1 Notmuch 0.38.1 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
4 Notmuch 0.38 (2023-09-12)
5 =========================
10 Support relative lastmod queries (see notmuch-sexp-queries(7) and
11 notmuch-search-terms(7) for details).
13 Support indexing of designated attachments as text (see
14 notmuch-config(1) for details).
19 Add options --offset and --limit to notmuch-show(1).
24 New commands notmuch-search-edit-search and notmuch-tree-edit-search.
26 Introduce notmuch-tree-outline-mode.
28 Some compatibility fixes for Emacs 29. At least one issue (hiding
29 images) remains in 0.38.
31 Support completion when piping to external command.
33 Fix regression in updating tag display introduced by 0.37.
38 Fix bug creating database when database.path is not set.
40 Incremental performance improvements for message deletion.
42 Catch Xapian exceptions when deleting messages.
44 Sync removed message properties to the database.
46 Replace use of thread-unsafe Query::MatchAll in the infix query
52 Be more careful when clearing the results directory.
57 Use `database_open_with_config`, and provide compatible path search
60 Bugfix for query.get_sort
65 Support testing installed version of notmuch.
67 Adapt to some breaking changes in glib handling of init files.
69 Replace OpenPGP key used in test suite.
74 Update signatures for performance test corpus.
76 Notmuch 0.37 (2022-08-21)
77 =========================
82 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
84 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
89 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
91 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
93 Command Line Interface
94 ----------------------
96 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
98 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
100 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
101 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
106 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
109 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
111 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
112 in a future version of Notmuch.
114 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
115 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
117 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
120 Use `message-dont-reply-to-names` in `notmuch-message-mode`.
122 Support custom header-line format for notmuch-show mode.
124 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
125 =========================
130 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
131 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
132 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
134 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
135 bracketed sub-expressions.
137 Command Line Interface
138 ----------------------
140 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
141 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
142 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
144 Python (CFFI) Bindings
145 ----------------------
147 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
148 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
154 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
160 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
161 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
167 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
169 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
170 -----------------------------
172 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
173 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
174 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
175 for more information.
177 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
178 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
181 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
182 =========================
187 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
189 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
191 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
192 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
194 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
196 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
201 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
204 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
206 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
207 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
212 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
214 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
217 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
218 third party completion frameworks.
220 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
222 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
224 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
225 signed and/or encrypted messages.
227 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
230 Make header line in show buffers optional.
232 Add customizable names for search buffers.
237 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
239 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
240 installed version of notmuch.
242 Ignore more configure options.
247 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
250 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
255 Add `matched` property to message objects.
257 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
258 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
264 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
266 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
267 ===========================
272 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
273 xapian/ subdirectory.
275 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
276 --------------------------
278 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
279 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
281 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
282 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
284 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
287 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
288 ===========================
293 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
294 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
295 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
297 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
298 --------------------------
300 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
301 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
303 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
304 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
305 and database location options as the library does.
307 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
309 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
310 ===========================
315 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
316 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
317 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
318 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
319 status returns for the same 3 functions.
321 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
322 =========================
327 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
328 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
329 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
330 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
331 s-expression query support.
336 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
341 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
343 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
345 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
347 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
349 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
350 ===========================
355 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
357 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
358 ===========================
363 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
364 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
367 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
368 =========================
373 Correct documentation about transactions.
375 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
376 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
378 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
383 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
389 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
390 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
391 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
393 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
395 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
397 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
399 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
401 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
403 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
406 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
411 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
412 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
413 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
414 split, following an old library API change.
419 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
424 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
426 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
428 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
429 ===========================
434 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
437 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
440 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
441 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
446 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
448 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
449 ===========================
454 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
460 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
465 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
470 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
475 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
476 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
478 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
479 ===========================
484 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
485 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
486 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
488 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
489 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
490 database in a pre-new hook.
492 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
493 default worked only in "notmuch config".
498 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
499 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
501 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
502 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
503 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
505 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
506 =========================
511 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
512 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
513 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
514 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
515 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
516 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
517 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
518 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
519 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
520 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
521 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
526 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
527 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
529 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
530 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
531 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
532 - `notmuch_config_get`
534 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
535 now exposed (and generalized).
537 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
538 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
539 session has been fixed.
541 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
542 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
547 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
548 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
550 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
551 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
556 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
557 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
558 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
559 when prompting for senders.
561 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
562 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
565 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
567 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
569 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
570 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
571 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
572 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
573 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
574 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
575 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
577 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
578 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
580 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
581 you should change it to:
582 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
584 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
585 ===========================
590 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
595 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
597 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
598 ===========================
603 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
608 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
613 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
615 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
616 ===========================
621 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
622 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
624 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
625 ===========================
630 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
635 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
636 with a C++ header for some compilers.
638 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
640 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
641 =========================
646 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
647 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
648 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
650 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
652 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
654 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
656 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
659 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
661 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
662 search, show and tree mode)
664 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
667 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
670 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
671 always be newest first.
