1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false with --format=text
9 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
10 =========================
17 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
18 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
19 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
20 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
21 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
24 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
26 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
27 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
28 correct encoding for such messages.
30 Command Line Interface
31 ----------------------
33 Support relative database paths
35 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
36 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
37 to $HOME of the invoking user.
42 Improve stderr handling
44 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
47 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
49 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
54 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
55 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
61 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
62 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
68 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
69 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
72 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
73 =========================
78 Add support for thread:{} queries
80 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
81 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
82 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
84 Command Line Interface
85 ----------------------
87 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
89 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
91 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
93 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
94 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
95 does not have to be available during message receipt.
100 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
106 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
107 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
109 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
110 ===========================
115 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
117 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
118 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
119 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
121 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
123 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
124 related abort in `notmuch show`.
126 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
127 ===========================
132 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
133 better late than never.
136 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
137 =========================
139 Command Line Interface
140 ----------------------
142 Support for re-indexing existing messages
144 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
145 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
146 change the way specific messages are indexed.
148 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
149 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
150 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
152 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
154 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
156 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
158 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
159 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
160 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
161 the setting of `new.tags`.
163 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
165 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
167 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
169 This inserts into the top level folder.
171 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
173 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
175 New option --output=address for notmuch address
177 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
179 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
181 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
182 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
183 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
185 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
190 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
192 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
193 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
194 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
195 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
196 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
197 config set index.decrypt true".
199 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
200 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
201 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
202 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
203 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
204 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
205 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
206 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
208 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
209 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
210 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
211 this feature without considering the security of your index.
216 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
218 Use make-process when available
220 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
221 notmuch command without using temporary files.
226 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
228 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
229 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
230 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
231 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
233 New functions to count files
235 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
236 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
238 New function to remove properties
240 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
241 drop all properties with a common pattern:
242 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
244 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
246 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
247 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
248 possibility of NULL was not documented.
250 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
252 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
253 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
254 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
255 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
256 operator may decide to change from message to message.
263 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
264 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
265 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
271 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
273 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
274 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
276 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
278 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
280 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
282 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
287 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
288 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
290 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
291 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
292 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
293 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
294 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
295 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
300 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
302 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
303 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
304 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
305 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
307 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
308 ===========================
313 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
314 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
317 Command Line Interface
318 ----------------------
320 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
321 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
324 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
325 ===========================
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
331 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
336 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
339 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
340 ===========================
345 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
348 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
349 =========================
354 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
356 Skip HTML tags when indexing
358 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
360 Command Line Interface
361 ----------------------
363 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
365 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
370 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
372 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
373 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
376 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
381 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
383 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
384 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
386 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
388 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
389 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
392 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
394 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
396 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
398 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
399 ===========================
401 Command Line Interface
402 ----------------------
404 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
409 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
411 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
412 ===========================
417 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
419 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
420 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
423 Command Line Interface
424 ----------------------
426 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
428 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
430 Fix bug in dump header
432 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
433 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
434 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
439 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
441 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
442 =========================
447 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
449 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
452 Command Line Interface
453 ----------------------
455 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
457 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
458 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
459 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
461 New default output format to 3
463 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
464 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
465 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
466 default format changes.
471 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
473 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
474 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
475 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
476 or tree view to resume.
478 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
479 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
480 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
483 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
484 they were when you postponed in the final message.
488 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
489 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
490 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
491 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
492 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
496 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
497 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
498 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
499 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
500 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
501 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
505 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
506 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
508 Stop display of `application/*` parts
510 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
511 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
512 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
513 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
514 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
515 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
516 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
517 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
520 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
522 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
523 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
524 only tagged the current thread.)
