1 Notmuch 0.32.2 (UNRELASED)
2 ==========================
7 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
13 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
18 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
23 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
24 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
26 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
27 ===========================
32 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
33 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
34 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
36 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
37 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
38 database in a pre-new hook.
40 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
41 default worked only in "notmuch config".
46 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
47 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
49 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
50 =========================
55 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
56 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
57 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
58 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
59 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
60 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
61 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
62 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
63 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
64 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
65 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
70 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
71 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
73 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
74 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
75 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
76 - `notmuch_config_get`
78 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
79 now exposed (and generalized).
81 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
82 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
83 session has been fixed.
85 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
86 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
91 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
92 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
94 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
95 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
100 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
101 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
102 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
103 when prompting for senders.
105 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
106 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
109 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
111 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
113 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
114 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
115 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
116 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
117 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
118 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
119 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
121 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
122 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
124 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
125 you should change it to:
126 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
128 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
129 ===========================
134 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
139 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
141 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
142 ===========================
147 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
152 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
157 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
159 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
160 ===========================
165 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
166 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
168 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
169 ===========================
174 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
179 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
180 with a C++ header for some compilers.
182 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
184 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
185 =========================
190 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
191 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
192 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
194 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
196 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
198 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
200 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
203 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
205 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
206 search, show and tree mode)
208 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
211 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
214 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
215 always be newest first.
220 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
221 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
222 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
228 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
229 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
230 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
231 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
233 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
234 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
235 non-status providing versions.
237 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
238 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
240 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
241 promised in the documentation.
246 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
247 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
248 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
253 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
254 development version).
259 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
264 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
266 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
267 =========================
272 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
273 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
274 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
277 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
283 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
284 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
285 notmuch-properties(7)).
290 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
291 has protected headers (see
292 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
293 notmuch-properties(7)).
298 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
300 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
301 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
307 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
310 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
311 ===========================
316 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
318 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
323 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
325 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
326 ===========================
331 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
332 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
334 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
335 ===========================
340 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
342 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
343 =========================
348 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
349 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
352 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
353 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
354 the set of headers to be indexed.
356 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
359 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
360 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
361 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
364 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
365 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
366 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
368 Command Line Interface
369 ----------------------
371 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
374 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
376 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
377 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
378 more details about what is included there. This status includes
379 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
384 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
385 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
387 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
389 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
391 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
393 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
395 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
398 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
400 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
401 and may be removed in a future release.
403 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
409 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
411 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
412 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
417 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
418 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
419 cryptography support.
424 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
425 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
426 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
428 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
429 ===========================
431 Command line interface
432 ----------------------
434 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
435 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
437 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
438 ===========================
443 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
444 by message properties.
449 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
451 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
452 ===========================
457 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
462 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
463 now needed to build this documentation.
465 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
466 ===========================
471 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
472 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
474 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
475 =========================
482 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
483 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
484 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
485 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
486 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
489 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
491 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
492 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
493 correct encoding for such messages.
495 Command Line Interface
496 ----------------------
498 Support relative database paths
500 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
501 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
502 to $HOME of the invoking user.
507 Improve stderr handling
509 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
510 needed on e.g. macOS.
512 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
514 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
519 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
520 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
526 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
527 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
533 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
534 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
537 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
538 =========================
543 Add support for thread:{} queries
545 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
546 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
547 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
549 Command Line Interface
550 ----------------------
552 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
554 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
556 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
558 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
559 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
560 does not have to be available during message receipt.
565 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
571 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
572 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
574 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
575 ===========================
580 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
582 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
583 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
584 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
586 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
588 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
589 related abort in `notmuch show`.
591 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
592 ===========================
597 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
598 better late than never.
601 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
602 =========================
604 Command Line Interface
605 ----------------------
607 Support for re-indexing existing messages
609 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
610 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
611 change the way specific messages are indexed.
613 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
614 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
615 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
617 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
619 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
621 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
623 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
624 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
625 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
626 the setting of `new.tags`.
628 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
630 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
632 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
634 This inserts into the top level folder.
636 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
638 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
640 New option --output=address for notmuch address
642 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
644 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
646 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
647 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
648 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
650 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
655 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
657 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
658 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
659 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
660 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
661 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
662 config set index.decrypt true".
664 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
665 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
666 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
667 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
668 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
669 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
670 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
671 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
673 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
674 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
675 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
676 this feature without considering the security of your index.
