1 Notmuch 0.24 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
9 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
12 Command Line Interface
13 ----------------------
15 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
17 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
18 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
19 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
24 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
26 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
27 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
28 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
29 or tree view to resume.
31 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
32 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
33 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
36 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
37 they were when you postponed in the final message.
41 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
42 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
43 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
44 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
45 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
49 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
50 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
51 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
52 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
53 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
54 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
58 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
59 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
61 Stop display of application/* parts
63 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
64 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
65 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
66 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
67 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
68 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
69 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
70 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
73 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
75 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
76 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
77 only tagged the current thread.)
79 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
81 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
82 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
83 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
88 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
90 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
93 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
95 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
98 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
99 ===========================
104 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
106 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
107 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
108 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
111 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
112 ===========================
114 Command Line Interface
115 ----------------------
117 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
122 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
124 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
125 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
126 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
128 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
129 ===========================
134 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
135 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
137 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
138 ===========================
140 Command Line Interface
141 ----------------------
143 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
145 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
146 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
147 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
152 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
154 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
155 ===========================
157 Command Line Interface
158 ----------------------
160 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
165 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
167 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
168 ===========================
173 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
175 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
176 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
177 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
179 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
181 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
183 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
184 ===========================
189 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
191 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
196 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
198 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
199 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
200 the original colours.
202 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
203 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
205 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
207 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
208 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
209 bug, and hence the test.
211 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
212 =========================
214 General (Xapian 1.4+)
215 ---------------------
217 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
219 Support for single argument date: queries
221 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
223 Support for blocking opens
225 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
226 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
228 Support for named queries
230 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
231 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
232 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
239 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
240 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
241 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
242 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
244 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
246 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
251 Support for compile time options
253 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
254 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
257 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
259 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
260 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
261 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
262 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
263 scripts to ignore it.
268 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
270 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
271 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
272 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
274 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
275 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
276 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
277 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
278 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
279 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
280 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
282 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
283 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
286 Make internal address completion customizable
288 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
289 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
290 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
291 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
294 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
296 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
297 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
298 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
299 completion for the current buffer.
301 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
302 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
303 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
307 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
308 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
309 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
310 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
311 will be added instead.
313 Face customization is easier
315 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
316 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
317 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
318 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
320 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
325 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
330 Go bindings moved to contrib
332 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
334 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
336 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
337 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
339 The same issue occured with sort modes.
341 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
342 ===========================
349 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
350 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
352 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
354 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
356 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
357 ===========================
362 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
364 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
369 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
374 Use `env` to locate perl.
379 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
381 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
383 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
385 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
387 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
388 =========================
395 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
396 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
398 Limited support for S/MIME messages
400 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
401 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
402 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
407 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
408 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
409 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
411 Command Line Interface
412 ----------------------
414 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
416 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
421 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
426 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
428 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
429 parts are now included in replies.
431 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
432 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
433 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
434 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
436 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
438 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
440 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
442 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
443 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
444 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
445 forwards only the current message.
447 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
449 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
450 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
451 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
452 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
453 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
454 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
455 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
456 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
459 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
460 longer generate empty buffers
462 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
463 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
464 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
465 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
466 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
468 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
470 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
473 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
475 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
478 Address completion improvements
480 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
481 you previously configured one, customize the variable
482 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
483 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
484 interactive address completion.
486 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
488 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
489 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
490 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
495 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
496 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
497 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
503 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
504 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
505 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
506 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
507 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
508 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
510 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
511 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
512 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
513 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
514 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
515 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
517 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
518 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
520 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
521 =========================
526 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
529 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
531 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
532 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
533 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
535 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
536 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
538 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
539 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
540 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
542 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
544 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
545 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
546 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
547 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
548 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
549 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
554 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
555 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
558 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
561 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
563 Command Line Interface
564 ----------------------
566 Database revision tracking
568 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
569 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
570 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
571 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
573 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
575 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
576 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
577 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
578 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
579 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
580 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
581 manual page for further information.
586 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
588 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
589 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
591 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
593 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
594 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
595 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
597 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
599 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
601 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
602 customization as well.
604 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
606 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
608 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
610 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
612 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
613 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
614 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
615 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
617 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
619 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
620 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
621 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
622 this variable to 10000.