676 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
677 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
678 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
684 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
685 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
686 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
687 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
689 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
690 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
691 non-status providing versions.
693 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
694 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
696 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
697 promised in the documentation.
702 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
703 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
704 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
709 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
710 development version).
715 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
720 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
722 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
723 =========================
728 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
729 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
730 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
733 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
739 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
740 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
741 notmuch-properties(7)).
746 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
747 has protected headers (see
748 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
749 notmuch-properties(7)).
754 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
756 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
757 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
763 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
766 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
767 ===========================
772 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
774 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
779 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
781 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
782 ===========================
787 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
788 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
790 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
791 ===========================
796 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
798 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
799 =========================
804 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
805 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
808 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
809 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
810 the set of headers to be indexed.
812 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
815 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
816 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
817 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
820 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
821 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
822 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
824 Command Line Interface
825 ----------------------
827 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
830 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
832 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
833 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
834 more details about what is included there. This status includes
835 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
840 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
841 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
843 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
845 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
847 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
849 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
851 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
854 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
856 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
857 and may be removed in a future release.
859 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
865 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
867 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
868 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
873 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
874 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
875 cryptography support.
880 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
881 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
882 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
884 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
885 ===========================
887 Command line interface
888 ----------------------
890 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
891 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
893 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
894 ===========================
899 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
900 by message properties.
905 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
907 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
908 ===========================
913 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
918 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
919 now needed to build this documentation.
921 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
922 ===========================
927 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
928 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
930 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
931 =========================
938 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
939 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
940 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
941 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
942 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
945 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
947 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
948 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
949 correct encoding for such messages.
951 Command Line Interface
952 ----------------------
954 Support relative database paths
956 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
957 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
958 to $HOME of the invoking user.
963 Improve stderr handling
965 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
966 needed on e.g. macOS.
968 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
970 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
975 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
976 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
982 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
983 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
989 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
990 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
993 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
994 =========================
999 Add support for thread:{} queries
1001 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
1002 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
1003 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
1005 Command Line Interface
1006 ----------------------
1008 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
1010 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
1012 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
1014 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
1015 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
1016 does not have to be available during message receipt.
1021 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
1027 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
1028 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
1030 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
1031 ===========================
1036 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
1038 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
1039 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
1040 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
1042 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
1044 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
1045 related abort in `notmuch show`.
1047 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
1048 ===========================
1053 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
1054 better late than never.
1057 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
1058 =========================
1060 Command Line Interface
1061 ----------------------
1063 Support for re-indexing existing messages
1065 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
1066 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
1067 change the way specific messages are indexed.
1069 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
1070 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
1071 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
1073 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
1075 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
1077 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1079 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1080 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1081 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1082 the setting of `new.tags`.
1084 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1086 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1088 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1090 This inserts into the top level folder.
1092 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1094 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1096 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1098 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1100 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1102 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1103 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1104 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1106 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1111 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1113 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1114 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1115 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1116 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1117 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1118 config set index.decrypt true".
1120 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1121 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1122 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1123 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1124 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1125 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1126 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1127 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1129 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1130 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1131 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1132 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1137 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1139 Use make-process when available
1141 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1142 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1147 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1149 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1150 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1151 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1152 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1154 New functions to count files
1156 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1157 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1159 New function to remove properties
1161 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1162 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1163 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1165 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1167 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1168 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1169 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1171 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1173 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1174 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1175 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1176 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1177 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1184 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1185 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1186 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1192 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1194 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1195 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1197 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1199 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1201 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1203 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1208 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1209 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1211 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1212 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1213 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1214 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1215 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1216 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1221 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1223 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1224 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1225 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1226 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1228 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1229 ===========================
1234 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1235 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1238 Command Line Interface
1239 ----------------------
1241 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1242 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1245 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1246 ===========================
1248 Command Line Interface
1249 ----------------------
1251 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1252 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1257 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1260 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1261 ===========================
1266 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1269 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1270 =========================
1275 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1277 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1279 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1281 Command Line Interface
1282 ----------------------
1284 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1286 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1291 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1293 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1294 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1297 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1302 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1304 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1305 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1307 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1309 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1310 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1313 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1315 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1317 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1319 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1320 ===========================
1322 Command Line Interface
1323 ----------------------
1325 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1330 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1332 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1333 ===========================
1338 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1340 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1341 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1344 Command Line Interface
1345 ----------------------
1347 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1349 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1351 Fix bug in dump header
1353 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1354 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1355 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1360 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1362 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1363 =========================
1368 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1370 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1373 Command Line Interface
1374 ----------------------
1376 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1378 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1379 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1380 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1382 New default output format to 3
1384 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1385 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1386 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1387 default format changes.
1392 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1394 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1395 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1396 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1397 or tree view to resume.
