1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
9 Notmuch 0.32 (UNRELEASED)
10 =========================
15 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
16 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
17 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
18 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
19 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
20 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
21 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
22 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
23 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
24 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
25 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
30 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
31 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
33 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
34 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
35 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
36 - `notmuch_config_get`
38 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
39 now exposed (and generalized).
41 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
42 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formated documentation in `notmuch(3)`
47 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
48 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
50 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
51 ===========================
56 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
61 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
63 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
64 ===========================
69 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
74 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
79 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
81 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
82 ===========================
87 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
88 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
90 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
91 ===========================
96 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
101 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
102 with a C++ header for some compilers.
104 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
106 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
107 =========================
112 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
113 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
114 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
116 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
118 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
120 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
122 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
125 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
127 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
128 search, show and tree mode)
130 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
133 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
136 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
137 always be newest first.
142 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
143 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
144 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
150 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
151 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
152 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
153 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
155 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
156 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
157 non-status providing versions.
159 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
160 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
162 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
163 promised in the documentation.
168 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
169 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
170 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
175 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
176 development version).
181 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
186 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
188 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
189 =========================
194 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
195 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
196 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
199 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
205 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
206 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
207 notmuch-properties(7)).
212 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
213 has protected headers (see
214 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
215 notmuch-properties(7)).
220 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
222 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
223 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
229 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
232 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
233 ===========================
238 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
240 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
245 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
247 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
248 ===========================
253 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
254 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
256 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
257 ===========================
262 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
264 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
265 =========================
270 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
271 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
274 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
275 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
276 the set of headers to be indexed.
278 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
281 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
282 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
283 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
286 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
287 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
288 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
290 Command Line Interface
291 ----------------------
293 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
296 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
298 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
299 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
300 more details about what is included there. This status includes
301 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
306 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
307 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
309 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
311 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
313 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
315 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
317 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
320 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
322 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
323 and may be removed in a future release.
325 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
331 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
333 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
334 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
339 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
340 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
341 cryptography support.
346 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
347 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
348 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
350 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
351 ===========================
353 Command line interface
354 ----------------------
356 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
357 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
359 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
360 ===========================
365 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
366 by message properties.
371 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
373 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
374 ===========================
379 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
384 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
385 now needed to build this documentation.
387 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
388 ===========================
393 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
394 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
396 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
397 =========================
404 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
405 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
406 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
407 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
408 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
411 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
413 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
414 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
415 correct encoding for such messages.
417 Command Line Interface
418 ----------------------
420 Support relative database paths
422 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
423 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
424 to $HOME of the invoking user.
429 Improve stderr handling
431 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
432 needed on e.g. macOS.
434 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
436 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
441 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
442 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
448 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
449 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
455 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
456 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
459 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
460 =========================
465 Add support for thread:{} queries
467 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
468 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
469 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
471 Command Line Interface
472 ----------------------
474 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
476 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
478 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
480 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
481 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
482 does not have to be available during message receipt.
487 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
493 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
494 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
496 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
497 ===========================
502 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
504 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
505 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
506 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
508 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
510 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
511 related abort in `notmuch show`.
513 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
514 ===========================
519 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
520 better late than never.
523 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
524 =========================
526 Command Line Interface
527 ----------------------
529 Support for re-indexing existing messages
531 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
532 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
533 change the way specific messages are indexed.
535 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
536 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
537 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
539 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
541 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
543 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
545 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
546 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
547 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
548 the setting of `new.tags`.
550 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
552 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
554 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
556 This inserts into the top level folder.
558 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
560 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
562 New option --output=address for notmuch address
564 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
566 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
568 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
569 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
570 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
572 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
577 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
579 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
580 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
581 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
582 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
583 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
584 config set index.decrypt true".
586 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
587 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
588 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
589 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
590 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
591 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
592 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
593 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
595 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
596 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
597 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
598 this feature without considering the security of your index.
603 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
605 Use make-process when available
607 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
608 notmuch command without using temporary files.
613 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
615 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
616 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
617 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
618 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
620 New functions to count files
622 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
623 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
625 New function to remove properties
627 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
628 drop all properties with a common pattern:
629 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
631 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
633 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
634 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
635 possibility of NULL was not documented.
637 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
639 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
640 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
641 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
642 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
643 operator may decide to change from message to message.