627 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
628 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
630 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
632 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
633 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
634 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
635 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
636 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
637 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
638 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
639 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
640 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
643 Database revision tracking
645 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
646 query parser and the new function
647 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
649 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
653 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
654 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
655 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
656 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
661 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
663 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
664 ===========================
669 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
671 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
672 ===========================
677 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
679 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
680 =========================
682 Command-Line Interface
683 ----------------------
685 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
687 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
688 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
689 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
691 Path to gpg is now configurable
693 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
694 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
699 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
701 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
706 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
711 Support messages without Message-IDs.
716 Undeprecate single message mboxes
718 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
719 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
721 New error logging facility
723 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
724 output formerly printed to stderr.
726 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
728 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
730 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
732 Fix for rounding of seconds
737 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
739 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
740 docmumentation has been removed.
742 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
744 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
745 some material from the relicensed wiki.
750 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
751 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
752 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
757 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
758 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
759 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
760 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
761 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
762 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
765 git checkout config origin/config
767 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
769 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
770 =========================
775 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
776 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
777 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
778 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
779 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
780 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
781 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
783 Command-Line Interface
784 ----------------------
786 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
788 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
789 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
790 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
791 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
792 script callers should still check the return value.
794 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
796 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
797 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
798 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
799 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
800 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
801 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
802 and returning success even if indexing fails).
804 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
806 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
807 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
808 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
810 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
812 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
813 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
814 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
815 currently unmaintained.
817 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
819 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
820 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
821 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
822 have at least `N` files associated with them.
824 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
826 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
827 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
828 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
829 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
830 count of duplicate addresses.
835 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
837 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
838 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
839 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
842 Improved handling of the unread tag
844 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
845 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
846 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
847 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
848 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
849 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
850 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
852 Expanded default saved search settings
854 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
855 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
857 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
859 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
860 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
861 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
863 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
865 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
866 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
867 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
868 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
869 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
870 the variable for details.
875 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
877 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
878 Representing these independently of the database version number will
879 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
880 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
882 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
884 Previously, library users were required to call
885 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
886 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
887 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
888 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
889 too out of date for that API.
891 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
893 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
894 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
895 atomic section will be aborted.
897 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
898 `notmuch_database_destroy`
900 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
902 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
903 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
904 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
905 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
906 messages into the same thread.
911 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
912 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
913 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
914 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
915 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
916 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
921 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
922 from the config file. Use something like:
926 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
927 "footer": "</body></html>",
936 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
941 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
942 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
943 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
945 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
946 ===========================
951 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
953 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
955 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
957 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
958 structure for signatures changed slightly.
960 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
962 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
965 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
966 ===========================
968 This is a bug fix and portability release.
973 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
975 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
977 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
979 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
981 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
987 Use --quick when starting emacs
989 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
991 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
993 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
995 Command-Line Interface
996 ----------------------
998 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
999 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1004 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1006 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1007 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1009 Fix for phrase indexing
1011 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1012 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1013 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1018 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1020 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1021 unintentionally removed.
1023 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1024 =========================
1029 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1030 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1031 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1032 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1033 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1034 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1035 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1036 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1037 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1043 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1045 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1046 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1047 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1048 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1049 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1050 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1051 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1052 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1054 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1056 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1057 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1058 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1059 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1062 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1064 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1065 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1066 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1067 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1068 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1069 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1070 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1075 Notmuch database upgrade
1077 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1078 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1079 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1080 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1081 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1082 released version of Notmuch before now.
1084 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1086 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1087 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1088 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1089 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1091 Message header parsing changes
1093 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1094 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1095 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1096 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1097 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1098 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1100 Command-Line Interface
1101 ----------------------
1103 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1105 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1107 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1109 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1111 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1113 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1114 user does not want it.
1116 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1118 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1119 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1120 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1121 support formatted output.
1123 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1125 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1126 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1127 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1135 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1136 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1137 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1138 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1139 `~/.emacs` with these.
1141 Changed format for saved searches
1143 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1144 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1145 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1146 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1149 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1150 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1151 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1152 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1154 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1155 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1156 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1158 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1159 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1160 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1161 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1162 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1164 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1166 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1167 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1168 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1170 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1172 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1173 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1174 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1175 message had been unread).