681 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
683 Use make-process when available
685 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
686 notmuch command without using temporary files.
691 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
693 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
694 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
695 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
696 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
698 New functions to count files
700 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
701 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
703 New function to remove properties
705 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
706 drop all properties with a common pattern:
707 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
709 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
711 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
712 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
713 possibility of NULL was not documented.
715 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
717 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
718 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
719 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
720 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
721 operator may decide to change from message to message.
728 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
729 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
730 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
736 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
738 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
739 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
741 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
743 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
745 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
747 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
752 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
753 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
755 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
756 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
757 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
758 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
759 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
760 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
765 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
767 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
768 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
769 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
770 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
772 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
773 ===========================
778 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
779 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
782 Command Line Interface
783 ----------------------
785 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
786 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
789 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
790 ===========================
792 Command Line Interface
793 ----------------------
795 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
796 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
801 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
804 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
805 ===========================
810 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
813 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
814 =========================
819 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
821 Skip HTML tags when indexing
823 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
825 Command Line Interface
826 ----------------------
828 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
830 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
835 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
837 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
838 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
841 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
846 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
848 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
849 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
851 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
853 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
854 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
857 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
859 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
861 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
863 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
864 ===========================
866 Command Line Interface
867 ----------------------
869 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
874 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
876 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
877 ===========================
882 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
884 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
885 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
888 Command Line Interface
889 ----------------------
891 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
893 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
895 Fix bug in dump header
897 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
898 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
899 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
904 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
906 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
907 =========================
912 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
914 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
917 Command Line Interface
918 ----------------------
920 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
922 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
923 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
924 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
926 New default output format to 3
928 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
929 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
930 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
931 default format changes.
936 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
938 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
939 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
940 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
941 or tree view to resume.
943 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
944 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
945 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
948 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
949 they were when you postponed in the final message.
953 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
954 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
955 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
956 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
957 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
961 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
962 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
963 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
964 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
965 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
966 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
970 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
971 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
973 Stop display of `application/*` parts
975 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
976 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
977 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
978 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
979 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
980 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
981 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
982 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
985 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
987 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
988 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
989 only tagged the current thread.)
991 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
993 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
994 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
995 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
997 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
999 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1000 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1001 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1002 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1003 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1004 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1005 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1007 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1009 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1010 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1011 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1016 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1018 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1021 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1023 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1026 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1027 ===========================
1032 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1034 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1035 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1036 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1039 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1040 ===========================
1042 Command Line Interface
1043 ----------------------
1045 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1050 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1052 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1053 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1054 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1056 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1057 ===========================
1062 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1063 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1065 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1066 ===========================
1068 Command Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1071 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1073 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1074 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1075 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1080 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1082 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1083 ===========================
1085 Command Line Interface
1086 ----------------------
1088 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1093 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1095 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1096 ===========================
1101 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1103 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1104 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1105 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1107 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1109 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1111 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1112 ===========================
1117 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1119 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1124 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1126 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1127 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1128 the original colours.
1130 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1131 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1133 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1135 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1136 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1137 bug, and hence the test.
1139 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1140 =========================
1142 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1143 ---------------------
1145 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1147 Support for single argument date: queries
1149 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1151 Support for blocking opens
1153 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1154 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1156 Support for named queries
1158 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1159 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1160 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1165 Message property API
1167 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1168 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1169 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1170 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1172 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1174 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1179 Support for compile time options
1181 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1182 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1185 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1187 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1188 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1189 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1190 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1191 scripts to ignore it.
1196 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1198 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1199 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1200 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1202 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1203 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1204 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1205 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1206 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1207 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1208 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1210 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1211 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1214 Make internal address completion customizable
1216 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1217 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1218 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1219 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1222 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1224 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1225 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1226 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1227 completion for the current buffer.
1229 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1230 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1231 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1235 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1236 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1237 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1238 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1239 will be added instead.
1241 Face customization is easier
1243 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1244 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1245 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1246 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1248 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1253 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1258 Go bindings moved to contrib
1260 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1262 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1264 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1265 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1267 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1269 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1270 ===========================
1277 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1278 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1280 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1282 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1284 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1285 ===========================
1290 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1292 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1297 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1302 Use `env` to locate perl.
1307 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1309 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1311 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1313 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1315 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1316 =========================
1323 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1324 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1326 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1328 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1329 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1330 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1335 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1336 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1337 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1339 Command Line Interface
1340 ----------------------
1342 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1344 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1349 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1354 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1356 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1357 parts are now included in replies.