1399 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1400 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1401 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1404 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1405 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1409 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1410 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1411 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1412 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1413 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1417 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1418 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1419 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1420 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1421 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1422 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1426 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1427 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1429 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1431 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1432 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1433 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1434 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1435 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1436 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1437 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1438 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1441 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1443 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1444 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1445 only tagged the current thread.)
1447 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1449 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1450 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1451 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1453 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1455 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1456 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1457 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1458 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1459 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1460 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1461 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1463 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1465 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1466 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1467 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1472 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1474 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1477 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1479 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1482 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1483 ===========================
1488 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1490 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1491 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1492 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1495 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1496 ===========================
1498 Command Line Interface
1499 ----------------------
1501 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1506 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1508 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1509 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1510 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1512 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1513 ===========================
1518 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1519 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1521 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1522 ===========================
1524 Command Line Interface
1525 ----------------------
1527 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1529 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1530 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1531 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1536 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1538 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1539 ===========================
1541 Command Line Interface
1542 ----------------------
1544 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1549 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1551 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1552 ===========================
1557 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1559 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1560 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1561 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1563 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1565 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1567 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1568 ===========================
1573 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1575 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1580 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1582 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1583 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1584 the original colours.
1586 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1587 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1589 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1591 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1592 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1593 bug, and hence the test.
1595 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1596 =========================
1598 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1599 ---------------------
1601 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1603 Support for single argument date: queries
1605 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1607 Support for blocking opens
1609 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1610 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1612 Support for named queries
1614 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1615 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1616 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1621 Message property API
1623 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1624 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1625 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1626 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1628 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1630 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1635 Support for compile time options
1637 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1638 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1641 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1643 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1644 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1645 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1646 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1647 scripts to ignore it.
1652 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1654 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1655 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1656 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1658 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1659 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1660 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1661 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1662 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1663 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1664 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1666 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1667 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1670 Make internal address completion customizable
1672 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1673 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1674 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1675 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1678 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1680 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1681 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1682 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1683 completion for the current buffer.
1685 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1686 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1687 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1691 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1692 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1693 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1694 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1695 will be added instead.
1697 Face customization is easier
1699 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1700 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1701 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1702 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1704 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1709 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1714 Go bindings moved to contrib
1716 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1718 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1720 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1721 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1723 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1725 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1726 ===========================
1733 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1734 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1736 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1738 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1740 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1741 ===========================
1746 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1748 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1753 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1758 Use `env` to locate perl.
1763 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1765 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1767 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1769 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1771 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1772 =========================
1779 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1780 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1782 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1784 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1785 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1786 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1791 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1792 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1793 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1795 Command Line Interface
1796 ----------------------
1798 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1800 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1805 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1810 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1812 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1813 parts are now included in replies.
1815 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1816 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1817 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1818 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1820 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1822 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1824 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1826 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1827 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1828 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1829 forwards only the current message.
1831 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1833 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1834 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1835 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1836 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1837 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1838 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1839 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1840 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1843 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1844 longer generate empty buffers
1846 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1847 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1848 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1849 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1850 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1852 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1854 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1857 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1859 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1862 Address completion improvements
1864 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1865 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1866 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1867 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1868 interactive address completion.
1870 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1872 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1873 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1874 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1879 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1880 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1881 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1887 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1888 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1889 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1890 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1891 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1892 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1894 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1895 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1896 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1897 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1898 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1899 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1901 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1902 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1904 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1905 =========================
1910 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1913 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1915 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1916 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1917 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1919 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1920 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1922 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1923 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1924 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1926 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1928 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1929 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1930 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1931 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1932 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1933 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1938 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1939 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1942 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1943 option to configure.
1945 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1947 Command Line Interface
1948 ----------------------
1950 Database revision tracking
1952 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1953 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1954 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1955 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1957 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1959 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1960 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1961 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1962 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1963 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1964 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1965 manual page for further information.
1970 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1972 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1973 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1975 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1977 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1978 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1979 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1981 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1983 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1985 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1986 customization as well.
1988 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1990 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1992 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1994 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1996 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1997 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1998 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1999 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2001 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
2003 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
2004 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
2005 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
2006 this variable to 10000.
2011 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
2012 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
2014 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
2016 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
2017 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
2018 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
2019 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
2020 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
2021 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
2022 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
2023 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
2024 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
2027 Database revision tracking
2029 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
2030 query parser and the new function
2031 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
2033 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
2035 Deprecated functions
2037 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
2038 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
2039 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
2040 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
2045 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
2047 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
2048 ===========================
2053 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
2055 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
2056 ===========================
2061 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
2063 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
2064 =========================
2066 Command-Line Interface
2067 ----------------------
2069 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
2071 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
2072 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
2073 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
2075 Path to gpg is now configurable
2077 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
2078 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2083 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2085 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2090 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2095 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2100 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2102 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2103 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2105 New error logging facility
2107 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2108 output formerly printed to stderr.
2110 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2112 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2114 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2116 Fix for rounding of seconds
2121 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2123 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2124 documentation has been removed.
