1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
9 Support for single argument date: queries
11 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
13 Support for blocking opens
15 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
16 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
18 Support for named queries
20 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
21 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
22 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
29 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
30 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
31 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
32 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
34 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
36 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
41 Support for compile time options
43 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
44 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
47 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
49 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
50 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
51 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
52 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
60 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
61 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
62 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
63 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
64 will be added instead.
66 Face customization is easier
68 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
69 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
70 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
71 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
73 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
78 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
83 Go bindings moved to contrib
85 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
87 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
89 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
90 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
92 The same issue occured with sort modes.
94 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
95 ===========================
102 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
103 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
105 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
107 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
109 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
110 ===========================
115 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
117 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
122 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
127 Use `env` to locate perl.
132 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
134 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
136 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
138 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
140 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
141 =========================
148 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
149 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
151 Limited support for S/MIME messages
153 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
154 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
155 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
160 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
161 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
162 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
164 Command Line Interface
165 ----------------------
167 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
169 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
174 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
179 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
181 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
182 parts are now included in replies.
184 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
185 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
186 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
187 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
189 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
191 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
193 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
195 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
196 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
197 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
198 forwards only the current message.
200 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
202 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
203 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
204 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
205 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
206 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
207 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
208 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
209 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
212 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
213 longer generate empty buffers
215 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
216 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
217 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
218 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
219 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
221 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
223 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
226 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
228 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
231 Address completion improvements
233 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
234 you previously configured one, customize the variable
235 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
236 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
237 interactive address completion.
239 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
241 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
242 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
243 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
248 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
249 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
250 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
256 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
257 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
258 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
259 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
260 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
261 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
263 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
264 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
265 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
266 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
267 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
268 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
270 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
271 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
273 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
274 =========================
279 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
282 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
284 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
285 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
286 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
288 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
289 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
291 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
292 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
293 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
295 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
297 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
298 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
299 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
300 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
301 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
302 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
307 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
308 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
311 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
314 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
316 Command Line Interface
317 ----------------------
319 Database revision tracking
321 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
322 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
323 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
324 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
326 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
328 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
329 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
330 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
331 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
332 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
333 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
334 manual page for further information.
339 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
341 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
342 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
344 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
346 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
347 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
348 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
350 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
352 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
354 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
355 customization as well.
357 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
359 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
361 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
363 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
365 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
366 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
367 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
368 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
370 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
372 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
373 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
374 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
375 this variable to 10000.
380 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
381 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
383 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
385 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
386 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
387 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
388 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
389 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
390 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
391 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
392 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
393 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
396 Database revision tracking
398 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
399 query parser and the new function
400 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
402 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
406 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
407 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
408 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
409 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
414 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
416 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
417 ===========================
422 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
424 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
425 ===========================
430 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
432 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
433 =========================
435 Command-Line Interface
436 ----------------------
438 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
440 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
441 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
442 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
444 Path to gpg is now configurable
446 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
447 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
452 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
454 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
459 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
464 Support messages without Message-IDs.
469 Undeprecate single message mboxes
471 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
472 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
474 New error logging facility
476 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
477 output formerly printed to stderr.
479 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
481 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
483 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
485 Fix for rounding of seconds
490 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
492 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
493 docmumentation has been removed.
495 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
497 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
498 some material from the relicensed wiki.
503 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
504 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
505 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
510 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
511 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
512 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
513 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
514 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
515 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
518 git checkout config origin/config
520 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
522 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
523 =========================
528 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
529 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
530 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
531 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
532 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
533 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
534 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
536 Command-Line Interface
537 ----------------------
539 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
541 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
542 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
543 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
544 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
545 script callers should still check the return value.
547 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
549 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
550 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
551 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
552 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
553 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
554 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
555 and returning success even if indexing fails).
557 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
559 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
560 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
561 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
563 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
565 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
566 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
567 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
568 currently unmaintained.
570 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
572 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
573 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
574 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
575 have at least `N` files associated with them.