650 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
651 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
652 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
658 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
660 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
661 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
663 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
665 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
667 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
669 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
674 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
675 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
677 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
678 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
679 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
680 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
681 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
682 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
687 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
689 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
690 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
691 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
692 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
694 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
695 ===========================
700 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
701 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
704 Command Line Interface
705 ----------------------
707 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
708 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
711 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
712 ===========================
714 Command Line Interface
715 ----------------------
717 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
718 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
723 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
726 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
727 ===========================
732 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
735 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
736 =========================
741 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
743 Skip HTML tags when indexing
745 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
747 Command Line Interface
748 ----------------------
750 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
752 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
757 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
759 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
760 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
763 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
768 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
770 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
771 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
773 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
775 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
776 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
779 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
781 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
783 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
785 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
786 ===========================
788 Command Line Interface
789 ----------------------
791 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
796 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
798 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
799 ===========================
804 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
806 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
807 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
810 Command Line Interface
811 ----------------------
813 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
815 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
817 Fix bug in dump header
819 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
820 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
821 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
826 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
828 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
829 =========================
834 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
836 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
839 Command Line Interface
840 ----------------------
842 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
844 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
845 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
846 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
848 New default output format to 3
850 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
851 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
852 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
853 default format changes.
858 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
860 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
861 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
862 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
863 or tree view to resume.
865 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
866 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
867 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
870 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
871 they were when you postponed in the final message.
875 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
876 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
877 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
878 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
879 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
883 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
884 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
885 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
886 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
887 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
888 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
892 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
893 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
895 Stop display of `application/*` parts
897 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
898 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
899 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
900 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
901 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
902 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
903 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
904 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
907 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
909 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
910 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
911 only tagged the current thread.)
913 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
915 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
916 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
917 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
919 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
921 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
922 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
923 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
924 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
925 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
926 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
927 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
929 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
931 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
932 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
933 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
938 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
940 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
943 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
945 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
948 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
949 ===========================
954 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
956 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
957 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
958 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
961 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
962 ===========================
964 Command Line Interface
965 ----------------------
967 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
972 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
974 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
975 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
976 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
978 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
979 ===========================
984 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
985 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
987 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
988 ===========================
990 Command Line Interface
991 ----------------------
993 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
995 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
996 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
997 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1002 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1004 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1005 ===========================
1007 Command Line Interface
1008 ----------------------
1010 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1015 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1017 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1018 ===========================
1023 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1025 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1026 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1027 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1029 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1031 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1033 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1034 ===========================
1039 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1041 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1046 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1048 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1049 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1050 the original colours.
1052 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1053 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1055 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1057 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1058 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1059 bug, and hence the test.
1061 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1062 =========================
1064 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1065 ---------------------
1067 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1069 Support for single argument date: queries
1071 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1073 Support for blocking opens
1075 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1076 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1078 Support for named queries
1080 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1081 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1082 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1087 Message property API
1089 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1090 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1091 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1092 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1094 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1096 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1101 Support for compile time options
1103 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1104 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1107 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1109 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1110 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1111 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1112 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1113 scripts to ignore it.
1118 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1120 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1121 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1122 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1124 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1125 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1126 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1127 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1128 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1129 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1130 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1132 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1133 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1136 Make internal address completion customizable
1138 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1139 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1140 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1141 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1144 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1146 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1147 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1148 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1149 completion for the current buffer.
1151 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1152 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1153 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1157 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1158 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1159 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1160 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1161 will be added instead.
1163 Face customization is easier
1165 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1166 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1167 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1168 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1170 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1175 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1180 Go bindings moved to contrib
1182 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1184 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1186 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1187 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1189 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1191 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1192 ===========================
1199 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1200 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1202 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1204 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1206 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1207 ===========================
1212 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1214 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1219 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1224 Use `env` to locate perl.
1229 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1231 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1233 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1235 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1237 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1238 =========================
1245 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1246 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1248 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1250 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1251 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1252 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1257 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1258 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1259 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1261 Command Line Interface
1262 ----------------------
1264 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1266 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1271 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1276 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1278 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1279 parts are now included in replies.
1281 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1282 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1283 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1284 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1286 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1288 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1290 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1292 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1293 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1294 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1295 forwards only the current message.