526 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
528 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
529 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
530 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
532 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
534 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
535 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
536 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
537 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
538 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
539 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
540 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
542 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
544 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
545 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
546 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
551 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
553 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
556 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
558 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
561 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
562 ===========================
567 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
569 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
570 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
571 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
574 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
575 ===========================
577 Command Line Interface
578 ----------------------
580 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
585 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
587 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
588 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
589 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
591 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
592 ===========================
597 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
598 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
600 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
601 ===========================
603 Command Line Interface
604 ----------------------
606 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
608 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
609 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
610 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
615 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
617 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
618 ===========================
620 Command Line Interface
621 ----------------------
623 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
628 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
630 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
631 ===========================
636 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
638 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
639 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
640 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
642 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
644 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
646 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
647 ===========================
652 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
654 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
659 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
661 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
662 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
663 the original colours.
665 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
666 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
668 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
670 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
671 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
672 bug, and hence the test.
674 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
675 =========================
677 General (Xapian 1.4+)
678 ---------------------
680 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
682 Support for single argument date: queries
684 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
686 Support for blocking opens
688 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
689 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
691 Support for named queries
693 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
694 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
695 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
702 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
703 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
704 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
705 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
707 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
709 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
714 Support for compile time options
716 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
717 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
720 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
722 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
723 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
724 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
725 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
726 scripts to ignore it.
731 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
733 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
734 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
735 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
737 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
738 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
739 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
740 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
741 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
742 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
743 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
745 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
746 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
749 Make internal address completion customizable
751 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
752 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
753 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
754 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
757 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
759 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
760 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
761 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
762 completion for the current buffer.
764 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
765 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
766 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
770 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
771 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
772 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
773 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
774 will be added instead.
776 Face customization is easier
778 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
779 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
780 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
781 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
783 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
788 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
793 Go bindings moved to contrib
795 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
797 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
799 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
800 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
802 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
804 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
805 ===========================
812 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
813 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
815 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
817 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
819 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
820 ===========================
825 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
827 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
832 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
837 Use `env` to locate perl.
842 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
844 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
846 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
848 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
850 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
851 =========================
858 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
859 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
861 Limited support for S/MIME messages
863 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
864 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
865 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
870 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
871 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
872 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
874 Command Line Interface
875 ----------------------
877 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
879 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
884 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
889 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
891 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
892 parts are now included in replies.
894 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
895 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
896 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
897 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
899 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
901 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
903 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
905 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
906 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
907 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
908 forwards only the current message.
910 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
912 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
913 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
914 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
915 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
916 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
917 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
918 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
919 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
922 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
923 longer generate empty buffers
925 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
926 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
927 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
928 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
929 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
931 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
933 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
936 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
938 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
941 Address completion improvements
943 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
944 you previously configured one, customize the variable
945 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
946 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
947 interactive address completion.
949 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
951 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
952 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
953 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
958 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
959 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
960 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
966 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
967 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
968 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
969 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
970 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
971 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
973 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
974 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
975 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
976 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
977 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
978 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
980 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
981 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
983 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
984 =========================
989 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
992 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
994 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
995 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
996 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
998 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
999 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1001 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1002 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1003 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1005 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1007 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1008 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1009 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1010 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1011 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1012 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1017 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1018 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1021 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1022 option to configure.
1024 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1026 Command Line Interface
1027 ----------------------
1029 Database revision tracking
1031 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1032 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1033 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1034 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1036 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1038 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1039 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1040 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1041 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1042 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1043 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1044 manual page for further information.
1049 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1051 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1052 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1054 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1056 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1057 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1058 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1060 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1062 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1064 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1065 customization as well.
1067 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1069 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1071 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1073 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1075 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1076 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1077 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1078 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1080 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1082 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1083 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1084 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1085 this variable to 10000.
1090 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1091 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1093 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1095 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1096 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1097 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1098 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1099 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1100 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1101 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1102 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1103 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1106 Database revision tracking
1108 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1109 query parser and the new function
1110 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1112 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1114 Deprecated functions
1116 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1117 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1118 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1119 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1124 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1126 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1127 ===========================
1132 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1134 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1135 ===========================
1140 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1142 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1143 =========================
1145 Command-Line Interface
1146 ----------------------
1148 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1150 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1151 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1152 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1154 Path to gpg is now configurable
1156 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1157 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1162 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1164 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1169 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1174 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1179 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1181 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1182 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1184 New error logging facility
1186 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1187 output formerly printed to stderr.
