1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
38 --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
40 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
41 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
42 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
47 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
49 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
50 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
51 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
52 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
53 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
54 config set index.decrypt true".
56 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
57 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
58 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
59 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
60 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
61 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
62 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
63 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
65 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
66 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
67 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
68 this feature without considering the security of your index.
73 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
75 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
76 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
77 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
78 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
80 New functions to count files
82 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
83 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
85 New function to remove properties
87 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
88 drop all properties with a common pattern:
89 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
91 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
93 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
94 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
95 possibility of NULL was not documented.
97 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
99 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
100 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
101 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
102 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
103 operator may decide to change from message to message.
108 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
110 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
111 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
113 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
115 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
117 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
119 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
124 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
125 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
127 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
128 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
129 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
130 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
131 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
132 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
134 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
135 ===========================
140 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
141 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
144 Command Line Interface
145 ----------------------
147 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
148 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
151 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
152 ===========================
154 Command Line Interface
155 ----------------------
157 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
158 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
163 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
166 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
167 ===========================
172 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
175 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
176 =========================
181 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
183 Skip HTML tags when indexing
185 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
187 Command Line Interface
188 ----------------------
190 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
192 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
197 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
199 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
200 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
203 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
208 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
210 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
211 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
213 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
215 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
216 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
219 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
221 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
223 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
225 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
226 ===========================
228 Command Line Interface
229 ----------------------
231 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
236 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
238 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
239 ===========================
244 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
246 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
247 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
250 Command Line Interface
251 ----------------------
253 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
255 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
257 Fix bug in dump header
259 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
260 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
261 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
266 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
268 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
269 =========================
274 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
276 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
279 Command Line Interface
280 ----------------------
282 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
284 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
285 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
286 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
288 New default output format to 3
290 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
291 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
292 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
293 default format changes.
298 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
300 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
301 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
302 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
303 or tree view to resume.
305 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
306 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
307 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
310 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
311 they were when you postponed in the final message.
315 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
316 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
317 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
318 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
319 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
323 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
324 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
325 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
326 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
327 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
328 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
332 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
333 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
335 Stop display of `application/*` parts
337 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
338 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
339 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
340 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
341 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
342 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
343 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
344 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
347 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
349 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
350 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
351 only tagged the current thread.)
353 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
355 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
356 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
357 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
359 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
361 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
362 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
363 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
364 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
365 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
366 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
367 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
369 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
371 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
372 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
373 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
378 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
380 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
383 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
385 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
388 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
389 ===========================
394 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
396 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
397 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
398 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
401 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
402 ===========================
404 Command Line Interface
405 ----------------------
407 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
412 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
414 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
415 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
416 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
418 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
419 ===========================
424 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
425 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
427 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
428 ===========================
430 Command Line Interface
431 ----------------------
433 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
435 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
436 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
437 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
442 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
444 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
445 ===========================
447 Command Line Interface
448 ----------------------
450 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
455 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
457 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
458 ===========================
463 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
465 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
466 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
467 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
469 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
471 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
473 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
474 ===========================
479 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
481 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
486 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
488 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
489 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
490 the original colours.
492 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
493 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
495 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
497 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
498 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
499 bug, and hence the test.
501 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
502 =========================
504 General (Xapian 1.4+)
505 ---------------------
507 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
509 Support for single argument date: queries
511 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
513 Support for blocking opens
515 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
516 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
518 Support for named queries
520 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
521 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
522 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
529 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
530 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
531 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
532 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
534 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
536 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
541 Support for compile time options
543 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
544 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
547 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
549 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
550 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
551 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
552 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
553 scripts to ignore it.
558 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
560 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
561 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
562 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
564 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
565 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
566 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
567 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
568 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
569 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
570 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
572 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
573 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
576 Make internal address completion customizable
578 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
579 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
580 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
581 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
584 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
586 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
587 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
588 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
589 completion for the current buffer.
591 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
592 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
593 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
597 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
598 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
599 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
600 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
601 will be added instead.
603 Face customization is easier
605 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
606 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
607 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
608 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
610 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
615 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
620 Go bindings moved to contrib
622 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
624 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
626 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
627 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
629 The same issue occured with sort modes.
631 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
632 ===========================
639 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
640 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
642 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
644 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
646 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
647 ===========================
652 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
654 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
659 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
664 Use `env` to locate perl.
669 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
671 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
673 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
675 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
677 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
678 =========================
685 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
686 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
688 Limited support for S/MIME messages
690 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
691 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
692 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
697 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
698 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
699 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
701 Command Line Interface
702 ----------------------
704 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
706 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
711 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
716 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
718 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
719 parts are now included in replies.