1297 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1299 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1300 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1301 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1302 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1303 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1304 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1305 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1306 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1309 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1310 longer generate empty buffers
1312 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1313 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1314 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1315 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1316 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1318 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1320 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1323 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1325 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1328 Address completion improvements
1330 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1331 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1332 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1333 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1334 interactive address completion.
1336 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1338 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1339 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1340 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1345 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1346 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1347 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1353 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1354 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1355 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1356 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1357 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1358 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1360 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1361 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1362 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1363 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1364 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1365 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1367 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1368 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1370 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1371 =========================
1376 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1379 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1381 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1382 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1383 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1385 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1386 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1388 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1389 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1390 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1392 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1394 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1395 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1396 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1397 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1398 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1399 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1404 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1405 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1408 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1409 option to configure.
1411 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1413 Command Line Interface
1414 ----------------------
1416 Database revision tracking
1418 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1419 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1420 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1421 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1423 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1425 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1426 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1427 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1428 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1429 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1430 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1431 manual page for further information.
1436 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1438 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1439 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1441 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1443 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1444 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1445 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1447 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1449 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1451 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1452 customization as well.
1454 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1456 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1458 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1460 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1462 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1463 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1464 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1465 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1467 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1469 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1470 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1471 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1472 this variable to 10000.
1477 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1478 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1480 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1482 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1483 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1484 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1485 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1486 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1487 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1488 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1489 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1490 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1493 Database revision tracking
1495 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1496 query parser and the new function
1497 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1499 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1501 Deprecated functions
1503 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1504 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1505 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1506 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1511 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1513 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1514 ===========================
1519 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1521 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1522 ===========================
1527 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1529 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1530 =========================
1532 Command-Line Interface
1533 ----------------------
1535 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1537 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1538 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1539 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1541 Path to gpg is now configurable
1543 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1544 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1549 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1551 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1556 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1561 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1566 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1568 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1569 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1571 New error logging facility
1573 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1574 output formerly printed to stderr.
1576 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1578 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1580 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1582 Fix for rounding of seconds
1587 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1589 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1590 documentation has been removed.
1592 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1594 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1595 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1600 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1601 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1602 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1607 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1608 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1609 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1610 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1611 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1612 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1615 git checkout config origin/config
1617 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1619 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1620 =========================
1625 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1626 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1627 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1628 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1629 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1630 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1631 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1633 Command-Line Interface
1634 ----------------------
1636 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1638 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1639 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1640 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1641 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1642 script callers should still check the return value.
1644 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1646 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1647 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1648 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1649 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1650 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1651 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1652 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1654 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1656 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1657 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1658 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1660 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1662 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1663 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1664 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1665 currently unmaintained.
1667 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1669 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1670 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1671 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1672 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1674 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1676 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1677 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1678 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1679 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1680 count of duplicate addresses.
1685 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1687 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1688 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1689 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1692 Improved handling of the unread tag
1694 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1695 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1696 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1697 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1698 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1699 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1700 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1702 Expanded default saved search settings
1704 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1705 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1707 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1709 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1710 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1711 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1713 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1715 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1716 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1717 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1718 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1719 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1720 the variable for details.
1725 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1727 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1728 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1729 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1730 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1732 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1734 Previously, library users were required to call
1735 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1736 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1737 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1738 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1739 too out of date for that API.
1741 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1743 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1744 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1745 atomic section will be aborted.
1747 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1748 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1750 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1752 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1753 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1754 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1755 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1756 messages into the same thread.
1761 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1762 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1763 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1764 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1765 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1766 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1771 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1772 from the config file. Use something like:
1776 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1777 "footer": "</body></html>",
1786 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1791 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1792 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1793 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1795 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1796 ===========================
1801 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1803 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1805 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1807 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1808 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1810 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1812 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1815 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1816 ===========================
1818 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1823 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1825 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1827 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1829 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1831 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1837 Use --quick when starting emacs
1839 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1841 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1843 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1845 Command-Line Interface
1846 ----------------------
1848 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1849 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1854 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1856 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1857 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1859 Fix for phrase indexing
1861 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1862 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1863 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1868 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1870 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1871 unintentionally removed.
1873 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1874 =========================
1879 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1880 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1881 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1882 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1883 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1884 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1885 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1886 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1887 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1893 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1895 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1896 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1897 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1898 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1899 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1900 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1901 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1902 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1904 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1906 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1907 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1908 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1909 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1912 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1914 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1915 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1916 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1917 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1918 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1919 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1920 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1925 Notmuch database upgrade
1927 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1928 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1929 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1930 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1931 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1932 released version of Notmuch before now.