1189 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1191 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1193 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1195 Fix for rounding of seconds
1200 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1202 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1203 documentation has been removed.
1205 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1207 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1208 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1213 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1214 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1215 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1220 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1221 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1222 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1223 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1224 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1225 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1228 git checkout config origin/config
1230 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1232 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1233 =========================
1238 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1239 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1240 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1241 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1242 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1243 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1244 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1246 Command-Line Interface
1247 ----------------------
1249 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1251 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1252 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1253 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1254 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1255 script callers should still check the return value.
1257 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1259 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1260 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1261 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1262 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1263 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1264 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1265 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1267 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1269 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1270 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1271 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1273 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1275 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1276 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1277 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1278 currently unmaintained.
1280 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1282 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1283 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1284 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1285 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1287 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1289 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1290 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1291 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1292 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1293 count of duplicate addresses.
1298 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1300 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1301 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1302 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1305 Improved handling of the unread tag
1307 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1308 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1309 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1310 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1311 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1312 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1313 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1315 Expanded default saved search settings
1317 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1318 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1320 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1322 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1323 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1324 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1326 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1328 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1329 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1330 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1331 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1332 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1333 the variable for details.
1338 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1340 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1341 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1342 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1343 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1345 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1347 Previously, library users were required to call
1348 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1349 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1350 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1351 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1352 too out of date for that API.
1354 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1356 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1357 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1358 atomic section will be aborted.
1360 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1361 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1363 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1365 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1366 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1367 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1368 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1369 messages into the same thread.
1374 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1375 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1376 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1377 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1378 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1379 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1384 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1385 from the config file. Use something like:
1389 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1390 "footer": "</body></html>",
1399 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1404 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1405 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1406 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1408 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1409 ===========================
1414 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1416 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1418 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1420 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1421 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1423 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1425 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1428 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1429 ===========================
1431 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1436 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1438 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1440 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1442 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1444 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1450 Use --quick when starting emacs
1452 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1454 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1456 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1458 Command-Line Interface
1459 ----------------------
1461 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1462 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1467 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1469 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1470 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1472 Fix for phrase indexing
1474 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1475 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1476 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1481 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1483 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1484 unintentionally removed.
1486 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1487 =========================
1492 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1493 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1494 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1495 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1496 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1497 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1498 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1499 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1500 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1506 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1508 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1509 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1510 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1511 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1512 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1513 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1514 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1515 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1517 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1519 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1520 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1521 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1522 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1525 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1527 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1528 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1529 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1530 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1531 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1532 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1533 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1538 Notmuch database upgrade
1540 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1541 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1542 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1543 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1544 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1545 released version of Notmuch before now.
1547 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1549 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1550 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1551 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1552 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1554 Message header parsing changes
1556 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1557 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1558 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1559 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1560 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1561 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1563 Command-Line Interface
1564 ----------------------
1566 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1568 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1570 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1572 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1574 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1576 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1577 user does not want it.
1579 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1581 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1582 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1583 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1584 support formatted output.
1586 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1588 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1589 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1590 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1598 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1599 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1600 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1601 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1602 `~/.emacs` with these.
1604 Changed format for saved searches
1606 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1607 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1608 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1609 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1612 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1613 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1614 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1615 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1617 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1618 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1619 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1621 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1622 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1623 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1624 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1625 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1627 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1629 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1630 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1631 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1633 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1635 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1636 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1637 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1638 message had been unread).
1640 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1641 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1642 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1643 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1645 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1646 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1647 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1649 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1650 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1651 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1652 to tags already present.
1656 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1657 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1658 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1659 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1660 these differ from each other.
1661 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1663 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1665 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1666 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1667 for these Emacs versions.
1669 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1671 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1672 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1674 Bug fixes for sender identities
1676 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1677 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1678 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1680 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1682 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1683 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1684 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1685 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1687 Reply pushes mark before signature
1689 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1690 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1691 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1693 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1695 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1696 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1702 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1703 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1705 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1706 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1707 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1708 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1710 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1711 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1712 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1713 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1714 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1716 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1718 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1719 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1721 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1722 =========================
1724 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1725 ---------------------------------------
1727 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1728 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1729 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1730 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1731 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1732 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1733 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1737 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1738 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1740 Command-Line Interface
1741 ----------------------
1743 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1745 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1746 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1747 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1748 print for each message.