721 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
722 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
723 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
724 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
726 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
728 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
730 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
732 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
733 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
734 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
735 forwards only the current message.
737 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
739 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
740 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
741 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
742 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
743 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
744 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
745 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
746 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
749 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
750 longer generate empty buffers
752 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
753 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
754 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
755 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
756 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
758 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
760 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
763 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
765 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
768 Address completion improvements
770 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
771 you previously configured one, customize the variable
772 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
773 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
774 interactive address completion.
776 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
778 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
779 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
780 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
785 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
786 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
787 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
793 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
794 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
795 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
796 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
797 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
798 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
800 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
801 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
802 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
803 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
804 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
805 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
807 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
808 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
810 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
811 =========================
816 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
819 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
821 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
822 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
823 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
825 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
826 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
828 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
829 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
830 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
832 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
834 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
835 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
836 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
837 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
838 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
839 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
844 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
845 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
848 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
851 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
853 Command Line Interface
854 ----------------------
856 Database revision tracking
858 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
859 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
860 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
861 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
863 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
865 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
866 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
867 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
868 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
869 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
870 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
871 manual page for further information.
876 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
878 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
879 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
881 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
883 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
884 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
885 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
887 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
889 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
891 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
892 customization as well.
894 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
896 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
898 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
900 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
902 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
903 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
904 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
905 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
907 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
909 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
910 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
911 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
912 this variable to 10000.
917 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
918 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
920 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
922 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
923 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
924 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
925 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
926 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
927 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
928 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
929 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
930 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
933 Database revision tracking
935 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
936 query parser and the new function
937 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
939 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
943 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
944 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
945 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
946 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
951 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
953 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
954 ===========================
959 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
961 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
962 ===========================
967 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
969 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
970 =========================
972 Command-Line Interface
973 ----------------------
975 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
977 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
978 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
979 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
981 Path to gpg is now configurable
983 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
984 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
989 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
991 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
996 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1001 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1006 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1008 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1009 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1011 New error logging facility
1013 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1014 output formerly printed to stderr.
1016 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1018 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1020 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1022 Fix for rounding of seconds
1027 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1029 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1030 docmumentation has been removed.
1032 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1034 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1035 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1040 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1041 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1042 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1047 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1048 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1049 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1050 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1051 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1052 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1055 git checkout config origin/config
1057 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1059 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1060 =========================
1065 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1066 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1067 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1068 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1069 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1070 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1071 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1073 Command-Line Interface
1074 ----------------------
1076 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1078 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1079 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1080 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1081 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1082 script callers should still check the return value.
1084 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1086 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1087 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1088 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1089 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1090 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1091 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1092 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1094 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1096 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1097 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1098 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1100 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1102 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1103 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1104 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1105 currently unmaintained.
1107 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1109 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1110 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1111 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1112 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1114 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1116 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1117 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1118 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1119 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1120 count of duplicate addresses.
1125 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1127 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1128 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1129 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1132 Improved handling of the unread tag
1134 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1135 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1136 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1137 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1138 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1139 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1140 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1142 Expanded default saved search settings
1144 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1145 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1147 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1149 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1150 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1151 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1153 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1155 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1156 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1157 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1158 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1159 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1160 the variable for details.
1165 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1167 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1168 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1169 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1170 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1172 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1174 Previously, library users were required to call
1175 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1176 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1177 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1178 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1179 too out of date for that API.
1181 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1183 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1184 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1185 atomic section will be aborted.
1187 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1188 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1190 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1192 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1193 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1194 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1195 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1196 messages into the same thread.
1201 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1202 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1203 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1204 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1205 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1206 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1211 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1212 from the config file. Use something like:
1216 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1217 "footer": "</body></html>",
1226 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1231 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1232 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1233 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1235 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1236 ===========================
1241 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1243 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1245 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1247 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1248 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1250 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1252 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1255 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1256 ===========================
1258 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1263 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1265 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1267 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1269 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1271 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1277 Use --quick when starting emacs
1279 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1281 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1283 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1285 Command-Line Interface
1286 ----------------------
1288 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1289 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1294 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1296 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1297 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1299 Fix for phrase indexing
1301 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1302 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1303 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1308 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1310 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1311 unintentionally removed.