1934 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1936 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1937 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1938 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1939 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1941 Message header parsing changes
1943 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1944 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1945 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1946 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1947 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1948 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1950 Command-Line Interface
1951 ----------------------
1953 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1955 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1957 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1959 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1961 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1963 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1964 user does not want it.
1966 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1968 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1969 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1970 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1971 support formatted output.
1973 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1975 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1976 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1977 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1985 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1986 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1987 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1988 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1989 `~/.emacs` with these.
1991 Changed format for saved searches
1993 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1994 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1995 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1996 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1999 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2000 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2001 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2002 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2004 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2005 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2006 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2008 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2009 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2010 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2011 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2012 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2014 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2016 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2017 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2018 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2020 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2022 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2023 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2024 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2025 message had been unread).
2027 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2028 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2029 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2030 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2032 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2033 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2034 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2036 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2037 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2038 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2039 to tags already present.
2043 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2044 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2045 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2046 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2047 these differ from each other.
2048 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2050 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2052 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2053 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2054 for these Emacs versions.
2056 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2058 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2059 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2061 Bug fixes for sender identities
2063 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2064 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2065 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2067 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2069 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2070 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2071 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2072 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2074 Reply pushes mark before signature
2076 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2077 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2078 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2080 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2082 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2083 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2089 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2090 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2092 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2093 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2094 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2095 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2097 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2098 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2099 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2100 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2101 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2103 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2105 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2106 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2108 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2109 =========================
2111 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2112 ---------------------------------------
2114 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2115 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2116 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2117 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2118 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2119 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2120 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2124 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2125 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2127 Command-Line Interface
2128 ----------------------
2130 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2132 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2133 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2134 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2135 print for each message.
2137 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2138 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2139 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2140 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2142 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2144 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2145 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2146 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2148 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2150 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2151 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2152 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2153 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2155 `notmuch compact` command
2157 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2158 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2159 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2160 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2161 move the compacted database into place.
2166 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2168 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2169 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2170 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2171 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2172 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2173 and multiple threads.
2175 Using `notmuch-tree`
2177 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2179 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2180 search, show and tree mode itself)
2182 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2185 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2186 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2188 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2190 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2191 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2192 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2193 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2194 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2195 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2196 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2198 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2200 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2201 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2202 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2203 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2204 thread when the search was performed.
2206 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2208 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2209 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2210 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2212 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2214 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2215 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2218 Built-in help improvements
2220 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2221 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2222 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2224 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2226 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2227 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2228 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2230 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2232 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2233 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2235 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2237 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2238 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2239 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2240 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2242 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2244 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2245 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2246 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2247 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2249 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2251 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2252 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2253 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2255 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2257 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2258 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2259 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2261 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2263 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2264 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2265 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2266 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2267 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2269 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2271 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2272 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2273 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2274 the body part of the message.
2279 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2280 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2281 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2283 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2284 =========================
2286 Command-Line Interface
2287 ----------------------
2289 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2291 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2292 folder and notmuch index.
2294 `notmuch count --batch` option
2296 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2297 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2299 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2301 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2302 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2303 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2306 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2308 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2309 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2310 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2311 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2312 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2315 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2317 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2318 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2320 Top level option to specify configuration file
2322 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2323 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2325 Bash command-line completion
2327 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2328 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2329 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2330 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2331 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2332 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2333 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2334 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2335 bash-completion package.
2337 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2342 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2344 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2345 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2346 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2347 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2348 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2349 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2350 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2351 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2353 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2355 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2356 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2357 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2359 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2361 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2362 previous thread in the search results.
2364 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2366 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2367 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2369 Faster search and show
2371 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2372 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2373 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2374 threads should show faster.
2378 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2379 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2380 in question was now removed from this release.
2385 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2386 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2391 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2393 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2394 ===========================
2399 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2401 Internal test framework changes
2402 -------------------------------
2404 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2405 being unimplemented.
2407 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2408 ===========================
2410 Internal test framework changes
2411 -------------------------------
2413 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2414 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2416 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2417 =========================
2422 Date range search support
2424 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2425 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2426 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2427 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2428 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2431 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2433 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2434 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2435 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2436 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2437 but may be removed in a future release.