1359 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1360 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1361 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1362 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1364 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1366 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1368 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1370 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1371 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1372 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1373 forwards only the current message.
1375 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1377 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1378 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1379 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1380 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1381 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1382 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1383 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1384 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1387 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1388 longer generate empty buffers
1390 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1391 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1392 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1393 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1394 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1396 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1398 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1401 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1403 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1406 Address completion improvements
1408 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1409 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1410 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1411 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1412 interactive address completion.
1414 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1416 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1417 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1418 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1423 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1424 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1425 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1431 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1432 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1433 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1434 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1435 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1436 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1438 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1439 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1440 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1441 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1442 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1443 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1445 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1446 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1448 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1449 =========================
1454 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1457 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1459 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1460 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1461 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1463 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1464 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1466 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1467 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1468 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1470 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1472 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1473 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1474 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1475 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1476 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1477 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1482 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1483 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1486 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1487 option to configure.
1489 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1491 Command Line Interface
1492 ----------------------
1494 Database revision tracking
1496 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1497 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1498 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1499 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1501 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1503 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1504 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1505 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1506 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1507 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1508 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1509 manual page for further information.
1514 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1516 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1517 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1519 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1521 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1522 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1523 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1525 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1527 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1529 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1530 customization as well.
1532 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1534 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1536 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1538 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1540 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1541 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1542 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1543 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1545 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1547 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1548 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1549 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1550 this variable to 10000.
1555 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1556 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1558 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1560 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1561 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1562 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1563 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1564 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1565 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1566 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1567 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1568 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1571 Database revision tracking
1573 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1574 query parser and the new function
1575 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1577 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1579 Deprecated functions
1581 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1582 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1583 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1584 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1589 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1591 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1592 ===========================
1597 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1599 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1600 ===========================
1605 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1607 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1608 =========================
1610 Command-Line Interface
1611 ----------------------
1613 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1615 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1616 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1617 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1619 Path to gpg is now configurable
1621 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1622 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1627 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1629 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1634 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1639 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1644 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1646 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1647 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1649 New error logging facility
1651 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1652 output formerly printed to stderr.
1654 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1656 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1658 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1660 Fix for rounding of seconds
1665 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1667 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1668 documentation has been removed.
1670 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1672 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1673 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1678 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1679 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1680 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1685 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1686 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1687 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1688 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1689 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1690 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1693 git checkout config origin/config
1695 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1697 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1698 =========================
1703 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1704 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1705 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1706 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1707 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1708 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1709 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1711 Command-Line Interface
1712 ----------------------
1714 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1716 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1717 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1718 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1719 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1720 script callers should still check the return value.
1722 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1724 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1725 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1726 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1727 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1728 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1729 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1730 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1732 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1734 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1735 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1736 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1738 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1740 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1741 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1742 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1743 currently unmaintained.
1745 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1747 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1748 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1749 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1750 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1752 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1754 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1755 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1756 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1757 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1758 count of duplicate addresses.
1763 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1765 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1766 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1767 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1770 Improved handling of the unread tag
1772 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1773 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1774 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1775 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1776 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1777 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1778 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1780 Expanded default saved search settings
1782 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1783 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1785 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1787 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1788 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1789 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1791 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1793 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1794 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1795 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1796 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1797 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1798 the variable for details.
1803 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1805 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1806 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1807 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1808 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1810 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1812 Previously, library users were required to call
1813 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1814 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1815 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1816 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1817 too out of date for that API.
1819 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1821 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1822 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1823 atomic section will be aborted.
1825 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1826 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1828 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1830 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1831 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1832 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1833 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1834 messages into the same thread.
1839 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1840 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1841 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1842 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1843 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1844 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1849 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1850 from the config file. Use something like:
1854 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1855 "footer": "</body></html>",
1864 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1869 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1870 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1871 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1873 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1874 ===========================
1879 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1881 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1883 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1885 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1886 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1888 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1890 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1893 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1894 ===========================
1896 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1901 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1903 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1905 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1907 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1909 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1915 Use --quick when starting emacs
1917 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1919 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1921 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1923 Command-Line Interface
1924 ----------------------
1926 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1927 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1932 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1934 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1935 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1937 Fix for phrase indexing
1939 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1940 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1941 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1946 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1948 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1949 unintentionally removed.