1750 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1751 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1752 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1753 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1755 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1757 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1758 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1759 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1761 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1763 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1764 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1765 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1766 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1768 `notmuch compact` command
1770 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1771 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1772 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1773 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1774 move the compacted database into place.
1779 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1781 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1782 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1783 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1784 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1785 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1786 and multiple threads.
1788 Using `notmuch-tree`
1790 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1792 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1793 search, show and tree mode itself)
1795 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1798 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1799 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1801 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1803 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1804 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1805 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1806 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1807 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1808 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1809 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1811 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1813 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1814 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1815 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1816 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1817 thread when the search was performed.
1819 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1821 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1822 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1823 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1825 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1827 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1828 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1831 Built-in help improvements
1833 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1834 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1835 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1837 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1839 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1840 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1841 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1843 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1845 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1846 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1848 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1850 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1851 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1852 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1853 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1855 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1857 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1858 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1859 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1860 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1862 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1864 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1865 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1866 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1868 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1870 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1871 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1872 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1874 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1876 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1877 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1878 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1879 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1880 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1882 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1884 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1885 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1886 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1887 the body part of the message.
1892 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1893 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1894 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1896 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1897 =========================
1899 Command-Line Interface
1900 ----------------------
1902 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1904 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1905 folder and notmuch index.
1907 `notmuch count --batch` option
1909 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1910 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1912 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1914 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1915 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1916 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1919 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1921 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1922 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1923 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1924 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1925 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1928 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1930 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1931 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1933 Top level option to specify configuration file
1935 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1936 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1938 Bash command-line completion
1940 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1941 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1942 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1943 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1944 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1945 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1946 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1947 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1948 bash-completion package.
1950 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1955 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1957 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1958 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1959 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1960 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1961 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1962 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1963 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1964 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1966 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1968 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1969 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1970 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1972 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1974 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1975 previous thread in the search results.
1977 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1979 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1980 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1982 Faster search and show
1984 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1985 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1986 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1987 threads should show faster.
1991 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1992 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1993 in question was now removed from this release.
1998 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1999 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2004 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2006 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2007 ===========================
2012 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2014 Internal test framework changes
2015 -------------------------------
2017 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2018 being unimplemented.
2020 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2021 ===========================
2023 Internal test framework changes
2024 -------------------------------
2026 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2027 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2029 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2030 =========================
2035 Date range search support
2037 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2038 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2039 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2040 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2041 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2044 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2046 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2047 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2048 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2049 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2050 but may be removed in a future release.
2052 Command-Line Interface
2053 ----------------------
2055 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2057 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2058 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2060 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2062 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2063 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2064 officially deprecated.
2066 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2068 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2069 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2070 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2072 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2074 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2075 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2078 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2079 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2080 dump/restore format.
2082 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2084 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2085 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2086 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2088 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2090 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2091 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2092 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2094 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2096 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2097 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2098 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2099 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2104 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2106 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2107 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2108 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2109 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2111 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2113 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2114 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2115 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2116 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2117 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2118 the behavior of this, see
2119 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2120 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2122 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2123 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2124 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2126 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2128 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2129 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2132 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2134 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2135 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2136 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2137 simply displayed in place of the message.
2139 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2141 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2142 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2144 Improved text/calendar content handling
2146 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2147 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2148 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2149 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2151 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2153 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2154 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2155 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2156 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2158 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2160 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2161 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2162 for HTML email containing images.
2164 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2166 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2168 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2170 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2173 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2175 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2176 the point where it was.
2178 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2180 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2181 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2182 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2183 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2184 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2186 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2188 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2189 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2190 thread instead of the message id.
2192 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2193 -----------------------------
2195 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2196 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2197 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2198 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2199 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2200 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2201 further details and installation.