1313 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1314 =========================
1319 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1320 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1321 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1322 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1323 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1324 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1325 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1326 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1327 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1333 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1335 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1336 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1337 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1338 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1339 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1340 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1341 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1342 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1344 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1346 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1347 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1348 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1349 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1352 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1354 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1355 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1356 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1357 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1358 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1359 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1360 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1365 Notmuch database upgrade
1367 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1368 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1369 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1370 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1371 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1372 released version of Notmuch before now.
1374 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1376 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1377 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1378 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1379 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1381 Message header parsing changes
1383 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1384 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1385 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1386 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1387 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1388 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1390 Command-Line Interface
1391 ----------------------
1393 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1395 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1397 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1399 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1401 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1403 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1404 user does not want it.
1406 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1408 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1409 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1410 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1411 support formatted output.
1413 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1415 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1416 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1417 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1425 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1426 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1427 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1428 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1429 `~/.emacs` with these.
1431 Changed format for saved searches
1433 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1434 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1435 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1436 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1439 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1440 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1441 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1442 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1444 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1445 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1446 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1448 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1449 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1450 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1451 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1452 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1454 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1456 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1457 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1458 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1460 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1462 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1463 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1464 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1465 message had been unread).
1467 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1468 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1469 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1470 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1472 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1473 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1474 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1476 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1477 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1478 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1479 to tags already present.
1483 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1484 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1485 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1486 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1487 these differ from each other.
1488 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1490 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1492 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1493 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1494 for these Emacs versions.
1496 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1498 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1499 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1501 Bug fixes for sender identities
1503 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1504 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1505 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1507 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1509 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1510 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1511 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1512 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1514 Reply pushes mark before signature
1516 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1517 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1518 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1520 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1522 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1523 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1529 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1530 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1532 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1533 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1534 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1535 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1537 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1538 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1539 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1540 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1541 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1543 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1545 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1546 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1548 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1549 =========================
1551 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1552 ---------------------------------------
1554 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1555 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1556 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1557 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1558 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1559 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1560 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1564 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1565 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1567 Command-Line Interface
1568 ----------------------
1570 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1572 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1573 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1574 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1575 print for each message.
1577 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1578 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1579 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1580 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1582 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1584 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1585 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1586 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1588 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1590 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1591 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1592 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1593 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1595 `notmuch compact` command
1597 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1598 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1599 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1600 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1601 move the compacted database into place.
1606 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1608 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1609 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1610 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1611 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1612 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1613 and multiple threads.
1615 Using `notmuch-tree`
1617 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1619 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1620 search, show and tree mode itself)
1622 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1625 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1626 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1628 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1630 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1631 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1632 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1633 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1634 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1635 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1636 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1638 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1640 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1641 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1642 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1643 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1644 thread when the search was performed.
1646 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1648 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1649 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1650 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1652 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1654 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1655 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1658 Built-in help improvements
1660 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1661 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1662 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1664 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1666 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1667 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1668 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1670 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1672 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1673 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1675 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1677 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1678 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1679 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1680 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1682 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1684 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1685 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1686 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1687 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1689 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1691 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1692 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1693 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1695 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1697 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1698 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1699 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1701 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1703 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1704 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1705 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1706 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1707 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1709 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1711 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1712 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1713 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1714 the body part of the message.
1719 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1720 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1721 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1723 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1724 =========================
1726 Command-Line Interface
1727 ----------------------
1729 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1731 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1732 folder and notmuch index.
1734 `notmuch count --batch` option
1736 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1737 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1739 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1741 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1742 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1743 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1746 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1748 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1749 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1750 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1751 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1752 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1755 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1757 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1758 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1760 Top level option to specify configuration file
1762 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1763 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1765 Bash command-line completion
1767 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1768 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1769 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1770 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1771 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1772 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1773 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1774 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1775 bash-completion package.
1777 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1782 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1784 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1785 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1786 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1787 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1788 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1789 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1790 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1791 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1793 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1795 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1796 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1797 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1799 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1801 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1802 previous thread in the search results.
1804 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1806 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1807 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1809 Faster search and show
1811 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1812 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1813 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1814 threads should show faster.
1818 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1819 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1820 in question was now removed from this release.
1825 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1826 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1831 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1833 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1834 ===========================
1839 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1841 Internal test framework changes
1842 -------------------------------
1844 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1845 being unimplemented.