2439 Command-Line Interface
2440 ----------------------
2442 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2444 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2445 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2447 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2449 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2450 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2451 officially deprecated.
2453 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2455 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2456 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2457 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2459 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2461 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2462 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2465 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2466 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2467 dump/restore format.
2469 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2471 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2472 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2473 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2475 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2477 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2478 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2479 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2481 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2483 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2484 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2485 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2486 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2491 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2493 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2494 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2495 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2496 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2498 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2500 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2501 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2502 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2503 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2504 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2505 the behavior of this, see
2506 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2507 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2509 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2510 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2511 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2513 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2515 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2516 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2519 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2521 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2522 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2523 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2524 simply displayed in place of the message.
2526 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2528 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2529 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2531 Improved text/calendar content handling
2533 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2534 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2535 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2536 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2538 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2540 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2541 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2542 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2543 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2545 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2547 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2548 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2549 for HTML email containing images.
2551 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2553 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2555 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2557 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2560 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2562 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2563 the point where it was.
2565 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2567 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2568 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2569 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2570 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2571 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2573 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2575 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2576 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2577 thread instead of the message id.
2579 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2580 -----------------------------
2582 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2583 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2584 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2585 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2586 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2587 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2588 further details and installation.
2593 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2595 Internal test framework changes
2596 -------------------------------
2598 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2600 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2601 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2602 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2603 can result in buggy behavior.
2605 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2606 =========================
2611 Maildir tag synchronization
2613 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2614 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2615 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2616 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2617 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2618 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2621 Command-Line Interface
2622 ----------------------
2624 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2625 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2626 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2627 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2628 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2634 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2636 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2638 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2639 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2640 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2642 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2644 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2645 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2646 span multiple lines.
2648 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2650 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2651 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2652 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2653 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2654 inside the result or message.
2656 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2658 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2659 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2661 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2662 user-specified formatting
2664 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2665 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2666 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2667 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2668 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2670 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2671 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2673 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2674 ===========================
2679 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2680 compilation error for this contrib package.
2682 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2683 ===========================
2688 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2690 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2691 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2692 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2693 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2695 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2696 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2699 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2700 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2701 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2702 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2705 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2707 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2710 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2711 =========================
2713 Command-Line Interface
2714 ----------------------
2718 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2719 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2720 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2721 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2723 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2724 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2725 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2726 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2730 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2731 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2733 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2734 tag in your query, for example:
2736 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2738 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2739 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2741 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2742 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2744 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2746 Raw show format changes
2748 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2749 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2750 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2751 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2752 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2753 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2754 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2755 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2757 Listing configuration items
2759 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2765 Changes to tagging interface
2767 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2768 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2769 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2770 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2771 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2772 for more information.
2774 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2775 may need to update in custom configurations.
2777 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2779 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2780 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2781 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2782 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2785 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2786 -----------------------------
2788 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2789 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2790 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2791 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2792 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2793 contrib/ from now on.
2798 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2799 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2801 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2802 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2804 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2805 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2806 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2808 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2809 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2811 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2812 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2813 returning the new database object or directory object.
2820 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2821 compatible with go 1.
2823 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2824 =========================
2826 Command-Line Interface
2827 ----------------------
2831 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2832 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2833 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2834 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2836 Mail store folder/file ignore
2838 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2839 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2840 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2842 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2843 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2845 Unified help and manual pages
2847 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2848 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2851 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2853 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2854 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2862 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2863 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2864 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2865 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2867 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2869 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2870 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2872 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2875 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2876 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2877 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2879 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2881 should be changed to:
2883 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2885 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2887 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2888 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2890 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2892 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2893 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2894 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2895 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2896 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2897 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2901 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2902 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2903 of Mailing List Archives.
2905 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2907 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2908 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2911 Show view archiving key binding changes
2913 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2914 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2915 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2916 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2917 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2920 Support text/calendar MIME type
2922 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2925 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2927 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2928 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2929 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2930 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2932 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2934 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2935 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2936 messages blue by default in the search view.
2940 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2941 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2948 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2951 Python bindings changes
2952 -----------------------
2954 Python 3.2 compatibility
2956 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2958 Added missing unicode conversions
2960 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2961 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2962 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2967 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2969 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2970 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2971 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2972 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2973 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2975 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2976 ===========================
2981 Fix error handling in python bindings
2983 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2984 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2985 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2986 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2988 Quote MML tags in replies
2990 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2991 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2992 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2993 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2994 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2995 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2996 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2997 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2999 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3000 =========================
3002 Command-Line Interface
3003 ----------------------
3007 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3008 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3009 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3010 importing new messages into the database.