1177 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1178 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1179 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1180 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1182 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1183 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1184 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1186 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1187 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1188 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1189 to tags already present.
1193 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1194 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1195 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1196 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1197 these differ from each other.
1198 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1200 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1202 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1203 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1204 for these Emacs versions.
1206 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1208 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1209 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1211 Bug fixes for sender identities
1213 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1214 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1215 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1217 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1219 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1220 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1221 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1222 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1224 Reply pushes mark before signature
1226 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1227 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1228 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1230 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1232 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1233 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1239 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1240 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1242 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1243 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1244 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1245 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1247 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1248 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1249 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1250 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1251 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1253 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1255 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1256 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1258 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1259 =========================
1261 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1262 ---------------------------------------
1264 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1265 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1266 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1267 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1268 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1269 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1270 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1274 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1275 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1277 Command-Line Interface
1278 ----------------------
1280 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1282 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1283 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1284 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1285 print for each message.
1287 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1288 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1289 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1290 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1292 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1294 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1295 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1296 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1298 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1300 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1301 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1302 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1303 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1305 `notmuch compact` command
1307 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1308 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1309 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1310 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1311 move the compacted database into place.
1316 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1318 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1319 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1320 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1321 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1322 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1323 and multiple threads.
1325 Using `notmuch-tree`
1327 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1329 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1330 search, show and tree mode itself)
1332 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1335 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1336 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1338 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1340 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1341 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1342 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1343 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1344 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1345 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1346 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1348 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1350 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1351 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1352 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1353 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1354 thread when the search was performed.
1356 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1358 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1359 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1360 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1362 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1364 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1365 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1368 Built-in help improvements
1370 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1371 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1372 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1374 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1376 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1377 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1378 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1380 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1382 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1383 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1385 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1387 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1388 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1389 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1390 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1392 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1394 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1395 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1396 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1397 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1399 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1401 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1402 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1403 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1405 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1407 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1408 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1409 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1411 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1413 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1414 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1415 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1416 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1417 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1419 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1421 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1422 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1423 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1424 the body part of the message.
1429 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1430 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1431 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1433 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1434 =========================
1436 Command-Line Interface
1437 ----------------------
1439 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1441 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1442 folder and notmuch index.
1444 `notmuch count --batch` option
1446 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1447 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1449 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1451 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1452 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1453 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1456 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1458 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1459 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1460 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1461 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1462 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1465 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1467 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1468 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1470 Top level option to specify configuration file
1472 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1473 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1475 Bash command-line completion
1477 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1478 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1479 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1480 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1481 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1482 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1483 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1484 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1485 bash-completion package.
1487 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1492 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1494 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1495 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1496 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1497 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1498 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1499 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1500 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1501 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1503 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1505 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1506 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1507 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1509 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1511 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1512 previous thread in the search results.
1514 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1516 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1517 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1519 Faster search and show
1521 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1522 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1523 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1524 threads should show faster.
1528 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1529 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1530 in question was now removed from this release.
1535 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1536 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1541 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1543 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1544 ===========================
1549 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1551 Internal test framework changes
1552 -------------------------------
1554 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1555 being unimplemented.
1557 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1558 ===========================
1560 Internal test framework changes
1561 -------------------------------
1563 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1564 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1566 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1567 =========================
1572 Date range search support
1574 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1575 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1576 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1577 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1578 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1581 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1583 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1584 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1585 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1586 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1587 but may be removed in a future release.
1589 Command-Line Interface
1590 ----------------------
1592 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1594 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1595 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1597 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1599 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1600 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1601 officially deprecated.
1603 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1605 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1606 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1607 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1609 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1611 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1612 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1615 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1616 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1617 dump/restore format.
1619 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1621 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1622 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1623 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1625 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1627 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1628 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1629 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1631 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1633 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1634 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1635 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1636 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1641 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1643 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1644 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1645 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1646 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1648 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1650 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1651 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1652 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1653 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1654 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1655 the behavior of this, see
1656 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1657 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1659 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1660 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1661 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1663 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1665 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1666 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1669 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1671 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1672 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1673 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1674 simply displayed in place of the message.