1847 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1848 ===========================
1850 Internal test framework changes
1851 -------------------------------
1853 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1854 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1856 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1857 =========================
1862 Date range search support
1864 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1865 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1866 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1867 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1868 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1871 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1873 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1874 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1875 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1876 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1877 but may be removed in a future release.
1879 Command-Line Interface
1880 ----------------------
1882 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1884 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1885 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1887 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1889 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1890 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1891 officially deprecated.
1893 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1895 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1896 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1897 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1899 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1901 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1902 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1905 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1906 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1907 dump/restore format.
1909 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1911 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1912 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1913 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1915 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1917 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1918 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1919 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1921 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1923 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1924 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1925 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1926 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1931 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1933 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1934 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1935 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1936 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1938 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1940 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1941 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1942 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1943 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1944 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1945 the behavior of this, see
1946 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1947 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1949 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1950 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1951 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1953 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1955 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1956 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1959 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1961 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1962 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1963 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1964 simply displayed in place of the message.
1966 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1968 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1969 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1971 Improved text/calendar content handling
1973 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1974 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1975 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1976 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1978 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1980 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1981 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1982 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1983 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1985 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1987 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1988 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1989 for HTML email containing images.
1991 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1993 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1995 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1997 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2000 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2002 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2003 the point where it was.
2005 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2007 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2008 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2009 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2010 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2011 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2013 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2015 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2016 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2017 thread instead of the message id.
2019 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2020 -----------------------------
2022 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2023 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2024 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2025 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2026 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2027 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2028 further details and installation.
2033 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2035 Internal test framework changes
2036 -------------------------------
2038 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2040 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2041 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2042 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2043 can result in buggy behavior.
2045 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2046 =========================
2051 Maildir tag synchronization
2053 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2054 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2055 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2056 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2057 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2058 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2061 Command-Line Interface
2062 ----------------------
2064 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2065 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2066 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2067 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2068 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2074 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2076 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2078 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2079 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2080 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2082 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2084 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2085 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2086 span multiple lines.
2088 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2090 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2091 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2092 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2093 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2094 inside the result or message.
2096 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2098 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2099 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2101 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2102 user-specified formatting
2104 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2105 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2106 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2107 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2108 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2110 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2111 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2113 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2114 ===========================
2119 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2120 compilation error for this contrib package.
2122 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2123 ===========================
2128 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2130 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2131 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2132 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2133 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2135 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2136 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2139 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2140 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2141 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2142 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2145 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2147 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2150 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2151 =========================
2153 Command-Line Interface
2154 ----------------------
2158 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2159 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2160 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2161 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2163 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2164 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2165 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2166 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2170 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2171 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2173 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2174 tag in your query, for example:
2176 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2178 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2179 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2181 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2182 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2184 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2186 Raw show format changes
2188 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2189 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2190 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2191 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2192 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2193 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2194 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2195 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2197 Listing configuration items
2199 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2205 Changes to tagging interface
2207 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2208 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2209 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2210 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2211 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2212 for more information.
2214 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2215 may need to update in custom configurations.
2217 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2219 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2220 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2221 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2222 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2225 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2226 -----------------------------
2228 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2229 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2230 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2231 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2232 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2233 contrib/ from now on.
2238 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2239 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2241 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2242 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2244 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2245 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2246 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2248 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2249 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2251 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2252 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2253 returning the new database object or directory object.
2260 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2261 compatible with go 1.
2263 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2264 =========================
2266 Command-Line Interface
2267 ----------------------
2271 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2272 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2273 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2274 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2276 Mail store folder/file ignore
2278 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2279 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2280 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2282 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2283 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2285 Unified help and manual pages
2287 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2288 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2291 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2293 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2294 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2302 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2303 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2304 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2305 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2307 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2309 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2310 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2312 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2315 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2316 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2317 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2319 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2321 should be changed to:
2323 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2325 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2327 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2328 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2330 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2332 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2333 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2334 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2335 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2336 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2337 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2341 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2342 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2343 of Mailing List Archives.
2345 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2347 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2348 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2351 Show view archiving key binding changes
2353 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2354 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2355 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2356 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2357 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2360 Support text/calendar MIME type
2362 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2365 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2367 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2368 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2369 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2370 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2372 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2374 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2375 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2376 messages blue by default in the search view.