3012 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3014 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3015 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3016 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3021 Automatic tag query optimization
3023 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3024 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3025 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3027 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3029 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3030 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3031 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3036 Reduction of memory leaks
3038 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3039 and fixed in this release.
3046 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3047 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3048 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3051 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3053 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3054 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3055 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3058 Improvements in saved search management
3060 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3061 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3062 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3064 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3066 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3067 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3068 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3070 New face for crypto parts headers
3072 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3073 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3074 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3077 Use space as default thousands separator
3079 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3080 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3081 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3083 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3084 buttonized id: links
3086 New function notmuch-show-advance
3088 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3089 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3090 be bound to SPC with:
3092 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3094 Various performance improvements
3099 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3100 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3103 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3104 ===========================
3109 Fix crash in python bindings
3111 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3112 for some, but not all users.
3114 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3115 ===========================
3120 Fix `--help` argument
3122 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3123 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3124 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3126 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3127 =========================
3129 New build and testing features
3130 ------------------------------
3132 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3133 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3134 prerequisites is improved.
3136 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3138 New command-line features
3139 -------------------------
3141 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3143 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3144 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3147 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3149 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3150 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3151 favour of using stdout.
3153 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3155 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3156 limit the number of results shown.
3158 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3160 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3161 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3164 New emacs UI features
3165 ---------------------
3167 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3169 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3170 starting with "tag:".
3172 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3174 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3175 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3177 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3179 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3181 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3183 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3184 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3189 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3191 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3193 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3194 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3195 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3196 requires a database rebuild:
3198 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3199 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3201 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3203 New collection of add-on tools
3204 ------------------------------
3206 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3207 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3208 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3211 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3213 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3214 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3215 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3217 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3218 ========================
3220 New, general features
3221 ---------------------
3223 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3225 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3226 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3227 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3228 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3229 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3236 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3237 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3239 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3243 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3244 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3245 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3248 Python bindings changes
3249 -----------------------
3251 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3253 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3254 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3255 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3256 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3257 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3258 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3260 Ruby bindings changes
3261 ---------------------
3263 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3264 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3265 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3266 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3271 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3273 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3274 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3276 Reply formatting cleanup
3277 ------------------------
3279 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3280 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3282 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3283 ========================
3285 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3287 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3288 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3289 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3290 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3293 Improved Build system portability
3295 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3296 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3297 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3299 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3301 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3303 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3305 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3306 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3307 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3309 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3310 ========================
3312 Vim interface improvements
3313 --------------------------
3315 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3317 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3318 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3319 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3320 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3321 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3323 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3325 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3326 * fix compose temp file name
3328 Python Bindings changes
3329 -----------------------
3331 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3333 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3334 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3336 Build-System improvements
3337 -------------------------
3339 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3341 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3344 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3345 ==========================
3350 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3352 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3353 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3355 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3356 =======================
3358 New, general features
3359 ---------------------
3361 Folder-based searching
3363 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3364 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3365 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3369 For example, one might use things such as:
3375 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3376 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3378 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3379 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3380 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3381 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3383 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3384 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3385 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3388 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3389 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3391 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3393 Support for PGP/MIME
3395 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3396 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3397 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3399 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3401 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3402 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3404 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3405 notmuch will receive these tags.
3407 New command-line features
3408 -------------------------
3410 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3412 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3413 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3415 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3417 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3418 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3419 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3421 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3423 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3424 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3425 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3426 which parts a signature part applies).
3428 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3430 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3431 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3432 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3433 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3434 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3437 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3439 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3440 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3441 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3442 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3443 by translating it internally to the new call.
3445 Performance improvements
3446 ------------------------
3448 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3450 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3451 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3452 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3454 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3455 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3457 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3459 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3460 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3461 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3463 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3464 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3465 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3466 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3468 Faster initial indexing
3470 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3471 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3472 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3474 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3476 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3477 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3478 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3479 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3481 New emacs-interface features
3482 ----------------------------
3484 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3486 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3487 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3488 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3489 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3490 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3491 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3493 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3495 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3496 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3497 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3498 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3500 User-selectable From address
3502 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3503 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3504 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3505 will prompt for the from address to use.