2206 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2208 Internal test framework changes
2209 -------------------------------
2211 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2213 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2214 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2215 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2216 can result in buggy behavior.
2218 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2219 =========================
2224 Maildir tag synchronization
2226 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2227 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2228 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2229 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2230 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2231 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2234 Command-Line Interface
2235 ----------------------
2237 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2238 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2239 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2240 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2241 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2247 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2249 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2251 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2252 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2253 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2255 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2257 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2258 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2259 span multiple lines.
2261 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2263 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2264 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2265 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2266 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2267 inside the result or message.
2269 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2271 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2272 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2274 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2275 user-specified formatting
2277 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2278 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2279 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2280 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2281 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2283 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2284 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2286 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2287 ===========================
2292 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2293 compilation error for this contrib package.
2295 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2296 ===========================
2301 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2303 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2304 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2305 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2306 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2308 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2309 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2312 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2313 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2314 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2315 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2318 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2320 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2323 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2324 =========================
2326 Command-Line Interface
2327 ----------------------
2331 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2332 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2333 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2334 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2336 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2337 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2338 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2339 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2343 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2344 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2346 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2347 tag in your query, for example:
2349 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2351 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2352 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2354 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2355 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2357 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2359 Raw show format changes
2361 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2362 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2363 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2364 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2365 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2366 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2367 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2368 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2370 Listing configuration items
2372 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2378 Changes to tagging interface
2380 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2381 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2382 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2383 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2384 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2385 for more information.
2387 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2388 may need to update in custom configurations.
2390 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2392 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2393 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2394 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2395 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2398 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2399 -----------------------------
2401 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2402 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2403 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2404 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2405 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2406 contrib/ from now on.
2411 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2412 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2414 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2415 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2417 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2418 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2419 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2421 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2422 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2424 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2425 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2426 returning the new database object or directory object.
2433 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2434 compatible with go 1.
2436 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2437 =========================
2439 Command-Line Interface
2440 ----------------------
2444 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2445 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2446 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2447 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2449 Mail store folder/file ignore
2451 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2452 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2453 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2455 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2456 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2458 Unified help and manual pages
2460 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2461 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2464 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2466 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2467 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2475 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2476 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2477 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2478 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2480 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2482 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2483 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2485 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2488 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2489 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2490 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2492 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2494 should be changed to:
2496 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2498 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2500 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2501 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2503 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2505 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2506 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2507 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2508 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2509 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2510 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2514 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2515 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2516 of Mailing List Archives.
2518 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2520 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2521 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2524 Show view archiving key binding changes
2526 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2527 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2528 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2529 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2530 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2533 Support text/calendar MIME type
2535 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2538 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2540 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2541 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2542 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2543 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2545 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2547 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2548 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2549 messages blue by default in the search view.
2553 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2554 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2561 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2564 Python bindings changes
2565 -----------------------
2567 Python 3.2 compatibility
2569 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2571 Added missing unicode conversions
2573 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2574 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2575 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2580 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2582 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2583 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2584 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2585 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2586 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2588 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2589 ===========================
2594 Fix error handling in python bindings
2596 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2597 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2598 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2599 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2601 Quote MML tags in replies
2603 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2604 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2605 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2606 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2607 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2608 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2609 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2610 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2612 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2613 =========================
2615 Command-Line Interface
2616 ----------------------
2620 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2621 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2622 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2623 importing new messages into the database.
2625 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2627 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2628 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2629 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2634 Automatic tag query optimization
2636 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2637 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2638 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2640 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2642 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2643 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2644 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2649 Reduction of memory leaks
2651 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2652 and fixed in this release.
2659 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2660 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2661 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2664 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2666 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2667 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2668 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2671 Improvements in saved search management
2673 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2674 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2675 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2677 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2679 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2680 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2681 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2683 New face for crypto parts headers
2685 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2686 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2687 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2690 Use space as default thousands separator
2692 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2693 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2694 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2696 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2697 buttonized id: links
2699 New function notmuch-show-advance
2701 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2702 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2703 be bound to SPC with:
2705 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2707 Various performance improvements
2712 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2713 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2716 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2717 ===========================
2722 Fix crash in python bindings
2724 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2725 for some, but not all users.