1951 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1952 =========================
1957 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1958 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1959 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1960 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1961 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1962 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1963 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1964 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1965 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1971 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1973 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1974 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1975 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1976 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1977 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1978 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1979 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1980 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1982 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1984 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1985 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1986 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1987 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1990 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1992 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1993 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1994 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1995 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1996 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1997 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1998 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2003 Notmuch database upgrade
2005 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2006 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2007 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2008 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2009 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2010 released version of Notmuch before now.
2012 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2014 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2015 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2016 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2017 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2019 Message header parsing changes
2021 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2022 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2023 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2024 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2025 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2026 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2028 Command-Line Interface
2029 ----------------------
2031 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2033 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2035 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2037 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2039 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2041 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2042 user does not want it.
2044 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2046 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2047 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2048 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2049 support formatted output.
2051 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2053 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2054 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2055 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2063 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2064 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2065 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2066 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2067 `~/.emacs` with these.
2069 Changed format for saved searches
2071 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2072 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2073 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2074 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2077 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2078 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2079 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2080 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2082 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2083 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2084 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2086 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2087 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2088 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2089 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2090 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2092 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2094 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2095 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2096 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2098 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2100 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2101 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2102 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2103 message had been unread).
2105 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2106 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2107 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2108 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2110 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2111 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2112 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2114 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2115 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2116 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2117 to tags already present.
2121 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2122 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2123 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2124 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2125 these differ from each other.
2126 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2128 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2130 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2131 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2132 for these Emacs versions.
2134 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2136 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2137 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2139 Bug fixes for sender identities
2141 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2142 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2143 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2145 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2147 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2148 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2149 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2150 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2152 Reply pushes mark before signature
2154 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2155 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2156 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2158 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2160 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2161 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2167 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2168 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2170 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2171 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2172 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2173 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2175 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2176 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2177 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2178 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2179 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2181 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2183 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2184 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2186 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2187 =========================
2189 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2190 ---------------------------------------
2192 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2193 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2194 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2195 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2196 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2197 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2198 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2202 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2203 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2205 Command-Line Interface
2206 ----------------------
2208 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2210 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2211 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2212 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2213 print for each message.
2215 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2216 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2217 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2218 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2220 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2222 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2223 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2224 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2226 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2228 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2229 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2230 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2231 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2233 `notmuch compact` command
2235 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2236 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2237 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2238 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2239 move the compacted database into place.
2244 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2246 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2247 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2248 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2249 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2250 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2251 and multiple threads.
2253 Using `notmuch-tree`
2255 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2257 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2258 search, show and tree mode itself)
2260 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2263 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2264 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2266 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2268 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2269 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2270 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2271 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2272 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2273 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2274 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2276 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2278 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2279 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2280 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2281 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2282 thread when the search was performed.
2284 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2286 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2287 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2288 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2290 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2292 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2293 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2296 Built-in help improvements
2298 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2299 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2300 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2302 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2304 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2305 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2306 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2308 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2310 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2311 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2313 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2315 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2316 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2317 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2318 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2320 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2322 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2323 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2324 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2325 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2327 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2329 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2330 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2331 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2333 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2335 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2336 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2337 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2339 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2341 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2342 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2343 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2344 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2345 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2347 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2349 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2350 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2351 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2352 the body part of the message.
2357 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2358 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2359 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2361 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2362 =========================
2364 Command-Line Interface
2365 ----------------------
2367 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2369 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2370 folder and notmuch index.
2372 `notmuch count --batch` option
2374 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2375 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2377 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2379 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2380 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2381 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2384 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2386 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2387 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2388 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2389 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2390 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2393 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2395 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2396 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2398 Top level option to specify configuration file
2400 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2401 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2403 Bash command-line completion
2405 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2406 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2407 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2408 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2409 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2410 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2411 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2412 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2413 bash-completion package.
2415 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2420 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2422 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2423 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2424 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2425 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2426 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2427 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2428 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2429 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2431 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2433 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2434 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2435 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2437 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2439 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2440 previous thread in the search results.
2442 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2444 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2445 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2447 Faster search and show
2449 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2450 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2451 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2452 threads should show faster.
2456 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2457 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2458 in question was now removed from this release.
2463 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2464 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2469 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2471 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2472 ===========================
2477 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2479 Internal test framework changes
2480 -------------------------------
2482 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2483 being unimplemented.