2126 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2128 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2129 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2134 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2135 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2136 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2141 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2142 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2143 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2144 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2145 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2146 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2149 git checkout config origin/config
2151 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2153 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2154 =========================
2159 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2160 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2161 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2162 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2163 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2164 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2165 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2167 Command-Line Interface
2168 ----------------------
2170 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2172 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2173 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2174 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2175 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2176 script callers should still check the return value.
2178 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2180 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2181 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2182 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2183 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2184 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2185 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2186 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2188 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2190 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2191 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2192 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2194 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2196 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2197 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2198 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2199 currently unmaintained.
2201 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2203 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2204 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2205 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2206 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2208 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2210 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2211 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2212 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2213 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2214 count of duplicate addresses.
2219 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2221 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2222 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2223 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2226 Improved handling of the unread tag
2228 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2229 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2230 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2231 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2232 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2233 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2234 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2236 Expanded default saved search settings
2238 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2239 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2241 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2243 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2244 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2245 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2247 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2249 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2250 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2251 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2252 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2253 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2254 the variable for details.
2259 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2261 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2262 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2263 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2264 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2266 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2268 Previously, library users were required to call
2269 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2270 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2271 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2272 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2273 too out of date for that API.
2275 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2277 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2278 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2279 atomic section will be aborted.
2281 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2282 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2284 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2286 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2287 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2288 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2289 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2290 messages into the same thread.
2295 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2296 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2297 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2298 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2299 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2300 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2305 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2306 from the config file. Use something like:
2310 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2311 "footer": "</body></html>",
2320 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2325 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2326 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2327 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2329 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2330 ===========================
2335 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2337 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2339 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2341 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2342 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2344 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2346 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2349 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2350 ===========================
2352 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2357 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2359 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2361 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2363 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2365 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2371 Use --quick when starting emacs
2373 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2375 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2377 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2379 Command-Line Interface
2380 ----------------------
2382 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2383 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2388 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2390 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2391 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2393 Fix for phrase indexing
2395 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2396 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2397 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2402 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2404 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2405 unintentionally removed.
2407 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2408 =========================
2413 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2414 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2415 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2416 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2417 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2418 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2419 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2420 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2421 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2427 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2429 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2430 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2431 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2432 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2433 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2434 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2435 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2436 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2438 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2440 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2441 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2442 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2443 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2446 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2448 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2449 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2450 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2451 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2452 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2453 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2454 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2459 Notmuch database upgrade
2461 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2462 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2463 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2464 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2465 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2466 released version of Notmuch before now.
2468 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2470 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2471 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2472 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2473 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2475 Message header parsing changes
2477 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2478 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2479 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2480 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2481 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2482 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2484 Command-Line Interface
2485 ----------------------
2487 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2489 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2491 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2493 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2495 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2497 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2498 user does not want it.
2500 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2502 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2503 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2504 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2505 support formatted output.
2507 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2509 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2510 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2511 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2519 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2520 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2521 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2522 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2523 `~/.emacs` with these.
2525 Changed format for saved searches
2527 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2528 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2529 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2530 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2533 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2534 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2535 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2536 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2538 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2539 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2540 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2542 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2543 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2544 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2545 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2546 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2548 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2550 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2551 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2552 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2554 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2556 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2557 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2558 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2559 message had been unread).
2561 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2562 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2563 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2564 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2566 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2567 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2568 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2570 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2571 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2572 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2573 to tags already present.
2577 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2578 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2579 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2580 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2581 these differ from each other.
2582 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2584 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2586 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2587 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2588 for these Emacs versions.
2590 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2592 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2593 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2595 Bug fixes for sender identities
2597 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2598 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2599 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2601 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2603 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2604 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2605 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2606 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2608 Reply pushes mark before signature
2610 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2611 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2612 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2614 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2616 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2617 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2623 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2624 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2626 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2627 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2628 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2629 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2631 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2632 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2633 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2634 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2635 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2637 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2639 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2640 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2642 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2643 =========================
2645 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2646 ---------------------------------------
2648 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2649 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2650 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2651 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2652 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2653 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2654 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2658 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2659 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2661 Command-Line Interface
2662 ----------------------
2664 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2666 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2667 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2668 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2669 print for each message.
2671 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2672 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2673 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2674 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2676 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2678 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2679 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2680 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2682 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2684 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2685 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2686 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2687 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2689 `notmuch compact` command
2691 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2692 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2693 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2694 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2695 move the compacted database into place.
2700 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2702 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2703 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2704 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2705 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2706 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2707 and multiple threads.
2709 Using `notmuch-tree`
2711 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2713 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2714 search, show and tree mode itself)
2716 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2719 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2720 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2722 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2724 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2725 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2726 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2727 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2728 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2729 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2730 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2732 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2734 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2735 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2736 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2737 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2738 thread when the search was performed.