1676 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1678 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1679 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1681 Improved text/calendar content handling
1683 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1684 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1685 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1686 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1688 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1690 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1691 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1692 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1693 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1695 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1697 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1698 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1699 for HTML email containing images.
1701 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1703 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1705 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1707 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1710 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1712 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1713 the point where it was.
1715 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1717 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1718 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1719 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1720 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1721 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1723 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1725 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1726 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1727 thread instead of the message id.
1729 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1730 -----------------------------
1732 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1733 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1734 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1735 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1736 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1737 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1738 further details and installation.
1743 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1745 Internal test framework changes
1746 -------------------------------
1748 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1750 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1751 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1752 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1753 can result in buggy behavior.
1755 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1756 =========================
1761 Maildir tag synchronization
1763 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1764 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1765 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1766 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1767 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1768 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1771 Command-Line Interface
1772 ----------------------
1774 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1775 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1776 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1777 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1778 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1784 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1786 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1788 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1789 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1790 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1792 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1794 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1795 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1796 span multiple lines.
1798 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1800 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1801 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1802 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1803 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1804 inside the result or message.
1806 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1808 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1809 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1811 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1812 user-specified formatting
1814 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1815 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1816 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1817 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1818 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1820 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1821 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1823 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1824 ===========================
1829 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1830 compilation error for this contrib package.
1832 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1833 ===========================
1838 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1840 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1841 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1842 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1843 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1845 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1846 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1849 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1850 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1851 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1852 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1855 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1857 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1860 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1861 =========================
1863 Command-Line Interface
1864 ----------------------
1868 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1869 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1870 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1871 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1873 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1874 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1875 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1876 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1880 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1881 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1883 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1884 tag in your query, for example:
1886 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1888 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1889 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1891 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1892 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1894 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1896 Raw show format changes
1898 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1899 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1900 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1901 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1902 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1903 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1904 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1905 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1907 Listing configuration items
1909 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1915 Changes to tagging interface
1917 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1918 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1919 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1920 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1921 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1922 for more information.
1924 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1925 may need to update in custom configurations.
1927 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1929 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1930 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1931 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1932 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1935 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1936 -----------------------------
1938 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1939 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1940 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1941 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1942 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1943 contrib/ from now on.
1948 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1949 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1951 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1952 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1954 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1955 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1956 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1958 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1959 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1961 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1962 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1963 returning the new database object or directory object.
1970 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1971 compatible with go 1.
1973 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1974 =========================
1976 Command-Line Interface
1977 ----------------------
1981 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1982 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1983 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1984 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1986 Mail store folder/file ignore
1988 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1989 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1990 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1992 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1993 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1995 Unified help and manual pages
1997 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1998 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2001 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2003 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2004 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2012 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2013 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2014 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2015 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2017 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2019 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2020 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2022 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2025 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2026 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2027 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2029 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2031 should be changed to:
2033 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2035 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2037 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2038 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2040 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2042 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2043 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2044 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2045 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2046 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2047 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2051 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2052 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2053 of Mailing List Archives.
2055 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2057 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2058 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2061 Show view archiving key binding changes
2063 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2064 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2065 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2066 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2067 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2070 Support text/calendar MIME type
2072 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2075 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2077 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2078 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2079 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2080 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2082 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2084 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2085 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2086 messages blue by default in the search view.
2090 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2091 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2098 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2101 Python bindings changes
2102 -----------------------
2104 Python 3.2 compatibility
2106 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2108 Added missing unicode conversions
2110 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2111 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2112 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2117 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2119 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2120 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2121 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2122 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2123 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2125 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2126 ===========================
2131 Fix error handling in python bindings
2133 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2134 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2135 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2136 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2138 Quote MML tags in replies
2140 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2141 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2142 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2143 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2144 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2145 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2146 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2147 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2149 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2150 =========================
2152 Command-Line Interface
2153 ----------------------
2157 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2158 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2159 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2160 importing new messages into the database.
2162 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2164 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2165 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2166 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2171 Automatic tag query optimization
2173 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2174 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2175 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2177 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2179 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2180 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2181 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2186 Reduction of memory leaks
2188 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2189 and fixed in this release.