577 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
579 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
580 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
581 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
582 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
583 count of duplicate addresses.
588 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
590 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
591 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
592 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
595 Improved handling of the unread tag
597 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
598 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
599 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
600 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
601 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
602 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
603 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
605 Expanded default saved search settings
607 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
608 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
610 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
612 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
613 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
614 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
616 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
618 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
619 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
620 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
621 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
622 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
623 the variable for details.
628 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
630 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
631 Representing these independently of the database version number will
632 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
633 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
635 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
637 Previously, library users were required to call
638 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
639 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
640 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
641 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
642 too out of date for that API.
644 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
646 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
647 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
648 atomic section will be aborted.
650 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
651 `notmuch_database_destroy`
653 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
655 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
656 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
657 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
658 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
659 messages into the same thread.
664 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
665 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
666 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
667 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
668 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
669 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
674 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
675 from the config file. Use something like:
679 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
680 "footer": "</body></html>",
689 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
694 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
695 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
696 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
698 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
699 ===========================
704 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
706 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
708 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
710 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
711 structure for signatures changed slightly.
713 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
715 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
718 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
719 ===========================
721 This is a bug fix and portability release.
726 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
728 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
730 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
732 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
734 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
740 Use --quick when starting emacs
742 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
744 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
746 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
748 Command-Line Interface
749 ----------------------
751 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
752 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
757 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
759 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
760 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
762 Fix for phrase indexing
764 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
765 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
766 will affect only newly indexed messages.
771 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
773 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
774 unintentionally removed.
776 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
777 =========================
782 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
783 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
784 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
785 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
786 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
787 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
788 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
789 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
790 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
796 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
798 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
799 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
800 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
801 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
802 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
803 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
804 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
805 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
807 There is a new `path:` search prefix
809 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
810 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
811 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
812 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
815 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
817 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
818 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
819 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
820 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
821 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
822 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
823 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
828 Notmuch database upgrade
830 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
831 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
832 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
833 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
834 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
835 released version of Notmuch before now.
837 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
839 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
840 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
841 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
842 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
844 Message header parsing changes
846 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
847 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
848 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
849 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
850 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
851 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
853 Command-Line Interface
854 ----------------------
856 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
858 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
860 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
862 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
864 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
866 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
867 user does not want it.
869 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
871 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
872 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
873 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
874 support formatted output.
876 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
878 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
879 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
880 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
888 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
889 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
890 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
891 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
892 `~/.emacs` with these.
894 Changed format for saved searches
896 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
897 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
898 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
899 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
902 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
903 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
904 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
905 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
907 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
908 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
909 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
911 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
912 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
913 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
914 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
915 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
917 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
919 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
920 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
921 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
923 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
925 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
926 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
927 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
928 message had been unread).
930 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
931 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
932 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
933 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
935 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
936 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
937 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
939 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
940 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
941 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
942 to tags already present.
946 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
947 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
948 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
949 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
950 these differ from each other.
951 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
953 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
955 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
956 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
957 for these Emacs versions.
959 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
961 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
962 newlines before calling notmuch count.
964 Bug fixes for sender identities
966 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
967 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
968 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
970 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
972 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
973 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
974 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
975 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
977 Reply pushes mark before signature
979 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
980 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
981 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
983 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
985 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
986 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
992 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
993 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
995 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
996 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
997 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
998 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1000 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1001 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1002 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1003 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1004 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1006 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1008 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1009 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1011 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1012 =========================
1014 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1015 ---------------------------------------
1017 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1018 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1019 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1020 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1021 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1022 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1023 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1027 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1028 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1030 Command-Line Interface
1031 ----------------------
1033 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1035 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1036 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1037 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1038 print for each message.
1040 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1041 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1042 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1043 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1045 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1047 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1048 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1049 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1051 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1053 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1054 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1055 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1056 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1058 `notmuch compact` command
1060 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1061 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1062 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1063 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1064 move the compacted database into place.