2727 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2728 ===========================
2733 Fix `--help` argument
2735 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2736 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2737 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2739 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2740 =========================
2742 New build and testing features
2743 ------------------------------
2745 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2746 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2747 prerequisites is improved.
2749 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2751 New command-line features
2752 -------------------------
2754 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2756 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2757 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2760 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2762 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2763 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2764 favour of using stdout.
2766 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2768 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2769 limit the number of results shown.
2771 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2773 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2774 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2777 New emacs UI features
2778 ---------------------
2780 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2782 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2783 starting with "tag:".
2785 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2787 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2788 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2790 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2792 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2794 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2796 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2797 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2802 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2804 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2806 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2807 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2808 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2809 requires a database rebuild:
2811 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2812 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2814 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2816 New collection of add-on tools
2817 ------------------------------
2819 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2820 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2821 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2824 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2826 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2827 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2828 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2830 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2831 ========================
2833 New, general features
2834 ---------------------
2836 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2838 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2839 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2840 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2841 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2842 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2849 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2850 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2852 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2856 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2857 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2858 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2861 Python bindings changes
2862 -----------------------
2864 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2866 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2867 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2868 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2869 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2870 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2871 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2873 Ruby bindings changes
2874 ---------------------
2876 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2877 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2878 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2879 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2884 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2886 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2887 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2889 Reply formatting cleanup
2890 ------------------------
2892 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2893 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2895 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2896 ========================
2898 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2900 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2901 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2902 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2903 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2906 Improved Build system portability
2908 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2909 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2910 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2912 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2914 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2916 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2918 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2919 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2920 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2922 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2923 ========================
2925 Vim interface improvements
2926 --------------------------
2928 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2930 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2931 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2932 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2933 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2934 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2936 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2938 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2939 * fix compose temp file name
2941 Python Bindings changes
2942 -----------------------
2944 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2946 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2947 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2949 Build-System improvements
2950 -------------------------
2952 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2954 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2957 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2958 ==========================
2963 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2965 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2966 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2968 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2969 =======================
2971 New, general features
2972 ---------------------
2974 Folder-based searching
2976 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2977 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2978 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2982 For example, one might use things such as:
2988 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2989 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2991 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2992 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2993 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2994 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2996 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2997 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2998 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3001 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3002 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3004 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3006 Support for PGP/MIME
3008 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3009 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3010 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3012 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3014 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3015 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3017 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3018 notmuch will receive these tags.
3020 New command-line features
3021 -------------------------
3023 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3025 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3026 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3028 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3030 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3031 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3032 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3034 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3036 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3037 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3038 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3039 which parts a signature part applies).
3041 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3043 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3044 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3045 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3046 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3047 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3050 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3052 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3053 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3054 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3055 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3056 by translating it internally to the new call.
3058 Performance improvements
3059 ------------------------
3061 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3063 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3064 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3065 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3067 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3068 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3070 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3072 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3073 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3074 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3076 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3077 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3078 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3079 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3081 Faster initial indexing
3083 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3084 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3085 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3087 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3089 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3090 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3091 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3092 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3094 New emacs-interface features
3095 ----------------------------
3097 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3099 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3100 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3101 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3102 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3103 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3104 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3106 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3108 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3109 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3110 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3111 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3113 User-selectable From address
3115 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3116 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3117 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3118 will prompt for the from address to use.
3120 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3121 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3122 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3124 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3125 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3126 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3129 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3131 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3132 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3134 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3136 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3138 ----- Original Message -----
3140 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3141 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3142 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3143 citations work much like conventional citations.