2196 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2197 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2198 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2201 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2203 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2204 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2205 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2208 Improvements in saved search management
2210 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2211 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2212 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2214 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2216 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2217 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2218 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2220 New face for crypto parts headers
2222 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2223 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2224 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2227 Use space as default thousands separator
2229 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2230 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2231 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2233 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2234 buttonized id: links
2236 New function notmuch-show-advance
2238 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2239 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2240 be bound to SPC with:
2242 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2244 Various performance improvements
2249 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2250 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2253 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2254 ===========================
2259 Fix crash in python bindings
2261 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2262 for some, but not all users.
2264 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2265 ===========================
2270 Fix `--help` argument
2272 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2273 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2274 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2276 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2277 =========================
2279 New build and testing features
2280 ------------------------------
2282 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2283 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2284 prerequisites is improved.
2286 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2288 New command-line features
2289 -------------------------
2291 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2293 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2294 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2297 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2299 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2300 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2301 favour of using stdout.
2303 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2305 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2306 limit the number of results shown.
2308 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2310 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2311 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2314 New emacs UI features
2315 ---------------------
2317 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2319 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2320 starting with "tag:".
2322 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2324 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2325 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2327 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2329 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2331 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2333 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2334 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2339 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2341 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2343 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2344 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2345 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2346 requires a database rebuild:
2348 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2349 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2351 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2353 New collection of add-on tools
2354 ------------------------------
2356 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2357 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2358 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2361 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2363 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2364 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2365 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2367 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2368 ========================
2370 New, general features
2371 ---------------------
2373 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2375 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2376 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2377 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2378 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2379 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2386 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2387 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2389 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2393 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2394 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2395 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2398 Python bindings changes
2399 -----------------------
2401 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2403 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2404 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2405 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2406 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2407 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2408 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2410 Ruby bindings changes
2411 ---------------------
2413 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2414 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2415 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2416 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2421 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2423 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2424 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2426 Reply formatting cleanup
2427 ------------------------
2429 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2430 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2432 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2433 ========================
2435 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2437 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2438 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2439 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2440 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2443 Improved Build system portability
2445 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2446 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2447 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2449 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2451 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2453 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2455 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2456 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2457 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2459 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2460 ========================
2462 Vim interface improvements
2463 --------------------------
2465 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2467 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2468 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2469 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2470 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2471 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2473 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2475 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2476 * fix compose temp file name
2478 Python Bindings changes
2479 -----------------------
2481 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2483 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2484 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2486 Build-System improvements
2487 -------------------------
2489 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2491 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2494 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2495 ==========================
2500 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2502 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2503 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2505 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2506 =======================
2508 New, general features
2509 ---------------------
2511 Folder-based searching
2513 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2514 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2515 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2519 For example, one might use things such as:
2525 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2526 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2528 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2529 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2530 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2531 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2533 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2534 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2535 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2538 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2539 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2541 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2543 Support for PGP/MIME
2545 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2546 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2547 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2549 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2551 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2552 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2554 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2555 notmuch will receive these tags.
2557 New command-line features
2558 -------------------------
2560 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2562 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2563 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2565 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2567 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2568 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2569 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2571 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2573 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2574 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2575 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2576 which parts a signature part applies).
2578 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2580 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2581 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2582 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2583 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2584 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2587 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2589 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2590 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2591 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2592 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2593 by translating it internally to the new call.
2595 Performance improvements
2596 ------------------------
2598 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2600 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2601 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2602 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2604 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2605 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2607 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2609 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2610 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2611 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2613 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2614 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2615 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2616 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2618 Faster initial indexing
2620 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2621 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2622 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2624 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2626 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2627 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2628 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2629 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2631 New emacs-interface features
2632 ----------------------------
2634 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2636 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2637 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2638 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2639 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2640 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2641 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2643 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2645 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2646 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2647 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2648 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2650 User-selectable From address
2652 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2653 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2654 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2655 will prompt for the from address to use.
2657 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2658 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2659 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2661 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2662 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2663 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2666 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2668 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2669 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2671 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2673 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2675 ----- Original Message -----
2677 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2678 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2679 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2680 citations work much like conventional citations.