2485 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2486 ===========================
2488 Internal test framework changes
2489 -------------------------------
2491 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2492 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2494 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2495 =========================
2500 Date range search support
2502 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2503 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2504 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2505 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2506 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2509 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2511 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2512 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2513 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2514 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2515 but may be removed in a future release.
2517 Command-Line Interface
2518 ----------------------
2520 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2522 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2523 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2525 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2527 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2528 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2529 officially deprecated.
2531 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2533 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2534 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2535 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2537 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2539 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2540 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2543 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2544 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2545 dump/restore format.
2547 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2549 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2550 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2551 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2553 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2555 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2556 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2557 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2559 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2561 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2562 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2563 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2564 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2569 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2571 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2572 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2573 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2574 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2576 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2578 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2579 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2580 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2581 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2582 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2583 the behavior of this, see
2584 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2585 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2587 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2588 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2589 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2591 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2593 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2594 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2597 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2599 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2600 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2601 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2602 simply displayed in place of the message.
2604 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2606 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2607 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2609 Improved text/calendar content handling
2611 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2612 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2613 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2614 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2616 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2618 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2619 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2620 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2621 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2623 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2625 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2626 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2627 for HTML email containing images.
2629 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2631 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2633 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2635 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2638 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2640 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2641 the point where it was.
2643 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2645 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2646 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2647 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2648 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2649 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2651 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2653 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2654 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2655 thread instead of the message id.
2657 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2658 -----------------------------
2660 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2661 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2662 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2663 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2664 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2665 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2666 further details and installation.
2671 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2673 Internal test framework changes
2674 -------------------------------
2676 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2678 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2679 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2680 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2681 can result in buggy behavior.
2683 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2684 =========================
2689 Maildir tag synchronization
2691 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2692 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2693 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2694 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2695 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2696 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2699 Command-Line Interface
2700 ----------------------
2702 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2703 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2704 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2705 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2706 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2712 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2714 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2716 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2717 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2718 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2720 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2722 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2723 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2724 span multiple lines.
2726 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2728 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2729 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2730 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2731 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2732 inside the result or message.
2734 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2736 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2737 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2739 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2740 user-specified formatting
2742 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2743 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2744 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2745 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2746 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2748 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2749 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2751 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2752 ===========================
2757 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2758 compilation error for this contrib package.
2760 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2761 ===========================
2766 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2768 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2769 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2770 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2771 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2773 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2774 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2777 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2778 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2779 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2780 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2783 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2785 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2788 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2789 =========================
2791 Command-Line Interface
2792 ----------------------
2796 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2797 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2798 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2799 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2801 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2802 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2803 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2804 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2808 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2809 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2811 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2812 tag in your query, for example:
2814 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2816 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2817 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2819 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2820 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2822 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2824 Raw show format changes
2826 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2827 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2828 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2829 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2830 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2831 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2832 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2833 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2835 Listing configuration items
2837 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2843 Changes to tagging interface
2845 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2846 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2847 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2848 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2849 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2850 for more information.
2852 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2853 may need to update in custom configurations.
2855 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2857 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2858 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2859 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2860 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2863 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2864 -----------------------------
2866 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2867 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2868 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2869 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2870 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2871 contrib/ from now on.
2876 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2877 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2879 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2880 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2882 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2883 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2884 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2886 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2887 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2889 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2890 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2891 returning the new database object or directory object.
2898 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2899 compatible with go 1.
2901 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2902 =========================
2904 Command-Line Interface
2905 ----------------------
2909 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2910 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2911 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2912 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2914 Mail store folder/file ignore
2916 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2917 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2918 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2920 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2921 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2923 Unified help and manual pages
2925 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2926 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2929 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2931 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2932 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2940 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2941 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2942 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2943 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2945 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2947 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2948 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2950 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2953 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2954 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2955 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2957 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2959 should be changed to:
2961 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2963 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2965 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2966 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2968 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2970 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2971 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2972 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2973 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2974 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2975 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2979 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2980 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2981 of Mailing List Archives.
2983 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2985 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2986 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2989 Show view archiving key binding changes
2991 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2992 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2993 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2994 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2995 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2998 Support text/calendar MIME type
3000 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3003 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3005 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3006 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3007 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3008 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3010 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3012 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3013 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3014 messages blue by default in the search view.