2380 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2381 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2388 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2391 Python bindings changes
2392 -----------------------
2394 Python 3.2 compatibility
2396 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2398 Added missing unicode conversions
2400 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2401 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2402 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2407 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2409 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2410 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2411 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2412 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2413 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2415 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2416 ===========================
2421 Fix error handling in python bindings
2423 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2424 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2425 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2426 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2428 Quote MML tags in replies
2430 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2431 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2432 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2433 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2434 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2435 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2436 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2437 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2439 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2440 =========================
2442 Command-Line Interface
2443 ----------------------
2447 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2448 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2449 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2450 importing new messages into the database.
2452 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2454 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2455 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2456 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2461 Automatic tag query optimization
2463 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2464 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2465 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2467 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2469 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2470 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2471 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2476 Reduction of memory leaks
2478 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2479 and fixed in this release.
2486 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2487 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2488 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2491 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2493 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2494 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2495 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2498 Improvements in saved search management
2500 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2501 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2502 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2504 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2506 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2507 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2508 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2510 New face for crypto parts headers
2512 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2513 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2514 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2517 Use space as default thousands separator
2519 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2520 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2521 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2523 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2524 buttonized id: links
2526 New function notmuch-show-advance
2528 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2529 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2530 be bound to SPC with:
2532 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2534 Various performance improvements
2539 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2540 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2543 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2544 ===========================
2549 Fix crash in python bindings
2551 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2552 for some, but not all users.
2554 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2555 ===========================
2560 Fix `--help` argument
2562 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2563 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2564 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2566 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2567 =========================
2569 New build and testing features
2570 ------------------------------
2572 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2573 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2574 prerequisites is improved.
2576 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2578 New command-line features
2579 -------------------------
2581 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2583 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2584 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2587 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2589 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2590 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2591 favour of using stdout.
2593 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2595 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2596 limit the number of results shown.
2598 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2600 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2601 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2604 New emacs UI features
2605 ---------------------
2607 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2609 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2610 starting with "tag:".
2612 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2614 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2615 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2617 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2619 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2621 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2623 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2624 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2629 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2631 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2633 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2634 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2635 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2636 requires a database rebuild:
2638 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2639 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2641 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2643 New collection of add-on tools
2644 ------------------------------
2646 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2647 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2648 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2651 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2653 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2654 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2655 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2657 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2658 ========================
2660 New, general features
2661 ---------------------
2663 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2665 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2666 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2667 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2668 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2669 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2676 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2677 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2679 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2683 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2684 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2685 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2688 Python bindings changes
2689 -----------------------
2691 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2693 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2694 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2695 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2696 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2697 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2698 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2700 Ruby bindings changes
2701 ---------------------
2703 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2704 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2705 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2706 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2711 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2713 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2714 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2716 Reply formatting cleanup
2717 ------------------------
2719 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2720 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2722 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2723 ========================
2725 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2727 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2728 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2729 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2730 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2733 Improved Build system portability
2735 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2736 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2737 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2739 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2741 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2743 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2745 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2746 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2747 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2749 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2750 ========================
2752 Vim interface improvements
2753 --------------------------
2755 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2757 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2758 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2759 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2760 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2761 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2763 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2765 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2766 * fix compose temp file name
2768 Python Bindings changes
2769 -----------------------
2771 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2773 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2774 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2776 Build-System improvements
2777 -------------------------
2779 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2781 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2784 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2785 ==========================
2790 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2792 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2793 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2795 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2796 =======================
2798 New, general features
2799 ---------------------
2801 Folder-based searching
2803 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2804 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2805 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2809 For example, one might use things such as:
2815 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2816 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2818 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2819 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2820 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2821 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2823 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2824 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2825 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2828 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2829 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2831 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2833 Support for PGP/MIME
2835 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2836 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2837 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2839 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2841 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2842 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2844 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2845 notmuch will receive these tags.
2847 New command-line features
2848 -------------------------
2850 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2852 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2853 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2855 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2857 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2858 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2859 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2861 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2863 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2864 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2865 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2866 which parts a signature part applies).
2868 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2870 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2871 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2872 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2873 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2874 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2877 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2879 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2880 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2881 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2882 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2883 by translating it internally to the new call.
2885 Performance improvements
2886 ------------------------
2888 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2890 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2891 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2892 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2894 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2895 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2897 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2899 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2900 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2901 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2903 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2904 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2905 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2906 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2908 Faster initial indexing
2910 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2911 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2912 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2914 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2916 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2917 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2918 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2919 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2921 New emacs-interface features
2922 ----------------------------
2924 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2926 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2927 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2928 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2929 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2930 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2931 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2933 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2935 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2936 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2937 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2938 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2940 User-selectable From address
2942 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2943 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2944 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2945 will prompt for the from address to use.