3145 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3147 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3148 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3149 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3150 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3151 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3153 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3154 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3156 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3158 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3159 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3160 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3162 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3164 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3165 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3166 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3167 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3168 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3170 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3172 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3175 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3177 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3179 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3181 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3184 Vim interface improvements
3185 --------------------------
3187 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3189 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3190 * Implementing archive in show view
3191 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3192 * Add delete commands
3195 Bindings improvements
3196 ---------------------
3198 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3200 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3201 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3203 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3205 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3209 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3210 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3211 `list(Messages)` works now
3212 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3214 These allow, for example:
3216 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3218 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3220 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3226 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3228 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3231 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3233 New build-system features
3234 -------------------------
3236 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3238 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3239 the configure script from some other directory:
3246 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3248 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3249 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3250 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3251 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3252 manual invocation of configure.
3254 New test-suite feature
3255 ----------------------
3257 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3259 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3260 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3261 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3262 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3263 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3266 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3268 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3269 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3270 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3271 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3272 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3273 are updated to take advantage of this.
3275 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3277 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3278 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3279 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3280 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3286 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3288 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3289 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3290 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3292 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3294 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3296 to:user@elsewhere.com
3298 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3300 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3302 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3304 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3305 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3306 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3309 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3310 from the Received headers in some cases
3312 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3313 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3315 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3317 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3319 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3321 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3322 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3323 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3325 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3326 -------------------------
3328 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3330 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3331 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3332 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3334 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3336 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3337 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3338 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3341 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3343 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3344 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3345 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3346 fixed to avoid this bug.
3348 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3350 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3351 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3353 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3354 ========================
3356 New, general features
3357 ---------------------
3359 Maildir-flag synchronization
3361 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3362 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3371 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3373 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3374 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3375 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3376 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3378 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3379 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3380 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3381 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3384 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3386 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3387 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3388 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3390 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3391 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3393 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3394 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3396 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3397 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3398 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3400 New library features
3401 --------------------
3403 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3405 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3406 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3407 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3408 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3410 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3411 message with the new function:
3413 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3415 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3416 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3417 over all available filenames for a given message.
3419 New command-line features
3420 -------------------------
3422 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3424 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3425 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3426 access to the mail store itself.
3428 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3429 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3430 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3431 name of a script containing:
3433 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3435 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3436 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3442 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3444 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3446 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3448 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3449 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3450 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3451 now produces nothing).
3453 Emacs interface improvements
3454 ----------------------------
3456 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3458 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3460 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3462 Display current thread subject in a header line
3464 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3466 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3468 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3469 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3470 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3471 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3472 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3473 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3474 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3476 Vim interface improvements
3477 --------------------------
3479 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3481 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3482 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3488 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3490 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3491 ========================
3493 New command-line features
3494 -------------------------
3496 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3498 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3499 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3500 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3502 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3503 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3504 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3505 scripts. For example:
3507 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3508 <operations-on> "$file"
3511 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3513 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3514 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3515 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3516 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3517 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3518 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3520 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3522 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3523 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3524 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3525 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3527 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3529 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3530 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3531 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3532 default rather than Bcc.
3534 New library features
3535 --------------------
3537 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3539 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3540 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3545 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3547 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3548 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3549 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3550 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3551 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3552 notmuch customize interface.
3554 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3556 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3557 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3558 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3559 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3561 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3563 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3564 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3565 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3566 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3568 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3570 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3571 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3572 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3573 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3574 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3575 notmuch customize interface.
3577 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3579 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3580 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3581 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3582 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3583 notmuch customize interface.
3585 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3587 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3588 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3589 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3590 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3593 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3595 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3596 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3597 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3600 New build-system features
3601 -------------------------
3603 Various portability fixes have been applied
3605 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3606 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3607 more portable than ever before.
3609 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3611 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3612 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3613 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3615 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3616 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3617 automatically run ldconfig.
3619 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3620 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3621 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3623 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3624 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3625 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3626 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3628 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3630 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3631 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3632 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3633 used in the resulting Makefile.
3635 New test-suite features
3636 -----------------------
3638 New modularization of test suite
3640 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3641 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3642 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3643 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3644 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3645 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3646 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3647 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3649 New testing of emacs interface
3651 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3652 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3653 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3654 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3655 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3656 database via the FCC setting.