3018 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3019 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3026 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3029 Python bindings changes
3030 -----------------------
3032 Python 3.2 compatibility
3034 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3036 Added missing unicode conversions
3038 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3039 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3040 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3045 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3047 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3048 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3049 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3050 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3051 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3053 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3054 ===========================
3059 Fix error handling in python bindings
3061 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3062 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3063 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3064 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3066 Quote MML tags in replies
3068 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3069 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3070 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3071 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3072 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3073 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3074 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3075 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3077 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3078 =========================
3080 Command-Line Interface
3081 ----------------------
3085 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3086 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3087 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3088 importing new messages into the database.
3090 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3092 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3093 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3094 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3099 Automatic tag query optimization
3101 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3102 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3103 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3105 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3107 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3108 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3109 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3114 Reduction of memory leaks
3116 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3117 and fixed in this release.
3124 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3125 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3126 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3129 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3131 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3132 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3133 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3136 Improvements in saved search management
3138 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3139 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3140 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3142 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3144 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3145 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3146 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3148 New face for crypto parts headers
3150 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3151 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3152 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3155 Use space as default thousands separator
3157 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3158 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3159 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3161 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3162 buttonized id: links
3164 New function notmuch-show-advance
3166 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3167 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3168 be bound to SPC with:
3170 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3172 Various performance improvements
3177 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3178 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3181 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3182 ===========================
3187 Fix crash in python bindings
3189 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3190 for some, but not all users.
3192 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3193 ===========================
3198 Fix `--help` argument
3200 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3201 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3202 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3204 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3205 =========================
3207 New build and testing features
3208 ------------------------------
3210 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3211 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3212 prerequisites is improved.
3214 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3216 New command-line features
3217 -------------------------
3219 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3221 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3222 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3225 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3227 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3228 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3229 favour of using stdout.
3231 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3233 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3234 limit the number of results shown.
3236 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3238 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3239 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3242 New emacs UI features
3243 ---------------------
3245 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3247 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3248 starting with "tag:".
3250 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3252 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3253 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3255 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3257 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3259 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3261 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3262 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3267 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3269 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3271 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3272 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3273 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3274 requires a database rebuild:
3276 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3277 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3279 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3281 New collection of add-on tools
3282 ------------------------------
3284 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3285 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3286 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3289 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3291 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3292 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3293 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3295 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3296 ========================
3298 New, general features
3299 ---------------------
3301 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3303 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3304 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3305 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3306 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3307 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3314 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3315 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3317 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3321 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3322 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3323 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3326 Python bindings changes
3327 -----------------------
3329 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3331 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3332 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3333 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3334 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3335 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3336 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3338 Ruby bindings changes
3339 ---------------------
3341 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3342 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3343 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3344 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3349 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3351 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3352 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3354 Reply formatting cleanup
3355 ------------------------
3357 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3358 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3360 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3361 ========================
3363 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3365 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3366 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3367 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3368 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3371 Improved Build system portability
3373 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3374 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3375 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3377 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3379 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3381 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3383 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3384 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3385 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3387 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3388 ========================
3390 Vim interface improvements
3391 --------------------------
3393 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3395 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3396 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3397 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3398 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3399 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3401 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3403 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3404 * fix compose temp file name
3406 Python Bindings changes
3407 -----------------------
3409 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3411 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3412 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3414 Build-System improvements
3415 -------------------------
3417 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3419 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3422 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3423 ==========================
3428 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3430 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3431 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3433 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3434 =======================
3436 New, general features
3437 ---------------------
3439 Folder-based searching
3441 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3442 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3443 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3447 For example, one might use things such as:
3453 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3454 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3456 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3457 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3458 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3459 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3461 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3462 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3463 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3466 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3467 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3469 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3471 Support for PGP/MIME
3473 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3474 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3475 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3477 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3479 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3480 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3482 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3483 notmuch will receive these tags.
3485 New command-line features
3486 -------------------------
3488 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3490 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3491 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3493 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3495 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3496 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3497 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3499 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3501 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3502 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3503 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3504 which parts a signature part applies).
3506 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3508 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3509 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3510 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3511 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3512 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3515 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3517 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3518 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3519 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3520 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3521 by translating it internally to the new call.
3523 Performance improvements
3524 ------------------------
3526 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3528 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3529 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3530 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3532 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3533 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3535 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3537 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3538 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3539 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3541 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3542 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3543 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3544 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3546 Faster initial indexing
3548 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3549 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3550 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3552 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3554 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3555 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3556 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3557 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3559 New emacs-interface features
3560 ----------------------------
3562 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3564 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3565 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3566 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3567 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3568 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3569 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3571 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3573 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3574 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3575 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3576 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3578 User-selectable From address
3580 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3581 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3582 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3583 will prompt for the from address to use.