2740 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2742 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2743 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2744 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2746 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2748 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2749 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2752 Built-in help improvements
2754 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2755 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2756 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2758 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2760 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2761 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2762 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2764 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2766 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2767 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2769 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2771 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2772 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2773 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2774 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2776 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2778 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2779 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2780 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2781 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2783 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2785 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2786 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2787 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2789 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2791 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2792 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2793 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2795 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2797 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2798 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2799 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2800 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2801 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2803 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2805 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2806 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2807 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2808 the body part of the message.
2813 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2814 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2815 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2817 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2818 =========================
2820 Command-Line Interface
2821 ----------------------
2823 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2825 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2826 folder and notmuch index.
2828 `notmuch count --batch` option
2830 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2831 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2833 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2835 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2836 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2837 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2840 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2842 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2843 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2844 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2845 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2846 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2849 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2851 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2852 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2854 Top level option to specify configuration file
2856 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2857 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2859 Bash command-line completion
2861 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2862 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2863 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2864 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2865 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2866 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2867 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2868 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2869 bash-completion package.
2871 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2876 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2878 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2879 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2880 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2881 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2882 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2883 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2884 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2885 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2887 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2889 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2890 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2891 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2893 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2895 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2896 previous thread in the search results.
2898 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2900 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2901 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2903 Faster search and show
2905 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2906 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2907 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2908 threads should show faster.
2912 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2913 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2914 in question was now removed from this release.
2919 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2920 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2925 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2927 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2928 ===========================
2933 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2935 Internal test framework changes
2936 -------------------------------
2938 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2939 being unimplemented.
2941 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2942 ===========================
2944 Internal test framework changes
2945 -------------------------------
2947 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2948 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2950 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2951 =========================
2956 Date range search support
2958 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2959 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2960 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2961 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2962 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2965 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2967 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2968 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2969 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2970 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2971 but may be removed in a future release.
2973 Command-Line Interface
2974 ----------------------
2976 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2978 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2979 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2981 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2983 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2984 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2985 officially deprecated.
2987 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2989 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2990 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2991 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2993 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2995 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2996 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2999 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
3000 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
3001 dump/restore format.
3003 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
3005 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
3006 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
3007 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
3009 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
3011 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
3012 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
3013 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
3015 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
3017 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
3018 output separated by null characters rather than newline
3019 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
3020 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
3025 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
3027 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
3028 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
3029 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
3030 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
3032 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
3034 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
3035 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
3036 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
3037 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
3038 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
3039 the behavior of this, see
3040 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
3041 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
3043 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
3044 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
3045 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
3047 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
3049 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
3050 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
3053 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
3055 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
3056 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
3057 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
3058 simply displayed in place of the message.
3060 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
3062 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
3063 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
3065 Improved text/calendar content handling
3067 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
3068 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
3069 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
3070 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
3072 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
3074 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
3075 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
3076 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
3077 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3079 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3081 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3082 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3083 for HTML email containing images.
3085 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3087 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3089 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3091 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3094 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3096 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3097 the point where it was.
3099 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3101 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3102 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3103 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3104 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3105 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3107 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3109 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3110 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3111 thread instead of the message id.
3113 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3114 -----------------------------
3116 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3117 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3118 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3119 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3120 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3121 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3122 further details and installation.
3127 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3129 Internal test framework changes
3130 -------------------------------
3132 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3134 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3135 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3136 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3137 can result in buggy behavior.
3139 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3140 =========================
3145 Maildir tag synchronization
3147 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3148 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3149 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3150 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3151 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3152 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3155 Command-Line Interface
3156 ----------------------
3158 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3159 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3160 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3161 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3162 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3168 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3170 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3172 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3173 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3174 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3176 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3178 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3179 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3180 span multiple lines.
3182 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3184 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3185 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3186 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3187 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3188 inside the result or message.
3190 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3192 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3193 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3195 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3196 user-specified formatting
3198 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3199 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3200 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3201 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3202 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3204 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3205 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3207 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3208 ===========================
3213 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3214 compilation error for this contrib package.
3216 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3217 ===========================
3222 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3224 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3225 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3226 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3227 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3229 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3230 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3233 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3234 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3235 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3236 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3239 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3241 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3244 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3245 =========================
3247 Command-Line Interface
3248 ----------------------
3252 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3253 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3254 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3255 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3257 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3258 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3259 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3260 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3264 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3265 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3267 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3268 tag in your query, for example:
3270 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3272 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3273 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3275 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3276 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3278 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3280 Raw show format changes
3282 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3283 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3284 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3285 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3286 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3287 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3288 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3289 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3291 Listing configuration items
3293 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3299 Changes to tagging interface
3301 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3302 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3303 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3304 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3305 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3306 for more information.
3308 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3309 may need to update in custom configurations.
3311 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3313 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3314 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3315 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3316 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3319 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3320 -----------------------------
3322 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3323 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3324 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3325 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3326 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3327 contrib/ from now on.