2682 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2684 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2685 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2686 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2687 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2688 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2690 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2691 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2693 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2695 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2696 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2697 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2699 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2701 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2702 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2703 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2704 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2705 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2707 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2709 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2712 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2714 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2716 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2718 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2721 Vim interface improvements
2722 --------------------------
2724 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2726 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2727 * Implementing archive in show view
2728 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2729 * Add delete commands
2732 Bindings improvements
2733 ---------------------
2735 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2737 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2738 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2740 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2742 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2746 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2747 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2748 `list(Messages)` works now
2749 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2751 These allow, for example:
2753 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2755 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2757 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2763 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2765 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2768 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2770 New build-system features
2771 -------------------------
2773 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2775 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2776 the configure script from some other directory:
2783 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2785 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2786 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2787 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2788 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2789 manual invocation of configure.
2791 New test-suite feature
2792 ----------------------
2794 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2796 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2797 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2798 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2799 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2800 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2803 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2805 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2806 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2807 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2808 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2809 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2810 are updated to take advantage of this.
2812 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2814 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2815 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2816 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2817 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2823 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2825 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2826 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2827 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2829 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2831 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2833 to:user@elsewhere.com
2835 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2837 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2839 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2841 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2842 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2843 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2846 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2847 from the Received headers in some cases
2849 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2850 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2852 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2854 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2856 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2858 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2859 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2860 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2862 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2863 -------------------------
2865 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2867 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2868 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2869 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2871 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2873 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2874 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2875 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2878 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2880 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2881 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2882 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2883 fixed to avoid this bug.
2885 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2887 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2888 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2890 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2891 ========================
2893 New, general features
2894 ---------------------
2896 Maildir-flag synchronization
2898 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2899 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2908 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2910 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2911 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2912 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2913 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2915 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2916 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2917 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2918 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2921 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2923 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2924 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2925 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2927 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2928 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2930 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2931 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2933 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2934 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2935 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2937 New library features
2938 --------------------
2940 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2942 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2943 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2944 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2945 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2947 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2948 message with the new function:
2950 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2952 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2953 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2954 over all available filenames for a given message.
2956 New command-line features
2957 -------------------------
2959 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2961 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2962 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2963 access to the mail store itself.
2965 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2966 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2967 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2968 name of a script containing:
2970 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2972 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2973 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2979 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2981 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2983 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2985 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2986 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2987 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2988 now produces nothing).
2990 Emacs interface improvements
2991 ----------------------------
2993 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2995 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2997 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2999 Display current thread subject in a header line
3001 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3003 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3005 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3006 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3007 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3008 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3009 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3010 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3011 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3013 Vim interface improvements
3014 --------------------------
3016 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3018 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3019 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3025 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3027 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3028 ========================
3030 New command-line features
3031 -------------------------
3033 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3035 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3036 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3037 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3039 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3040 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3041 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3042 scripts. For example:
3044 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3045 <operations-on> "$file"
3048 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3050 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3051 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3052 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3053 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3054 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3055 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3057 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3059 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3060 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3061 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3062 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3064 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3066 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3067 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3068 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3069 default rather than Bcc.
3071 New library features
3072 --------------------
3074 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3076 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3077 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3082 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3084 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3085 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3086 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3087 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3088 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3089 notmuch customize interface.
3091 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3093 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3094 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3095 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3096 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3098 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3100 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3101 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3102 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3103 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3105 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3107 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3108 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3109 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3110 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3111 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3112 notmuch customize interface.
3114 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3116 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3117 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3118 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3119 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3120 notmuch customize interface.
3122 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3124 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3125 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3126 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3127 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3130 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3132 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3133 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3134 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3137 New build-system features
3138 -------------------------
3140 Various portability fixes have been applied
3142 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3143 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3144 more portable than ever before.
3146 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3148 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3149 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3150 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3152 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3153 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3154 automatically run ldconfig.
3156 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3157 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3158 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3160 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3161 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3162 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3163 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3165 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3167 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3168 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3169 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3170 used in the resulting Makefile.
3172 New test-suite features
3173 -----------------------
3175 New modularization of test suite
3177 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3178 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3179 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3180 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3181 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3182 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3183 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3184 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3186 New testing of emacs interface
3188 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3189 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3190 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3191 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3192 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3193 database via the FCC setting.