3585 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3586 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3587 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3589 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3590 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3591 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3594 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3596 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3597 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3599 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3601 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3603 ----- Original Message -----
3605 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3606 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3607 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3608 citations work much like conventional citations.
3610 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3612 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3613 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3614 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3615 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3616 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3618 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3619 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3621 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3623 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3624 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3625 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3627 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3629 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3630 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3631 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3632 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3633 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3635 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3637 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3640 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3642 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3644 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3646 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3649 Vim interface improvements
3650 --------------------------
3652 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3654 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3655 * Implementing archive in show view
3656 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3657 * Add delete commands
3660 Bindings improvements
3661 ---------------------
3663 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3665 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3666 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3668 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3670 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3674 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3675 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3676 `list(Messages)` works now
3677 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3679 These allow, for example:
3681 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3683 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3685 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3691 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3693 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3696 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3698 New build-system features
3699 -------------------------
3701 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3703 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3704 the configure script from some other directory:
3711 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3713 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3714 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3715 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3716 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3717 manual invocation of configure.
3719 New test-suite feature
3720 ----------------------
3722 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3724 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3725 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3726 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3727 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3728 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3731 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3733 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3734 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3735 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3736 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3737 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3738 are updated to take advantage of this.
3740 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3742 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3743 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3744 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3745 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3751 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3753 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3754 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3755 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3757 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3759 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3761 to:user@elsewhere.com
3763 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3765 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3767 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3769 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3770 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3771 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3774 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3775 from the Received headers in some cases
3777 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3778 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3780 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3782 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3784 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3786 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3787 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3788 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3790 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3791 -------------------------
3793 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3795 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3796 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3797 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3799 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3801 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3802 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3803 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3806 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3808 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3809 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3810 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3811 fixed to avoid this bug.
3813 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3815 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3816 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3818 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3819 ========================
3821 New, general features
3822 ---------------------
3824 Maildir-flag synchronization
3826 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3827 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3836 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3838 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3839 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3840 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3841 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3843 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3844 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3845 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3846 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3849 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3851 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3852 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3853 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3855 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3856 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3858 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3859 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3861 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3862 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3863 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3865 New library features
3866 --------------------
3868 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3870 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3871 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3872 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3873 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3875 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3876 message with the new function:
3878 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3880 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3881 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3882 over all available filenames for a given message.
3884 New command-line features
3885 -------------------------
3887 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3889 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3890 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3891 access to the mail store itself.
3893 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3894 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3895 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3896 name of a script containing:
3898 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3900 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3901 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3907 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3909 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3911 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3913 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3914 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3915 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3916 now produces nothing).
3918 Emacs interface improvements
3919 ----------------------------
3921 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3923 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3925 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3927 Display current thread subject in a header line
3929 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3931 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3933 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3934 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3935 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3936 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3937 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3938 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3939 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3941 Vim interface improvements
3942 --------------------------
3944 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3946 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3947 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3953 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3955 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3956 ========================
3958 New command-line features
3959 -------------------------
3961 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3963 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3964 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3965 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3967 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3968 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3969 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3970 scripts. For example:
3972 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3973 <operations-on> "$file"
3976 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3978 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3979 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3980 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3981 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3982 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3983 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3985 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3987 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3988 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3989 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3990 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3992 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3994 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3995 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3996 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3997 default rather than Bcc.
3999 New library features
4000 --------------------
4002 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4004 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4005 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4010 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4012 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4013 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4014 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4015 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4016 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4017 notmuch customize interface.
4019 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4021 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4022 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4023 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4024 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4026 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4028 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4029 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4030 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4031 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4033 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4035 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4036 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4037 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4038 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4039 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4040 notmuch customize interface.
4042 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4044 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4045 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4046 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4047 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4048 notmuch customize interface.
4050 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4052 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4053 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4054 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4055 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4058 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4060 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4061 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4062 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4065 New build-system features
4066 -------------------------
4068 Various portability fixes have been applied
4070 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4071 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4072 more portable than ever before.
4074 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4076 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4077 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4078 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4080 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4081 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4082 automatically run ldconfig.
4084 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4085 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4086 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4088 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4089 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4090 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4091 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4093 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4095 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4096 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4097 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4098 used in the resulting Makefile.