2947 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2948 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2949 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2951 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2952 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2953 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2956 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2958 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2959 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2961 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2963 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2965 ----- Original Message -----
2967 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2968 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2969 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2970 citations work much like conventional citations.
2972 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2974 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2975 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2976 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2977 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2978 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2980 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2981 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2983 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2985 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2986 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2987 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2989 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2991 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2992 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2993 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2994 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2995 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2997 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2999 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3002 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3004 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3006 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3008 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3011 Vim interface improvements
3012 --------------------------
3014 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3016 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3017 * Implementing archive in show view
3018 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3019 * Add delete commands
3022 Bindings improvements
3023 ---------------------
3025 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3027 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3028 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3030 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3032 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3036 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3037 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3038 `list(Messages)` works now
3039 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3041 These allow, for example:
3043 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3045 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3047 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3053 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3055 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3058 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3060 New build-system features
3061 -------------------------
3063 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3065 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3066 the configure script from some other directory:
3073 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3075 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3076 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3077 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3078 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3079 manual invocation of configure.
3081 New test-suite feature
3082 ----------------------
3084 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3086 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3087 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3088 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3089 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3090 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3093 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3095 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3096 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3097 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3098 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3099 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3100 are updated to take advantage of this.
3102 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3104 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3105 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3106 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3107 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3113 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3115 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3116 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3117 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3119 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3121 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3123 to:user@elsewhere.com
3125 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3127 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3129 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3131 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3132 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3133 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3136 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3137 from the Received headers in some cases
3139 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3140 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3142 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3144 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3146 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3148 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3149 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3150 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3152 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3153 -------------------------
3155 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3157 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3158 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3159 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3161 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3163 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3164 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3165 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3168 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3170 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3171 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3172 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3173 fixed to avoid this bug.
3175 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3177 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3178 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3180 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3181 ========================
3183 New, general features
3184 ---------------------
3186 Maildir-flag synchronization
3188 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3189 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3198 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3200 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3201 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3202 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3203 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3205 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3206 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3207 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3208 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3211 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3213 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3214 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3215 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3217 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3218 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3220 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3221 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3223 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3224 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3225 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3227 New library features
3228 --------------------
3230 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3232 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3233 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3234 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3235 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3237 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3238 message with the new function:
3240 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3242 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3243 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3244 over all available filenames for a given message.
3246 New command-line features
3247 -------------------------
3249 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3251 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3252 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3253 access to the mail store itself.
3255 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3256 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3257 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3258 name of a script containing:
3260 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3262 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3263 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3269 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3271 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3273 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3275 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3276 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3277 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3278 now produces nothing).
3280 Emacs interface improvements
3281 ----------------------------
3283 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3285 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3287 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3289 Display current thread subject in a header line
3291 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3293 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3295 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3296 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3297 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3298 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3299 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3300 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3301 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3303 Vim interface improvements
3304 --------------------------
3306 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3308 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3309 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3315 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3317 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3318 ========================
3320 New command-line features
3321 -------------------------
3323 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3325 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3326 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3327 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3329 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3330 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3331 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3332 scripts. For example:
3334 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3335 <operations-on> "$file"
3338 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3340 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3341 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3342 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3343 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3344 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3345 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3347 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3349 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3350 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3351 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3352 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3354 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3356 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3357 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3358 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3359 default rather than Bcc.
3361 New library features
3362 --------------------
3364 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3366 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3367 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3372 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3374 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3375 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3376 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3377 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3378 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3379 notmuch customize interface.
3381 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3383 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3384 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3385 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3386 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3388 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3390 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3391 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3392 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3393 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3395 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3397 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3398 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3399 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3400 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3401 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3402 notmuch customize interface.
3404 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3406 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3407 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3408 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3409 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3410 notmuch customize interface.
3412 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3414 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3415 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3416 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3417 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3420 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3422 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3423 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3424 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3427 New build-system features
3428 -------------------------
3430 Various portability fixes have been applied
3432 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3433 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3434 more portable than ever before.
3436 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3438 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3439 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3440 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3442 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3443 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3444 automatically run ldconfig.