1069 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1071 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1072 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1073 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1074 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1075 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1076 and multiple threads.
1078 Using `notmuch-tree`
1080 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1082 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1083 search, show and tree mode itself)
1085 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1088 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1089 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1091 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1093 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1094 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1095 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1096 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1097 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1098 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1099 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1101 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1103 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1104 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1105 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1106 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1107 thread when the search was performed.
1109 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1111 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1112 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1113 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1115 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1117 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1118 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1121 Built-in help improvements
1123 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1124 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1125 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1127 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1129 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1130 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1131 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1133 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1135 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1136 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1138 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1140 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1141 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1142 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1143 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1145 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1147 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1148 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1149 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1150 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1152 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1154 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1155 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1156 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1158 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1160 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1161 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1162 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1164 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1166 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1167 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1168 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1169 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1170 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1172 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1174 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1175 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1176 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1177 the body part of the message.
1182 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1183 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1184 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1186 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1187 =========================
1189 Command-Line Interface
1190 ----------------------
1192 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1194 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1195 folder and notmuch index.
1197 `notmuch count --batch` option
1199 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1200 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1202 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1204 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1205 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1206 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1209 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1211 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1212 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1213 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1214 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1215 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1218 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1220 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1221 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1223 Top level option to specify configuration file
1225 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1226 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1228 Bash command-line completion
1230 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1231 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1232 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1233 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1234 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1235 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1236 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1237 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1238 bash-completion package.
1240 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1245 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1247 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1248 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1249 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1250 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1251 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1252 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1253 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1254 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1256 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1258 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1259 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1260 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1262 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1264 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1265 previous thread in the search results.
1267 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1269 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1270 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1272 Faster search and show
1274 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1275 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1276 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1277 threads should show faster.
1281 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1282 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1283 in question was now removed from this release.
1288 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1289 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1294 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1296 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1297 ===========================
1302 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1304 Internal test framework changes
1305 -------------------------------
1307 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1308 being unimplemented.
1310 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1311 ===========================
1313 Internal test framework changes
1314 -------------------------------
1316 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1317 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1319 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1320 =========================
1325 Date range search support
1327 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1328 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1329 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1330 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1331 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1334 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1336 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1337 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1338 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1339 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1340 but may be removed in a future release.
1342 Command-Line Interface
1343 ----------------------
1345 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1347 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1348 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1350 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1352 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1353 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1354 officially deprecated.
1356 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1358 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1359 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1360 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1362 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1364 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1365 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1368 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1369 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1370 dump/restore format.
1372 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1374 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1375 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1376 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1378 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1380 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1381 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1382 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1384 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1386 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1387 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1388 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1389 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1394 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1396 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1397 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1398 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1399 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1401 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1403 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1404 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1405 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1406 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1407 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1408 the behavior of this, see
1409 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1410 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1412 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1413 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1414 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1416 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1418 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1419 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1422 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1424 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1425 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1426 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1427 simply displayed in place of the message.
1429 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1431 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1432 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1434 Improved text/calendar content handling
1436 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1437 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1438 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1439 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1441 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1443 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1444 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1445 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1446 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1448 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1450 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1451 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1452 for HTML email containing images.
1454 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1456 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1458 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1460 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1463 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1465 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1466 the point where it was.
1468 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1470 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1471 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1472 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1473 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1474 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1476 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1478 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1479 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1480 thread instead of the message id.
1482 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1483 -----------------------------
1485 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1486 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1487 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1488 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1489 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1490 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1491 further details and installation.
1496 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1498 Internal test framework changes
1499 -------------------------------
1501 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1503 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1504 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1505 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1506 can result in buggy behavior.
1508 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1509 =========================
1514 Maildir tag synchronization
1516 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1517 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1518 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1519 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1520 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1521 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1524 Command-Line Interface
1525 ----------------------
1527 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1528 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1529 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1530 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1531 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1537 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1539 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1541 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1542 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1543 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1545 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1547 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1548 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1549 span multiple lines.