4100 New test-suite features
4101 -----------------------
4103 New modularization of test suite
4105 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4106 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4107 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4108 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4109 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4110 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4111 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4112 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4114 New testing of emacs interface
4116 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4117 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4118 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4119 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4120 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4121 database via the FCC setting.
4126 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4128 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4129 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4130 persistent error of the form:
4132 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4134 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4135 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4137 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4139 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4140 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4141 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4143 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4145 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4146 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4147 parsing the notmuch results).
4149 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4151 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4154 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4155 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4156 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4161 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4163 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4164 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4165 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4166 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4167 the emacs interface.
4169 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4171 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4172 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4173 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4175 Python-binding fixes
4176 --------------------
4178 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4180 Debian-specific fixes
4181 ---------------------
4183 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4185 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4186 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4187 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4190 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4191 ==========================
4196 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4198 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4199 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4200 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4201 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4203 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4205 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4206 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4207 want notmuch to crash.
4212 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4214 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4215 directory does not exist
4220 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4222 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4223 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4225 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4226 ========================
4228 New command-line features
4229 -------------------------
4231 User-configurable tags for new messages
4233 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4234 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4235 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4236 to specify this value.
4238 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4240 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4241 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4242 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4244 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4246 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4247 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4249 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4251 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4252 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4253 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4254 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4255 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4258 Indication of author names that match a search
4260 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4261 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4262 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4263 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4264 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4265 messages in the thread are listed first.
4267 New: Python bindings
4268 --------------------
4270 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4271 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4272 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4273 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4275 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4276 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4277 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4280 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4281 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4282 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4284 Emacs interface improvements
4285 ----------------------------
4287 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4289 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4290 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4291 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4292 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4293 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4294 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4295 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4296 but without any of the disadvantages).
4298 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4299 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4300 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4303 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4304 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4305 instead running something like:
4307 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4309 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4310 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4311 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4314 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4316 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4317 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4318 tweaked by the user.
4320 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4321 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4322 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4325 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4326 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4327 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4330 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4332 This support currently relies on an external program,
4333 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4334 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4335 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4336 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4337 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4340 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4341 notmuch) is available via:
4343 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4345 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4346 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4347 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4349 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4351 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4352 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4353 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4354 making this automatic in a future release.
4356 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4358 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4359 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4360 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4361 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4362 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4363 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4366 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4368 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4369 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4370 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4372 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4374 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4375 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4376 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4378 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4379 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4380 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4381 other representation.
4383 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4384 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4387 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4389 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4390 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4391 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4393 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4394 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4395 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4397 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4399 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4400 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4401 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4402 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4403 to display the search result.
4405 More flexible handling of header visibility
4407 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4408 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4409 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4410 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4411 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4412 with the 'h' keybinding.
4414 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4415 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4416 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4418 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4420 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4422 Customizable formatting of search results
4424 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4425 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4426 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4428 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4430 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4432 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4437 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4439 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4440 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4441 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4442 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4448 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4450 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4451 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4453 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4455 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4456 accept are now all accepted.
4461 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4463 Better display of output from failed tests
4465 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4466 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4468 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4469 ========================
4471 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4472 detailed release notes this time!
4474 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4475 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4477 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4478 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4479 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4480 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4487 Better guessing of From: header
4489 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4490 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4491 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4492 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4493 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4496 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4498 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4499 guaranteed to match all messages.
4501 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4503 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4504 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4505 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4506 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4507 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4510 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4513 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4514 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4515 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4516 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4521 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4523 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4524 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4525 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4526 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4528 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4530 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4532 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4533 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4534 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4536 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4538 Previously, the user might see:
4540 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4544 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4546 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4547 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4548 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4549 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4551 Emacs client features
4552 ---------------------
4554 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4556 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4557 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4558 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4559 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4560 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4562 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4565 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4566 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4567 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4568 search with the '*' binding.
4570 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4572 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4573 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4576 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4578 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4579 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4580 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4582 Build-system features
4583 ---------------------
4585 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4587 Add support to configure for many standard options
4589 We include actual support for:
4591 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4593 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4595 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4596 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4598 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4599 separate "make install-emacs"
4601 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4603 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4604 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4605 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4607 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4610 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4611 ========================
4613 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4615 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4616 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4618 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4619 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4620 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4621 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4622 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4623 tags from messages in a thread.
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