3198 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3200 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3201 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3202 persistent error of the form:
3204 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3206 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3207 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3209 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3211 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3212 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3213 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3215 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3217 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3218 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3219 parsing the notmuch results).
3221 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3223 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3226 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3227 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3228 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3233 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3235 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3236 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3237 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3238 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3239 the emacs interface.
3241 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3243 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3244 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3245 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3247 Python-binding fixes
3248 --------------------
3250 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3252 Debian-specific fixes
3253 ---------------------
3255 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3257 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3258 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3259 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3262 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3263 ==========================
3268 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3270 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3271 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3272 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3273 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3275 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3277 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3278 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3279 want notmuch to crash.
3284 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3286 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3287 directory does not exist
3292 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3294 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3295 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3297 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3298 ========================
3300 New command-line features
3301 -------------------------
3303 User-configurable tags for new messages
3305 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3306 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3307 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3308 to specify this value.
3310 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3312 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3313 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3314 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3316 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3318 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3319 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3321 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3323 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3324 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3325 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3326 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3327 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3330 Indication of author names that match a search
3332 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3333 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3334 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3335 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3336 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3337 messages in the thread are listed first.
3339 New: Python bindings
3340 --------------------
3342 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3343 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3344 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3345 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3347 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3348 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3349 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3352 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3353 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3354 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3356 Emacs interface improvements
3357 ----------------------------
3359 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3361 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3362 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3363 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3364 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3365 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3366 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3367 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3368 but without any of the disadvantages).
3370 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3371 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3372 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3375 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3376 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3377 instead running something like:
3379 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3381 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3382 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3383 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3386 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3388 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3389 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3390 tweaked by the user.
3392 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3393 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3394 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3397 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3398 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3399 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3402 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3404 This support currently relies on an external program,
3405 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3406 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3407 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3408 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3409 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3412 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3413 notmuch) is available via:
3415 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3417 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3418 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3419 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3421 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3423 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3424 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3425 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3426 making this automatic in a future release.
3428 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3430 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3431 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3432 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3433 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3434 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3435 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3438 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3440 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3441 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3442 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3444 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3446 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3447 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3448 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3450 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3451 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3452 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3453 other representation.
3455 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3456 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3459 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3461 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3462 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3463 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3465 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3466 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3467 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3469 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3471 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3472 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3473 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3474 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3475 to display the search result.
3477 More flexible handling of header visibility
3479 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3480 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3481 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3482 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3483 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3484 with the 'h' keybinding.
3486 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3487 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3488 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3490 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3492 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3494 Customizable formatting of search results
3496 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3497 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3498 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3500 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3502 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3504 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3509 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3511 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3512 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3513 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3514 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3520 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3522 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3523 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3525 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3527 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3528 accept are now all accepted.
3533 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3535 Better display of output from failed tests
3537 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3538 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3540 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3541 ========================
3543 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3544 detailed release notes this time!
3546 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3547 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3549 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3550 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3551 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3552 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3559 Better guessing of From: header
3561 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3562 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3563 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3564 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3565 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3568 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3570 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3571 guaranteed to match all messages.
3573 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3575 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3576 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3577 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3578 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3579 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3582 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3585 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3586 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3587 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3588 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3593 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3595 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3596 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3597 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3598 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3600 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3602 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3604 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3605 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3606 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3608 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3610 Previously, the user might see:
3612 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3616 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3618 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3619 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3620 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3621 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3623 Emacs client features
3624 ---------------------
3626 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3628 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3629 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3630 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3631 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3632 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3634 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3637 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3638 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3639 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3640 search with the '*' binding.
3642 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3644 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3645 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3648 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3650 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3651 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3652 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3654 Build-system features
3655 ---------------------
3657 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3659 Add support to configure for many standard options
3661 We include actual support for:
3663 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3665 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3667 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3668 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3670 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3671 separate "make install-emacs"
3673 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3675 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3676 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3677 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3679 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3682 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3683 ========================
3685 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3687 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3688 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3690 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3691 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3692 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3693 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3694 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3695 tags from messages in a thread.
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