3332 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3333 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3335 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3336 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3338 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3339 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3340 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3342 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3343 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3345 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3346 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3347 returning the new database object or directory object.
3354 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3355 compatible with go 1.
3357 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3358 =========================
3360 Command-Line Interface
3361 ----------------------
3365 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3366 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3367 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3368 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3370 Mail store folder/file ignore
3372 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3373 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3374 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3376 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3377 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3379 Unified help and manual pages
3381 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3382 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3385 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3387 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3388 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3396 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3397 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3398 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3399 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3401 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3403 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3404 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3406 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3409 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3410 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3411 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3413 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3415 should be changed to:
3417 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3419 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3421 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3422 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3424 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3426 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3427 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3428 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3429 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3430 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3431 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3435 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3436 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3437 of Mailing List Archives.
3439 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3441 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3442 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3445 Show view archiving key binding changes
3447 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3448 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3449 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3450 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3451 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3454 Support text/calendar MIME type
3456 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3459 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3461 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3462 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3463 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3464 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3466 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3468 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3469 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3470 messages blue by default in the search view.
3474 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3475 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3482 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3485 Python bindings changes
3486 -----------------------
3488 Python 3.2 compatibility
3490 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3492 Added missing unicode conversions
3494 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3495 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3496 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3501 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3503 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3504 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3505 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3506 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3507 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3509 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3510 ===========================
3515 Fix error handling in python bindings
3517 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3518 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3519 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3520 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3522 Quote MML tags in replies
3524 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3525 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3526 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3527 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3528 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3529 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3530 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3531 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3533 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3534 =========================
3536 Command-Line Interface
3537 ----------------------
3541 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3542 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3543 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3544 importing new messages into the database.
3546 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3548 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3549 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3550 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3555 Automatic tag query optimization
3557 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3558 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3559 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3561 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3563 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3564 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3565 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3570 Reduction of memory leaks
3572 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3573 and fixed in this release.
3580 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3581 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3582 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3585 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3587 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3588 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3589 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3592 Improvements in saved search management
3594 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3595 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3596 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3598 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3600 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3601 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3602 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3604 New face for crypto parts headers
3606 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3607 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3608 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3611 Use space as default thousands separator
3613 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3614 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3615 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3617 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3618 buttonized id: links
3620 New function notmuch-show-advance
3622 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3623 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3624 be bound to SPC with:
3626 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3628 Various performance improvements
3633 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3634 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3637 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3638 ===========================
3643 Fix crash in python bindings
3645 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3646 for some, but not all users.
3648 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3649 ===========================
3654 Fix `--help` argument
3656 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3657 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3658 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3660 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3661 =========================
3663 New build and testing features
3664 ------------------------------
3666 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3667 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3668 prerequisites is improved.
3670 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3672 New command-line features
3673 -------------------------
3675 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3677 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3678 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3681 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3683 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3684 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3685 favour of using stdout.
3687 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3689 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3690 limit the number of results shown.
3692 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3694 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3695 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3698 New emacs UI features
3699 ---------------------
3701 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3703 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3704 starting with "tag:".
3706 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3708 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3709 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3711 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3713 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3715 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3717 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3718 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3723 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3725 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3727 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3728 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3729 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3730 requires a database rebuild:
3732 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3733 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3735 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3737 New collection of add-on tools
3738 ------------------------------
3740 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3741 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3742 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3745 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3747 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3748 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3749 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3751 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3752 ========================
3754 New, general features
3755 ---------------------
3757 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3759 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3760 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3761 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3762 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3763 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3770 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3771 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3773 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3777 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3778 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3779 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3782 Python bindings changes
3783 -----------------------
3785 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3787 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3788 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3789 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3790 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3791 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3792 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3794 Ruby bindings changes
3795 ---------------------
3797 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3798 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3799 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3800 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3805 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3807 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3808 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3810 Reply formatting cleanup
3811 ------------------------
3813 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3814 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3816 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3817 ========================
3819 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3821 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3822 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3823 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3824 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3827 Improved Build system portability
3829 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3830 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3831 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3833 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3835 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3837 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3839 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3840 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3841 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3843 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3844 ========================
3846 Vim interface improvements
3847 --------------------------
3849 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3851 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3852 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3853 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3854 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3855 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3857 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3859 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3860 * fix compose temp file name
3862 Python Bindings changes
3863 -----------------------
3865 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3867 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3868 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3870 Build-System improvements
3871 -------------------------
3873 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3875 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3878 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3879 ==========================
3884 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3886 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3887 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3889 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3890 =======================
3892 New, general features
3893 ---------------------
3895 Folder-based searching
3897 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3898 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3899 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3903 For example, one might use things such as:
3909 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3910 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3912 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3913 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3914 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3915 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3917 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3918 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3919 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3922 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3923 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3925 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3927 Support for PGP/MIME
3929 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3930 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3931 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3933 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3935 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3936 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3938 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3939 notmuch will receive these tags.