3446 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3447 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3448 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3450 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3451 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3452 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3453 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3455 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3457 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3458 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3459 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3460 used in the resulting Makefile.
3462 New test-suite features
3463 -----------------------
3465 New modularization of test suite
3467 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3468 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3469 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3470 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3471 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3472 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3473 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3474 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3476 New testing of emacs interface
3478 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3479 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3480 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3481 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3482 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3483 database via the FCC setting.
3488 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3490 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3491 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3492 persistent error of the form:
3494 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3496 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3497 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3499 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3501 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3502 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3503 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3505 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3507 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3508 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3509 parsing the notmuch results).
3511 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3513 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3516 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3517 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3518 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3523 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3525 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3526 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3527 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3528 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3529 the emacs interface.
3531 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3533 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3534 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3535 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3537 Python-binding fixes
3538 --------------------
3540 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3542 Debian-specific fixes
3543 ---------------------
3545 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3547 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3548 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3549 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3552 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3553 ==========================
3558 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3560 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3561 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3562 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3563 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3565 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3567 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3568 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3569 want notmuch to crash.
3574 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3576 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3577 directory does not exist
3582 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3584 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3585 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3587 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3588 ========================
3590 New command-line features
3591 -------------------------
3593 User-configurable tags for new messages
3595 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3596 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3597 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3598 to specify this value.
3600 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3602 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3603 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3604 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3606 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3608 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3609 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3611 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3613 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3614 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3615 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3616 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3617 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3620 Indication of author names that match a search
3622 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3623 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3624 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3625 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3626 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3627 messages in the thread are listed first.
3629 New: Python bindings
3630 --------------------
3632 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3633 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3634 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3635 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3637 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3638 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3639 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3642 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3643 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3644 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3646 Emacs interface improvements
3647 ----------------------------
3649 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3651 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3652 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3653 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3654 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3655 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3656 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3657 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3658 but without any of the disadvantages).
3660 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3661 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3662 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3665 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3666 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3667 instead running something like:
3669 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3671 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3672 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3673 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3676 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3678 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3679 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3680 tweaked by the user.
3682 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3683 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3684 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3687 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3688 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3689 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3692 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3694 This support currently relies on an external program,
3695 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3696 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3697 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3698 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3699 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3702 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3703 notmuch) is available via:
3705 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3707 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3708 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3709 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3711 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3713 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3714 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3715 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3716 making this automatic in a future release.
3718 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3720 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3721 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3722 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3723 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3724 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3725 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3728 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3730 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3731 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3732 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3734 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3736 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3737 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3738 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3740 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3741 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3742 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3743 other representation.
3745 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3746 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3749 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3751 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3752 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3753 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3755 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3756 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3757 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3759 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3761 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3762 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3763 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3764 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3765 to display the search result.
3767 More flexible handling of header visibility
3769 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3770 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3771 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3772 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3773 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3774 with the 'h' keybinding.
3776 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3777 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3778 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3780 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3782 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3784 Customizable formatting of search results
3786 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3787 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3788 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3790 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3792 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3794 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3799 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3801 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3802 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3803 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3804 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3810 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3812 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3813 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3815 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3817 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3818 accept are now all accepted.
3823 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3825 Better display of output from failed tests
3827 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3828 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3830 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3831 ========================
3833 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3834 detailed release notes this time!
3836 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3837 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3839 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3840 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3841 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3842 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3849 Better guessing of From: header
3851 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3852 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3853 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3854 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3855 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3858 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3860 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3861 guaranteed to match all messages.
3863 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3865 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3866 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3867 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3868 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3869 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3872 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3875 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3876 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3877 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3878 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3883 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3885 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3886 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3887 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3888 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3890 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3892 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3894 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3895 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3896 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3898 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3900 Previously, the user might see:
3902 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3906 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3908 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3909 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3910 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3911 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3913 Emacs client features
3914 ---------------------
3916 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3918 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3919 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3920 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3921 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3922 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3924 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3927 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3928 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3929 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3930 search with the '*' binding.
3932 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3934 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3935 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3938 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3940 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3941 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3942 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3944 Build-system features
3945 ---------------------
3947 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3949 Add support to configure for many standard options
3951 We include actual support for:
3953 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3955 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3957 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3958 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3960 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3961 separate "make install-emacs"
3963 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3965 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3966 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3967 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3969 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3972 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3973 ========================
3975 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3977 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3978 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3980 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3981 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3982 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3983 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3984 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3985 tags from messages in a thread.
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