3507 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3508 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3509 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3511 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3512 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3513 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3516 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3518 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3519 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3521 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3523 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3525 ----- Original Message -----
3527 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3528 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3529 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3530 citations work much like conventional citations.
3532 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3534 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3535 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3536 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3537 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3538 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3540 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3541 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3543 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3545 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3546 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3547 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3549 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3551 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3552 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3553 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3554 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3555 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3557 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3559 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3562 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3564 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3566 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3568 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3571 Vim interface improvements
3572 --------------------------
3574 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3576 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3577 * Implementing archive in show view
3578 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3579 * Add delete commands
3582 Bindings improvements
3583 ---------------------
3585 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3587 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3588 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3590 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3592 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3596 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3597 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3598 `list(Messages)` works now
3599 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3601 These allow, for example:
3603 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3605 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3607 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3613 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3615 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3618 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3620 New build-system features
3621 -------------------------
3623 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3625 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3626 the configure script from some other directory:
3633 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3635 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3636 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3637 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3638 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3639 manual invocation of configure.
3641 New test-suite feature
3642 ----------------------
3644 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3646 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3647 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3648 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3649 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3650 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3653 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3655 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3656 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3657 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3658 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3659 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3660 are updated to take advantage of this.
3662 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3664 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3665 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3666 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3667 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3673 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3675 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3676 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3677 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3679 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3681 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3683 to:user@elsewhere.com
3685 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3687 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3689 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3691 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3692 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3693 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3696 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3697 from the Received headers in some cases
3699 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3700 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3702 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3704 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3706 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3708 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3709 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3710 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3712 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3713 -------------------------
3715 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3717 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3718 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3719 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3721 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3723 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3724 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3725 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3728 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3730 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3731 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3732 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3733 fixed to avoid this bug.
3735 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3737 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3738 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3740 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3741 ========================
3743 New, general features
3744 ---------------------
3746 Maildir-flag synchronization
3748 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3749 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3758 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3760 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3761 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3762 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3763 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3765 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3766 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3767 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3768 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3771 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3773 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3774 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3775 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3777 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3778 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3780 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3781 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3783 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3784 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3785 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3787 New library features
3788 --------------------
3790 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3792 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3793 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3794 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3795 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3797 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3798 message with the new function:
3800 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3802 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3803 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3804 over all available filenames for a given message.
3806 New command-line features
3807 -------------------------
3809 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3811 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3812 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3813 access to the mail store itself.
3815 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3816 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3817 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3818 name of a script containing:
3820 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3822 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3823 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3829 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3831 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3833 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3835 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3836 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3837 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3838 now produces nothing).
3840 Emacs interface improvements
3841 ----------------------------
3843 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3845 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3847 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3849 Display current thread subject in a header line
3851 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3853 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3855 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3856 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3857 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3858 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3859 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3860 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3861 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3863 Vim interface improvements
3864 --------------------------
3866 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3868 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3869 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3875 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3877 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3878 ========================
3880 New command-line features
3881 -------------------------
3883 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3885 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3886 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3887 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3889 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3890 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3891 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3892 scripts. For example:
3894 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3895 <operations-on> "$file"
3898 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3900 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3901 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3902 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3903 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3904 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3905 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3907 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3909 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3910 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3911 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3912 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3914 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3916 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3917 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3918 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3919 default rather than Bcc.
3921 New library features
3922 --------------------
3924 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3926 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3927 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3932 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3934 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3935 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3936 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3937 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3938 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3939 notmuch customize interface.
3941 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3943 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3944 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3945 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3946 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3948 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3950 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3951 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3952 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3953 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3955 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3957 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3958 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3959 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3960 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3961 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3962 notmuch customize interface.
3964 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3966 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3967 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3968 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3969 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3970 notmuch customize interface.
3972 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3974 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3975 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3976 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3977 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3980 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3982 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3983 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3984 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3987 New build-system features
3988 -------------------------
3990 Various portability fixes have been applied
3992 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3993 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3994 more portable than ever before.
3996 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3998 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3999 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4000 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4002 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4003 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4004 automatically run ldconfig.
4006 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4007 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4008 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4010 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4011 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4012 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4013 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4015 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4017 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4018 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4019 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4020 used in the resulting Makefile.