1551 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1553 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1554 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1555 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1556 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1557 inside the result or message.
1559 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1561 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1562 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1564 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1565 user-specified formatting
1567 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1568 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1569 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1570 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1571 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1573 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1574 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1576 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1577 ===========================
1582 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1583 compilation error for this contrib package.
1585 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1586 ===========================
1591 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1593 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1594 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1595 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1596 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1598 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1599 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1602 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1603 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1604 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1605 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1608 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1610 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1613 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1614 =========================
1616 Command-Line Interface
1617 ----------------------
1621 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1622 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1623 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1624 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1626 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1627 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1628 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1629 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1633 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1634 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1636 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1637 tag in your query, for example:
1639 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1641 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1642 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1644 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1645 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1647 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1649 Raw show format changes
1651 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1652 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1653 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1654 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1655 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1656 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1657 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1658 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1660 Listing configuration items
1662 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1668 Changes to tagging interface
1670 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1671 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1672 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1673 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1674 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1675 for more information.
1677 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1678 may need to update in custom configurations.
1680 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1682 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1683 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1684 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1685 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1688 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1689 -----------------------------
1691 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1692 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1693 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1694 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1695 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1696 contrib/ from now on.
1701 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1702 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1704 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1705 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1707 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1708 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1709 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1711 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1712 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1714 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1715 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1716 returning the new database object or directory object.
1723 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1724 compatible with go 1.
1726 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1727 =========================
1729 Command-Line Interface
1730 ----------------------
1734 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1735 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1736 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1737 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1739 Mail store folder/file ignore
1741 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1742 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1743 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1745 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1746 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1748 Unified help and manual pages
1750 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1751 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1754 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1756 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1757 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1765 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1766 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1767 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1768 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1770 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1772 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1773 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1775 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1778 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1779 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1780 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1782 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1784 should be changed to:
1786 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1788 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1790 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1791 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1793 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1795 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1796 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1797 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1798 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1799 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1800 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1804 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1805 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1806 of Mailing List Archives.
1808 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1810 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1811 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1814 Show view archiving key binding changes
1816 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1817 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1818 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1819 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1820 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1823 Support text/calendar MIME type
1825 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1828 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1830 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1831 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1832 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1833 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1835 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1837 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1838 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1839 messages blue by default in the search view.
1843 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1844 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1851 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1854 Python bindings changes
1855 -----------------------
1857 Python 3.2 compatibility
1859 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1861 Added missing unicode conversions
1863 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1864 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1865 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1870 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1872 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1873 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1874 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1875 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1876 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1878 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1879 ===========================
1884 Fix error handling in python bindings
1886 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1887 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1888 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1889 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1891 Quote MML tags in replies
1893 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1894 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1895 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1896 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1897 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1898 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1899 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1900 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1902 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1903 =========================
1905 Command-Line Interface
1906 ----------------------
1910 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1911 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1912 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1913 importing new messages into the database.
1915 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1917 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1918 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1919 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1924 Automatic tag query optimization
1926 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1927 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1928 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1930 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1932 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1933 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1934 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1939 Reduction of memory leaks
1941 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1942 and fixed in this release.
1949 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1950 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1951 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1954 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1956 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1957 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1958 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1961 Improvements in saved search management
1963 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1964 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1965 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1967 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1969 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1970 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1971 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1973 New face for crypto parts headers
1975 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1976 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1977 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1980 Use space as default thousands separator
1982 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1983 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1984 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1986 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1987 buttonized id: links
1989 New function notmuch-show-advance
1991 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1992 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1993 be bound to SPC with:
1995 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1997 Various performance improvements
2002 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2003 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2006 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2007 ===========================
2012 Fix crash in python bindings
2014 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2015 for some, but not all users.
2017 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2018 ===========================
2023 Fix `--help` argument
2025 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2026 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2027 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2029 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2030 =========================
2032 New build and testing features
2033 ------------------------------
2035 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2036 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2037 prerequisites is improved.