3661 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3663 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3664 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3665 persistent error of the form:
3667 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3669 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3670 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3672 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3674 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3675 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3676 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3678 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3680 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3681 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3682 parsing the notmuch results).
3684 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3686 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3689 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3690 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3691 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3696 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3698 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3699 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3700 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3701 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3702 the emacs interface.
3704 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3706 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3707 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3708 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3710 Python-binding fixes
3711 --------------------
3713 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3715 Debian-specific fixes
3716 ---------------------
3718 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3720 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3721 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3722 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3725 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3726 ==========================
3731 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3733 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3734 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3735 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3736 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3738 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3740 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3741 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3742 want notmuch to crash.
3747 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3749 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3750 directory does not exist
3755 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3757 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3758 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3760 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3761 ========================
3763 New command-line features
3764 -------------------------
3766 User-configurable tags for new messages
3768 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3769 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3770 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3771 to specify this value.
3773 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3775 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3776 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3777 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3779 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3781 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3782 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3784 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3786 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3787 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3788 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3789 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3790 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3793 Indication of author names that match a search
3795 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3796 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3797 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3798 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3799 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3800 messages in the thread are listed first.
3802 New: Python bindings
3803 --------------------
3805 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3806 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3807 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3808 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3810 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3811 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3812 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3815 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3816 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3817 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3819 Emacs interface improvements
3820 ----------------------------
3822 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3824 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3825 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3826 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3827 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3828 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3829 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3830 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3831 but without any of the disadvantages).
3833 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3834 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3835 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3838 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3839 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3840 instead running something like:
3842 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3844 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3845 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3846 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3849 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3851 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3852 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3853 tweaked by the user.
3855 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3856 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3857 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3860 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3861 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3862 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3865 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3867 This support currently relies on an external program,
3868 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3869 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3870 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3871 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3872 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3875 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3876 notmuch) is available via:
3878 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3880 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3881 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3882 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3884 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3886 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3887 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3888 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3889 making this automatic in a future release.
3891 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3893 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3894 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3895 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3896 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3897 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3898 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3901 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3903 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3904 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3905 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3907 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3909 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3910 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3911 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3913 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3914 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3915 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3916 other representation.
3918 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3919 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3922 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3924 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3925 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3926 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3928 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3929 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3930 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3932 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3934 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3935 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3936 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3937 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3938 to display the search result.
3940 More flexible handling of header visibility
3942 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3943 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3944 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3945 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3946 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3947 with the 'h' keybinding.
3949 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3950 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3951 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3953 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3955 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3957 Customizable formatting of search results
3959 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3960 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3961 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3963 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3965 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3967 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3972 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3974 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3975 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3976 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3977 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3983 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3985 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3986 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3988 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3990 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3991 accept are now all accepted.
3996 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3998 Better display of output from failed tests
4000 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4001 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4003 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4004 ========================
4006 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4007 detailed release notes this time!
4009 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4010 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4012 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4013 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4014 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4015 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4022 Better guessing of From: header
4024 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4025 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4026 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4027 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4028 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4031 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4033 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4034 guaranteed to match all messages.
4036 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4038 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4039 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4040 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4041 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4042 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4045 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4048 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4049 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4050 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4051 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4056 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4058 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4059 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4060 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4061 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4063 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4065 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4067 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4068 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4069 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4071 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4073 Previously, the user might see:
4075 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4079 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4081 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4082 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4083 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4084 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4086 Emacs client features
4087 ---------------------
4089 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4091 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4092 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4093 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4094 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4095 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4097 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4100 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4101 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4102 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4103 search with the '*' binding.
4105 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4107 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4108 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4111 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4113 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4114 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4115 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4117 Build-system features
4118 ---------------------
4120 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4122 Add support to configure for many standard options
4124 We include actual support for:
4126 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4128 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4130 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4131 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4133 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4134 separate "make install-emacs"
4136 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4138 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4139 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4140 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4142 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4145 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4146 ========================
4148 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4150 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4151 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4153 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4154 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4155 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4156 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4157 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4158 tags from messages in a thread.
4165 indent-tabs-mode: nil