4022 New test-suite features
4023 -----------------------
4025 New modularization of test suite
4027 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4028 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4029 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4030 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4031 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4032 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4033 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4034 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4036 New testing of emacs interface
4038 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4039 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4040 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4041 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4042 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4043 database via the FCC setting.
4048 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4050 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4051 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4052 persistent error of the form:
4054 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4056 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4057 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4059 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4061 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4062 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4063 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4065 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4067 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4068 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4069 parsing the notmuch results).
4071 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4073 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4076 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4077 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4078 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4083 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4085 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4086 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4087 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4088 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4089 the emacs interface.
4091 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4093 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4094 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4095 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4097 Python-binding fixes
4098 --------------------
4100 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4102 Debian-specific fixes
4103 ---------------------
4105 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4107 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4108 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4109 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4112 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4113 ==========================
4118 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4120 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4121 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4122 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4123 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4125 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4127 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4128 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4129 want notmuch to crash.
4134 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4136 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4137 directory does not exist
4142 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4144 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4145 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4147 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4148 ========================
4150 New command-line features
4151 -------------------------
4153 User-configurable tags for new messages
4155 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4156 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4157 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4158 to specify this value.
4160 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4162 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4163 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4164 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4166 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4168 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4169 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4171 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4173 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4174 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4175 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4176 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4177 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4180 Indication of author names that match a search
4182 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4183 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4184 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4185 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4186 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4187 messages in the thread are listed first.
4189 New: Python bindings
4190 --------------------
4192 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4193 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4194 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4195 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4197 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4198 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4199 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4202 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4203 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4204 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4206 Emacs interface improvements
4207 ----------------------------
4209 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4211 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4212 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4213 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4214 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4215 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4216 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4217 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4218 but without any of the disadvantages).
4220 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4221 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4222 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4225 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4226 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4227 instead running something like:
4229 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4231 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4232 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4233 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4236 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4238 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4239 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4240 tweaked by the user.
4242 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4243 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4244 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4247 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4248 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4249 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4252 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4254 This support currently relies on an external program,
4255 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4256 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4257 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4258 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4259 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4262 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4263 notmuch) is available via:
4265 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4267 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4268 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4269 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4271 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4273 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4274 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4275 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4276 making this automatic in a future release.
4278 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4280 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4281 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4282 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4283 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4284 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4285 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4288 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4290 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4291 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4292 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4294 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4296 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4297 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4298 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4300 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4301 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4302 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4303 other representation.
4305 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4306 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4309 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4311 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4312 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4313 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4315 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4316 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4317 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4319 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4321 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4322 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4323 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4324 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4325 to display the search result.
4327 More flexible handling of header visibility
4329 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4330 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4331 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4332 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4333 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4334 with the 'h' keybinding.
4336 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4337 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4338 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4340 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4342 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4344 Customizable formatting of search results
4346 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4347 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4348 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4350 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4352 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4354 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4359 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4361 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4362 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4363 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4364 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4370 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4372 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4373 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4375 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4377 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4378 accept are now all accepted.
4383 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4385 Better display of output from failed tests
4387 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4388 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4390 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4391 ========================
4393 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4394 detailed release notes this time!
4396 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4397 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4399 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4400 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4401 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4402 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4409 Better guessing of From: header
4411 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4412 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4413 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4414 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4415 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4418 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4420 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4421 guaranteed to match all messages.
4423 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4425 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4426 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4427 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4428 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4429 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4432 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4435 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4436 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4437 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4438 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4443 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4445 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4446 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4447 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4448 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4450 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4452 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4454 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4455 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4456 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4458 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4460 Previously, the user might see:
4462 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4466 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4468 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4469 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4470 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4471 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4473 Emacs client features
4474 ---------------------
4476 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4478 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4479 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4480 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4481 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4482 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4484 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4487 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4488 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4489 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4490 search with the '*' binding.
4492 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4494 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4495 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4498 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4500 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4501 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4502 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4504 Build-system features
4505 ---------------------
4507 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4509 Add support to configure for many standard options
4511 We include actual support for:
4513 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4515 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4517 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4518 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4520 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4521 separate "make install-emacs"
4523 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4525 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4526 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4527 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4529 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4532 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4533 ========================
4535 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4537 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4538 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4540 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4541 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4542 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4543 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4544 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4545 tags from messages in a thread.
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