2039 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2041 New command-line features
2042 -------------------------
2044 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2046 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2047 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2050 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2052 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2053 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2054 favour of using stdout.
2056 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2058 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2059 limit the number of results shown.
2061 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2063 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2064 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2067 New emacs UI features
2068 ---------------------
2070 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2072 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2073 starting with "tag:".
2075 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2077 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2078 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2080 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2082 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2084 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2086 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2087 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2092 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2094 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2096 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2097 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2098 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2099 requires a database rebuild:
2101 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2102 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2104 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2106 New collection of add-on tools
2107 ------------------------------
2109 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2110 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2111 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2114 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2116 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2117 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2118 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2120 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2121 ========================
2123 New, general features
2124 ---------------------
2126 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2128 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2129 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2130 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2131 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2132 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2139 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2140 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2142 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2146 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2147 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2148 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2151 Python bindings changes
2152 -----------------------
2154 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2156 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2157 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2158 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2159 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2160 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2161 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2163 Ruby bindings changes
2164 ---------------------
2166 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2167 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2168 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2169 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2174 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2176 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2177 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2179 Reply formatting cleanup
2180 ------------------------
2182 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2183 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2185 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2186 ========================
2188 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2190 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2191 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2192 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2193 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2196 Improved Build system portability
2198 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2199 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2200 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2202 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2204 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2206 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2208 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2209 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2210 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2212 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2213 ========================
2215 Vim interface improvements
2216 --------------------------
2218 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2220 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2221 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2222 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2223 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2224 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2226 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2228 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2229 * fix compose temp file name
2231 Python Bindings changes
2232 -----------------------
2234 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2236 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2237 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2239 Build-System improvements
2240 -------------------------
2242 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2244 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2247 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2248 ==========================
2253 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2255 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2256 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2258 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2259 =======================
2261 New, general features
2262 ---------------------
2264 Folder-based searching
2266 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2267 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2268 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2272 For example, one might use things such as:
2278 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2279 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2281 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2282 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2283 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2284 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2286 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2287 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2288 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2291 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2292 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2294 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2296 Support for PGP/MIME
2298 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2299 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2300 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2302 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2304 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2305 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2307 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2308 notmuch will receive these tags.
2310 New command-line features
2311 -------------------------
2313 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2315 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2316 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2318 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2320 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2321 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2322 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2324 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2326 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2327 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2328 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2329 which parts a signature part applies).
2331 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2333 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2334 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2335 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2336 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2337 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2340 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2342 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2343 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2344 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2345 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2346 by translating it internally to the new call.
2348 Performance improvements
2349 ------------------------
2351 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2353 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2354 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2355 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2357 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2358 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2360 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2362 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2363 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2364 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2366 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2367 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2368 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2369 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2371 Faster initial indexing
2373 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2374 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2375 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2377 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2379 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2380 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2381 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2382 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2384 New emacs-interface features
2385 ----------------------------
2387 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2389 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2390 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2391 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2392 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2393 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2394 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2396 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2398 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2399 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2400 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2401 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2403 User-selectable From address
2405 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2406 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2407 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2408 will prompt for the from address to use.
2410 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2411 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2412 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2414 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2415 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2416 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2419 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2421 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2422 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2424 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2426 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2428 ----- Original Message -----
2430 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2431 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2432 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2433 citations work much like conventional citations.
2435 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2437 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2438 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2439 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2440 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2441 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2443 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2444 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2446 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2448 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2449 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2450 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2452 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2454 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2455 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2456 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2457 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2458 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2460 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2462 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2465 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2467 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2469 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2471 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2474 Vim interface improvements
2475 --------------------------
2477 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2479 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2480 * Implementing archive in show view
2481 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2482 * Add delete commands
2485 Bindings improvements
2486 ---------------------
2488 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2490 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2491 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2493 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2495 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2499 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2500 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2501 `list(Messages)` works now
2502 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2504 These allow, for example:
2506 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2508 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2510 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2516 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2518 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2521 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2523 New build-system features
2524 -------------------------
2526 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2528 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2529 the configure script from some other directory:
2536 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2538 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2539 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2540 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2541 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2542 manual invocation of configure.