3941 New command-line features
3942 -------------------------
3944 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3946 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3947 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3949 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3951 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3952 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3953 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3955 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3957 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3958 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3959 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3960 which parts a signature part applies).
3962 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3964 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3965 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3966 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3967 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3968 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3971 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3973 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3974 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3975 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3976 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3977 by translating it internally to the new call.
3979 Performance improvements
3980 ------------------------
3982 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3984 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3985 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3986 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3988 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3989 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3991 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3993 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3994 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3995 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3997 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3998 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3999 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
4000 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
4002 Faster initial indexing
4004 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
4005 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
4006 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
4008 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
4010 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
4011 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
4012 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
4013 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
4015 New emacs-interface features
4016 ----------------------------
4018 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
4020 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
4021 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
4022 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
4023 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
4024 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
4025 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
4027 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
4029 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
4030 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
4031 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
4032 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
4034 User-selectable From address
4036 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
4037 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
4038 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
4039 will prompt for the from address to use.
4041 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
4042 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
4043 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
4045 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
4046 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
4047 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
4050 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
4052 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
4053 its parent, the subject is not shown.
4055 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
4057 When a message contains a line looking something like:
4059 ----- Original Message -----
4061 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
4062 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
4063 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
4064 citations work much like conventional citations.
4066 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
4068 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
4069 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
4070 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
4071 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
4072 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
4074 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
4075 Notmuch After Tag Hook
4077 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4079 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4080 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4081 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4083 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4085 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4086 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4087 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4088 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4089 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4091 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4093 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4096 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4098 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4100 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4102 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4105 Vim interface improvements
4106 --------------------------
4108 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4110 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4111 * Implementing archive in show view
4112 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4113 * Add delete commands
4116 Bindings improvements
4117 ---------------------
4119 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4121 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4122 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4124 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4126 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4130 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4131 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4132 `list(Messages)` works now
4133 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4135 These allow, for example:
4137 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4139 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4141 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4147 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4149 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4152 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4154 New build-system features
4155 -------------------------
4157 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4159 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4160 the configure script from some other directory:
4167 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4169 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4170 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4171 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4172 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4173 manual invocation of configure.
4175 New test-suite feature
4176 ----------------------
4178 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4180 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4181 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4182 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4183 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4184 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4187 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4189 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4190 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4191 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4192 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4193 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4194 are updated to take advantage of this.
4196 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4198 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4199 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4200 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4201 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4207 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4209 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4210 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4211 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4213 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4215 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4217 to:user@elsewhere.com
4219 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4221 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4223 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4225 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4226 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4227 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4230 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4231 from the Received headers in some cases
4233 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4234 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4236 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4238 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4240 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4242 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4243 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4244 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4246 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4247 -------------------------
4249 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4251 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4252 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4253 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4255 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4257 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4258 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4259 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4262 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4264 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4265 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4266 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4267 fixed to avoid this bug.
4269 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4271 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4272 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4274 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4275 ========================
4277 New, general features
4278 ---------------------
4280 Maildir-flag synchronization
4282 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4283 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4292 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4294 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4295 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4296 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4297 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4299 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4300 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4301 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4302 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4305 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4307 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4308 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4309 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4311 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4312 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4314 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4315 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4317 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4318 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4319 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4321 New library features
4322 --------------------
4324 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4326 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4327 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4328 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4329 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4331 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4332 message with the new function:
4334 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4336 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4337 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4338 over all available filenames for a given message.
4340 New command-line features
4341 -------------------------
4343 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4345 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4346 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4347 access to the mail store itself.
4349 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4350 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4351 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4352 name of a script containing:
4354 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4356 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4357 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4363 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4365 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4367 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4369 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4370 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4371 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4372 now produces nothing).
4374 Emacs interface improvements
4375 ----------------------------
4377 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4379 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4381 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4383 Display current thread subject in a header line
4385 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4387 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4389 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4390 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4391 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4392 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4393 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4394 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4395 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4397 Vim interface improvements
4398 --------------------------
4400 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4402 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4403 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4409 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4411 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4412 ========================
4414 New command-line features
4415 -------------------------
4417 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4419 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4420 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4421 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4423 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4424 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4425 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4426 scripts. For example:
4428 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4429 <operations-on> "$file"
4432 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4434 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4435 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4436 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4437 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4438 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4439 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4441 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4443 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4444 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4445 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4446 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4448 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4450 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4451 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4452 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4453 default rather than Bcc.
4455 New library features
4456 --------------------
4458 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4460 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4461 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4466 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4468 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4469 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4470 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4471 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4472 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4473 notmuch customize interface.
4475 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4477 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4478 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4479 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4480 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4482 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4484 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4485 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4486 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4487 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4489 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4491 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4492 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4493 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4494 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4495 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4496 notmuch customize interface.
4498 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4500 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4501 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4502 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4503 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4504 notmuch customize interface.
