1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
9 Support for single argument date: queries
11 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
13 Support for blocking opens
15 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
16 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
18 Support for named queries
20 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
21 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
22 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
27 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
29 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
34 Support for compile time options
36 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
37 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
40 Dump/Restore support for configuration information
42 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
43 named queries) is dumped and restored. Any new information in the
44 dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing scripts to ignore
50 Face customization is easier
52 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
53 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
54 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
55 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
57 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
62 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
67 Go bindings moved to contrib
69 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
71 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore.
73 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
74 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
76 The same issue occured with sort modes.
78 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
79 ===========================
86 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
87 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
89 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
91 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
93 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
94 ===========================
99 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
101 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
106 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
111 Use `env` to locate perl.
116 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
118 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
120 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
122 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
124 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
125 =========================
132 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
133 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
135 Limited support for S/MIME messages
137 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
138 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
139 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
144 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
145 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
146 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
148 Command Line Interface
149 ----------------------
151 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
153 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
158 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
163 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
165 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
166 parts are now included in replies.
168 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
169 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
170 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
171 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
173 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
175 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
177 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
179 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
180 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
181 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
182 forwards only the current message.
184 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
186 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
187 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
188 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
189 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
190 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
191 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
192 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
193 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
196 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
197 longer generate empty buffers
199 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
200 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
201 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
202 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
203 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
205 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
207 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
210 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
212 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
215 Address completion improvements
217 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
218 you previously configured one, customize the variable
219 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
220 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
221 interactive address completion.
223 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
225 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
226 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
227 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
232 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
233 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
234 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
240 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
241 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
242 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
243 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
244 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
245 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
247 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
248 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
249 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
250 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
251 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
252 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
254 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
255 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
257 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
258 =========================
263 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
266 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
268 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
269 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
270 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
272 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
273 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
275 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
276 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
277 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
279 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
281 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
282 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
283 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
284 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
285 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
286 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
291 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
292 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
295 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
298 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
300 Command Line Interface
301 ----------------------
303 Database revision tracking
305 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
306 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
307 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
308 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
310 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
312 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
313 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
314 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
315 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
316 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
317 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
318 manual page for further information.
323 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
325 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
326 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
328 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
330 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
331 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
332 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
334 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
336 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
338 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
339 customization as well.
341 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
343 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
345 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
347 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
349 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
350 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
351 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
352 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
354 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
356 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
357 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
358 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
359 this variable to 10000.
364 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
365 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
367 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
369 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
370 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
371 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
372 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
373 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
374 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
375 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
376 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
377 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
380 Database revision tracking
382 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
383 query parser and the new function
384 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
386 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
390 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
391 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
392 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
393 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
398 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
400 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
401 ===========================
406 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
408 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
409 ===========================
414 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
416 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
417 =========================
419 Command-Line Interface
420 ----------------------
422 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
424 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
425 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
426 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
428 Path to gpg is now configurable
430 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
431 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
436 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
438 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
443 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
448 Support messages without Message-IDs.
453 Undeprecate single message mboxes
455 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
456 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
458 New error logging facility
460 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
461 output formerly printed to stderr.
463 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
465 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
467 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
469 Fix for rounding of seconds
474 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
476 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
477 docmumentation has been removed.
479 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
481 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
482 some material from the relicensed wiki.
487 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
488 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
489 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
494 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
495 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
496 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
497 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
498 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
499 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
502 git checkout config origin/config
504 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
506 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
507 =========================
512 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
513 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
514 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
515 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
516 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
517 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
518 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
520 Command-Line Interface
521 ----------------------
523 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
525 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
526 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
527 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
528 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
529 script callers should still check the return value.
531 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
533 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
534 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
535 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
536 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
537 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
538 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
539 and returning success even if indexing fails).
541 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
543 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
544 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
545 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
547 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
549 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
550 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
551 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
552 currently unmaintained.
554 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
556 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
557 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
558 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
559 have at least `N` files associated with them.
561 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
563 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
564 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
565 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
566 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
567 count of duplicate addresses.