2544 New test-suite feature
2545 ----------------------
2547 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2549 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2550 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2551 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2552 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2553 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2556 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2558 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2559 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2560 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2561 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2562 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2563 are updated to take advantage of this.
2565 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2567 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2568 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2569 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2570 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2576 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2578 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2579 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2580 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2582 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2584 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2586 to:user@elsewhere.com
2588 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2590 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2592 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2594 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2595 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2596 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2599 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2600 from the Received headers in some cases
2602 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2603 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2605 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2607 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2609 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2611 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2612 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2613 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2615 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2616 -------------------------
2618 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2620 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2621 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2622 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2624 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2626 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2627 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2628 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2631 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2633 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2634 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2635 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2636 fixed to avoid this bug.
2638 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2640 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2641 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2643 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2644 ========================
2646 New, general features
2647 ---------------------
2649 Maildir-flag synchronization
2651 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2652 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2661 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2663 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2664 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2665 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2666 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2668 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2669 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2670 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2671 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2674 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2676 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2677 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2678 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2680 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2681 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2683 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2684 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2686 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2687 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2688 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2690 New library features
2691 --------------------
2693 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2695 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2696 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2697 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2698 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2700 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2701 message with the new function:
2703 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2705 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2706 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2707 over all available filenames for a given message.
2709 New command-line features
2710 -------------------------
2712 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2714 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2715 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2716 access to the mail store itself.
2718 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2719 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2720 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2721 name of a script containing:
2723 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2725 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2726 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2732 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2734 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2736 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2738 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2739 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2740 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2741 now produces nothing).
2743 Emacs interface improvements
2744 ----------------------------
2746 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2748 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2750 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2752 Display current thread subject in a header line
2754 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2756 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2758 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2759 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2760 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2761 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2762 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2763 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2764 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2766 Vim interface improvements
2767 --------------------------
2769 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2771 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2772 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2778 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2780 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2781 ========================
2783 New command-line features
2784 -------------------------
2786 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2788 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2789 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2790 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2792 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2793 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2794 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2795 scripts. For example:
2797 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2798 <operations-on> "$file"
2801 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2803 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2804 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2805 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2806 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2807 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2808 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2810 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2812 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2813 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2814 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2815 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2817 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2819 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2820 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2821 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2822 default rather than Bcc.
2824 New library features
2825 --------------------
2827 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2829 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2830 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2835 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2837 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2838 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2839 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2840 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2841 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2842 notmuch customize interface.
2844 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2846 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2847 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2848 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2849 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2851 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2853 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2854 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2855 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2856 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2858 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2860 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2861 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2862 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2863 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2864 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2865 notmuch customize interface.
2867 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2869 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2870 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2871 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2872 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2873 notmuch customize interface.
2875 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2877 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2878 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2879 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2880 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2883 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2885 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2886 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2887 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2890 New build-system features
2891 -------------------------
2893 Various portability fixes have been applied
2895 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2896 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2897 more portable than ever before.
2899 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2901 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2902 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2903 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2905 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2906 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2907 automatically run ldconfig.
2909 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2910 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2911 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2913 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2914 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2915 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2916 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2918 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2920 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2921 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2922 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2923 used in the resulting Makefile.
2925 New test-suite features
2926 -----------------------
2928 New modularization of test suite
2930 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2931 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2932 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2933 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2934 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2935 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2936 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2937 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2939 New testing of emacs interface
2941 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2942 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2943 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2944 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2945 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2946 database via the FCC setting.
2951 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2953 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2954 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2955 persistent error of the form:
2957 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2959 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2960 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2962 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2964 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2965 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2966 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2968 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2970 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2971 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2972 parsing the notmuch results).
