607 want notmuch to crash.
3612 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3614 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3615 directory does not exist
3620 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3622 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3623 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3625 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3626 ========================
3628 New command-line features
3629 -------------------------
3631 User-configurable tags for new messages
3633 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3634 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3635 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3636 to specify this value.
3638 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3640 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3641 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3642 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3644 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3646 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3647 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3649 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3651 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3652 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3653 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3654 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3655 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3658 Indication of author names that match a search
3660 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3661 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3662 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3663 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3664 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3665 messages in the thread are listed first.
3667 New: Python bindings
3668 --------------------
3670 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3671 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3672 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3673 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3675 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3676 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3677 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3680 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3681 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3682 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3684 Emacs interface improvements
3685 ----------------------------
3687 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3689 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3690 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3691 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3692 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3693 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3694 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3695 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3696 but without any of the disadvantages).
3698 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3699 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3700 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3703 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3704 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3705 instead running something like:
3707 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3709 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3710 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3711 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3714 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3716 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3717 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3718 tweaked by the user.
3720 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3721 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3722 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3725 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3726 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3727 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3730 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3732 This support currently relies on an external program,
3733 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3734 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3735 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3736 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3737 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3740 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3741 notmuch) is available via:
3743 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3745 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3746 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3747 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3749 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3751 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3752 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3753 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3754 making this automatic in a future release.
3756 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3758 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3759 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3760 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3761 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3762 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3763 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3766 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3768 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3769 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3770 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3772 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3774 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3775 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3776 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3778 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3779 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3780 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3781 other representation.
3783 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3784 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3787 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3789 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3790 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3791 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3793 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3794 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3795 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3797 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3799 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3800 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3801 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3802 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3803 to display the search result.
3805 More flexible handling of header visibility
3807 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3808 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3809 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3810 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3811 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3812 with the 'h' keybinding.
3814 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3815 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3816 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3818 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3820 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3822 Customizable formatting of search results
3824 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3825 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3826 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3828 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3830 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3832 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3837 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3839 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3840 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3841 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3842 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3848 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3850 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3851 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3853 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3855 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3856 accept are now all accepted.
3861 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3863 Better display of output from failed tests
3865 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3866 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3868 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3869 ========================
3871 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3872 detailed release notes this time!
3874 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3875 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3877 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3878 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3879 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3880 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3887 Better guessing of From: header
3889 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3890 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3891 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3892 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3893 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3896 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3898 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3899 guaranteed to match all messages.
3901 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3903 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3904 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3905 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3906 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3907 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3910 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3913 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3914 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3915 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3916 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3921 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3923 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3924 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3925 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3926 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3928 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3930 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3932 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3933 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3934 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3936 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3938 Previously, the user might see:
3940 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3944 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3946 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3947 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3948 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3949 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3951 Emacs client features
3952 ---------------------
3954 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3956 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3957 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3958 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3959 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3960 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3962 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3965 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3966 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3967 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3968 search with the '*' binding.
3970 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3972 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3973 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3976 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3978 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3979 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3980 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3982 Build-system features
3983 ---------------------
3985 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3987 Add support to configure for many standard options
3989 We include actual support for:
3991 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3993 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3995 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3996 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3998 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3999 separate "make install-emacs"
4001 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4003 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4004 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4005 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4007 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4010 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4011 ========================
4013 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4015 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4016 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4018 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4019 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4020 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4021 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4022 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4023 tags from messages in a thread.
4030 indent-tabs-mode: nil