572 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
574 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
575 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
576 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
579 Improved handling of the unread tag
581 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
582 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
583 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
584 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
585 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
586 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
587 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
589 Expanded default saved search settings
591 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
592 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
594 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
596 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
597 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
598 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
600 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
602 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
603 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
604 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
605 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
606 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
607 the variable for details.
612 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
614 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
615 Representing these independently of the database version number will
616 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
617 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
619 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
621 Previously, library users were required to call
622 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
623 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
624 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
625 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
626 too out of date for that API.
628 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
630 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
631 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
632 atomic section will be aborted.
634 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
635 `notmuch_database_destroy`
637 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
639 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
640 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
641 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
642 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
643 messages into the same thread.
648 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
649 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
650 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
651 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
652 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
653 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
658 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
659 from the config file. Use something like:
663 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
664 "footer": "</body></html>",
673 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
678 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
679 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
680 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
682 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
683 ===========================
688 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
690 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
692 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
694 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
695 structure for signatures changed slightly.
697 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
699 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
702 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
703 ===========================
705 This is a bug fix and portability release.
710 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
712 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
714 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
716 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
718 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
724 Use --quick when starting emacs
726 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
728 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
730 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
732 Command-Line Interface
733 ----------------------
735 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
736 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
741 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
743 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
744 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
746 Fix for phrase indexing
748 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
749 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
750 will affect only newly indexed messages.
755 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
757 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
758 unintentionally removed.
760 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
761 =========================
766 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
767 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
768 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
769 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
770 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
771 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
772 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
773 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
774 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
780 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
782 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
783 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
784 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
785 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
786 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
787 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
788 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
789 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
791 There is a new `path:` search prefix
793 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
794 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
795 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
796 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
799 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
801 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
802 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
803 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
804 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
805 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
806 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
807 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
812 Notmuch database upgrade
814 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
815 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
816 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
817 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
818 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
819 released version of Notmuch before now.
821 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
823 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
824 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
825 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
826 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
828 Message header parsing changes
830 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
831 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
832 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
833 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
834 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
835 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
837 Command-Line Interface
838 ----------------------
840 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
842 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
844 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
846 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
848 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
850 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
851 user does not want it.
853 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
855 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
856 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
857 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
858 support formatted output.
860 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
862 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
863 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
864 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
872 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
873 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
874 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
875 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
876 `~/.emacs` with these.
878 Changed format for saved searches
880 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
881 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
882 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
883 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
886 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
887 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
888 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
889 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
891 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
892 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
893 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
895 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
896 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
897 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
898 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
899 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
901 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
903 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
904 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
905 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
907 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
909 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
910 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
911 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
912 message had been unread).
914 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
915 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
916 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
917 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
919 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
920 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
921 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
923 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
924 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
925 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
926 to tags already present.
930 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
931 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
932 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
933 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
934 these differ from each other.
935 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
937 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
939 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
940 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
941 for these Emacs versions.
943 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
945 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
946 newlines before calling notmuch count.
948 Bug fixes for sender identities
950 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
951 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
952 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
954 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
956 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
957 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
958 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
959 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
961 Reply pushes mark before signature
963 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
964 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
965 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
967 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
969 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
970 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
976 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
977 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
979 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
980 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
981 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
982 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
984 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
985 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
986 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
987 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
988 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
990 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
992 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
993 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
995 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
996 =========================
998 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
999 ---------------------------------------
1001 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1002 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1003 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1004 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1005 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1006 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1007 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1011 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1012 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1014 Command-Line Interface
1015 ----------------------
1017 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1019 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1020 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1021 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1022 print for each message.
1024 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1025 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1026 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1027 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1029 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1031 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1032 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1033 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1035 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1037 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1038 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1039 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1040 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1042 `notmuch compact` command
1044 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1045 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1046 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1047 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1048 move the compacted database into place.
1053 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1055 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1056 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1057 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1058 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1059 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1060 and multiple threads.