2974 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2976 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2979 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2980 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2981 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2986 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2988 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2989 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2990 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2991 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2992 the emacs interface.
2994 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2996 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2997 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2998 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3000 Python-binding fixes
3001 --------------------
3003 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3005 Debian-specific fixes
3006 ---------------------
3008 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3010 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3011 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3012 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3015 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3016 ==========================
3021 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3023 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3024 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3025 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3026 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3028 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3030 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3031 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3032 want notmuch to crash.
3037 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3039 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3040 directory does not exist
3045 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3047 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3048 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3050 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3051 ========================
3053 New command-line features
3054 -------------------------
3056 User-configurable tags for new messages
3058 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3059 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3060 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3061 to specify this value.
3063 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3065 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3066 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3067 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3069 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3071 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3072 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3074 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3076 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3077 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3078 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3079 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3080 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3083 Indication of author names that match a search
3085 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3086 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3087 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3088 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3089 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3090 messages in the thread are listed first.
3092 New: Python bindings
3093 --------------------
3095 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3096 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3097 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3098 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3100 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3101 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3102 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3105 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3106 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3107 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3109 Emacs interface improvements
3110 ----------------------------
3112 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3114 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3115 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3116 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3117 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3118 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3119 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3120 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3121 but without any of the disadvantages).
3123 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3124 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3125 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3128 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3129 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3130 instead running something like:
3132 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3134 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3135 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3136 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3139 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3141 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3142 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3143 tweaked by the user.
3145 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3146 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3147 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3150 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3151 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3152 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3155 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3157 This support currently relies on an external program,
3158 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3159 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3160 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3161 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3162 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3165 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3166 notmuch) is available via:
3168 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3170 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3171 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3172 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3174 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3176 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3177 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3178 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3179 making this automatic in a future release.
3181 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3183 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3184 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3185 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3186 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3187 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3188 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3191 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3193 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3194 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3195 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3197 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3199 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3200 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3201 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3203 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3204 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3205 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3206 other representation.
3208 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3209 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3212 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3214 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3215 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3216 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3218 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3219 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3220 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3222 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3224 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3225 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3226 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3227 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3228 to display the search result.
3230 More flexible handling of header visibility
3232 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3233 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3234 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3235 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3236 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3237 with the 'h' keybinding.
3239 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3240 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3241 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3243 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3245 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3247 Customizable formatting of search results
3249 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3250 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3251 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3253 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3255 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3257 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3262 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3264 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3265 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3266 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3267 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3273 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3275 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3276 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3278 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3280 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3281 accept are now all accepted.
3286 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3288 Better display of output from failed tests
3290 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3291 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3293 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3294 ========================
3296 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3297 detailed release notes this time!
3299 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3300 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3302 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3303 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3304 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3305 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3312 Better guessing of From: header
3314 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3315 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3316 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3317 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3318 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3321 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3323 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3324 guaranteed to match all messages.
3326 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3328 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3329 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3330 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3331 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3332 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3335 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3338 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3339 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3340 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3341 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3346 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3348 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3349 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3350 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3351 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3353 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3355 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3357 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3358 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3359 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3361 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3363 Previously, the user might see:
3365 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3369 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3371 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3372 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3373 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3374 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3376 Emacs client features
3377 ---------------------
3379 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3381 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3382 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3383 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3384 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3385 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3387 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3390 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3391 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3392 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3393 search with the '*' binding.
3395 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3397 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3398 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3401 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3403 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3404 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3405 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3407 Build-system features
3408 ---------------------
3410 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3412 Add support to configure for many standard options
3414 We include actual support for:
3416 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3418 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3420 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3421 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3423 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3424 separate "make install-emacs"
3426 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3428 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3429 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3430 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3432 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3435 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3436 ========================
3438 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3440 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3441 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3443 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3444 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3445 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3446 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3447 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3448 tags from messages in a thread.
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