4506 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4508 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4509 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4510 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4511 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4514 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4516 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4517 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4518 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4521 New build-system features
4522 -------------------------
4524 Various portability fixes have been applied
4526 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4527 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4528 more portable than ever before.
4530 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4532 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4533 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4534 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4536 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4537 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4538 automatically run ldconfig.
4540 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4541 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4542 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4544 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4545 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4546 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4547 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4549 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4551 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4552 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4553 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4554 used in the resulting Makefile.
4556 New test-suite features
4557 -----------------------
4559 New modularization of test suite
4561 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4562 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4563 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4564 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4565 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4566 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4567 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4568 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4570 New testing of emacs interface
4572 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4573 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4574 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4575 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4576 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4577 database via the FCC setting.
4582 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4584 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4585 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4586 persistent error of the form:
4588 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4590 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4591 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4593 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4595 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4596 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4597 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4599 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4601 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4602 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4603 parsing the notmuch results).
4605 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4607 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4610 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4611 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4612 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4617 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4619 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4620 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4621 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4622 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4623 the emacs interface.
4625 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4627 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4628 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4629 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4631 Python-binding fixes
4632 --------------------
4634 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4636 Debian-specific fixes
4637 ---------------------
4639 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4641 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4642 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4643 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4646 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4647 ==========================
4652 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4654 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4655 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4656 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4657 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4659 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4661 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4662 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4663 want notmuch to crash.
4668 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4670 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4671 directory does not exist
4676 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4678 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4679 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4681 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4682 ========================
4684 New command-line features
4685 -------------------------
4687 User-configurable tags for new messages
4689 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4690 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4691 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4692 to specify this value.
4694 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4696 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4697 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4698 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4700 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4702 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4703 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4705 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4707 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4708 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4709 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4710 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4711 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4714 Indication of author names that match a search
4716 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4717 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4718 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4719 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4720 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4721 messages in the thread are listed first.
4723 New: Python bindings
4724 --------------------
4726 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4727 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4728 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4729 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4731 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4732 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4733 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4736 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4737 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4738 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4740 Emacs interface improvements
4741 ----------------------------
4743 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4745 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4746 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4747 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4748 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4749 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4750 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4751 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4752 but without any of the disadvantages).
4754 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4755 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4756 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4759 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4760 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4761 instead running something like:
4763 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4765 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4766 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4767 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4770 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4772 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4773 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4774 tweaked by the user.
4776 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4777 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4778 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4781 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4782 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4783 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4786 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4788 This support currently relies on an external program,
4789 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4790 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4791 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4792 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4793 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4796 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4797 notmuch) is available via:
4799 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4801 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4802 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4803 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4805 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4807 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4808 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4809 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4810 making this automatic in a future release.
4812 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4814 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4815 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4816 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4817 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4818 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4819 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4822 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4824 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4825 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4826 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4828 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4830 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4831 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4832 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4834 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4835 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4836 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4837 other representation.
4839 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4840 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4843 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4845 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4846 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4847 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4849 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4850 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4851 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4853 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4855 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4856 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4857 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4858 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4859 to display the search result.
4861 More flexible handling of header visibility
4863 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4864 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4865 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4866 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4867 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4868 with the 'h' keybinding.
4870 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4871 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4872 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4874 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4876 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4878 Customizable formatting of search results
4880 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4881 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4882 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4884 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4886 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4888 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4893 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4895 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4896 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4897 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4898 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4904 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4906 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4907 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4909 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4911 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4912 accept are now all accepted.
4917 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4919 Better display of output from failed tests
4921 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4922 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4924 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4925 ========================
4927 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4928 detailed release notes this time!
4930 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4931 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4933 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4934 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4935 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4936 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4943 Better guessing of From: header
4945 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4946 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4947 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4948 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4949 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4952 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4954 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4955 guaranteed to match all messages.
4957 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4959 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4960 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4961 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4962 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4963 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4966 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4969 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4970 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4971 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4972 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4977 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4979 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4980 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4981 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4982 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4984 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4986 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4988 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4989 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4990 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4992 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4994 Previously, the user might see:
4996 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
5000 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
5002 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
5003 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
5004 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
5005 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
5007 Emacs client features
5008 ---------------------
5010 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
5012 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
5013 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
5014 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
5015 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
5016 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
5018 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
5021 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
5022 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
5023 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
5024 search with the '*' binding.
5026 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
5028 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
5029 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
5032 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
5034 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
5035 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
5036 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
5038 Build-system features
5039 ---------------------
5041 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
5043 Add support to configure for many standard options
5045 We include actual support for:
5047 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
5049 And accept and silently ignore several more:
5051 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
5052 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
5054 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
5055 separate "make install-emacs"
5057 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
5059 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
5060 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
5061 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
5063 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
5066 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
5067 ========================
5069 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
5071 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
5072 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
5074 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
5075 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
5076 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
5077 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
5078 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5079 tags from messages in a thread.
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