1062 Using `notmuch-tree`
1064 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1066 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1067 search, show and tree mode itself)
1069 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1072 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1073 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1075 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1077 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1078 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1079 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1080 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1081 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1082 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1083 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1085 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1087 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1088 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1089 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1090 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1091 thread when the search was performed.
1093 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1095 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1096 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1097 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1099 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1101 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1102 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1105 Built-in help improvements
1107 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1108 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1109 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1111 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1113 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1114 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1115 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1117 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1119 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1120 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1122 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1124 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1125 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1126 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1127 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1129 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1131 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1132 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1133 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1134 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1136 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1138 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1139 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1140 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1142 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1144 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1145 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1146 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1148 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1150 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1151 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1152 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1153 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1154 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1156 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1158 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1159 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1160 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1161 the body part of the message.
1166 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1167 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1168 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1170 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1171 =========================
1173 Command-Line Interface
1174 ----------------------
1176 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1178 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1179 folder and notmuch index.
1181 `notmuch count --batch` option
1183 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1184 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1186 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1188 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1189 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1190 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1193 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1195 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1196 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1197 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1198 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1199 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1202 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1204 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1205 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1207 Top level option to specify configuration file
1209 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1210 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1212 Bash command-line completion
1214 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1215 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1216 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1217 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1218 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1219 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1220 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1221 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1222 bash-completion package.
1224 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1229 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1231 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1232 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1233 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1234 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1235 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1236 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1237 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1238 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1240 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1242 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1243 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1244 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1246 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1248 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1249 previous thread in the search results.
1251 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1253 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1254 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1256 Faster search and show
1258 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1259 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1260 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1261 threads should show faster.
1265 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1266 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1267 in question was now removed from this release.
1272 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1273 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1278 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1280 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1281 ===========================
1286 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1288 Internal test framework changes
1289 -------------------------------
1291 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1292 being unimplemented.
1294 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1295 ===========================
1297 Internal test framework changes
1298 -------------------------------
1300 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1301 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1303 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1304 =========================
1309 Date range search support
1311 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1312 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1313 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1314 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1315 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1318 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1320 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1321 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1322 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1323 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1324 but may be removed in a future release.
1326 Command-Line Interface
1327 ----------------------
1329 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1331 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1332 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1334 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1336 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1337 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1338 officially deprecated.
1340 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1342 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1343 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1344 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1346 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1348 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1349 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1352 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1353 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1354 dump/restore format.
1356 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1358 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1359 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1360 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1362 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1364 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1365 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1366 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1368 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1370 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1371 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1372 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1373 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1378 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1380 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1381 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1382 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1383 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1385 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1387 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1388 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1389 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1390 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1391 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1392 the behavior of this, see
1393 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1394 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1396 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1397 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1398 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1400 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1402 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1403 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1406 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1408 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1409 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1410 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1411 simply displayed in place of the message.
1413 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1415 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1416 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1418 Improved text/calendar content handling
1420 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1421 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1422 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1423 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1425 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1427 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1428 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1429 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1430 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1432 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1434 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1435 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1436 for HTML email containing images.
1438 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1440 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1442 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1444 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1447 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1449 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1450 the point where it was.
1452 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1454 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1455 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1456 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1457 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1458 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1460 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1462 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1463 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1464 thread instead of the message id.
1466 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1467 -----------------------------
1469 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1470 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1471 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1472 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1473 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1474 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1475 further details and installation.
1480 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1482 Internal test framework changes
1483 -------------------------------
1485 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1487 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1488 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1489 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1490 can result in buggy behavior.
1492 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1493 =========================
1498 Maildir tag synchronization
1500 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1501 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1502 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1503 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1504 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1505 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1508 Command-Line Interface
1509 ----------------------
1511 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1512 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1513 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1514 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1515 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1521 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1523 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1525 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1526 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1527 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1529 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1531 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1532 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1533 span multiple lines.
1535 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1537 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1538 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1539 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1540 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1541 inside the result or message.
1543 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1545 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1546 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1548 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1549 user-specified formatting
1551 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1552 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1553 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1554 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1555 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1557 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1558 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1560 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1561 ===========================
1566 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1567 compilation error for this contrib package.
1569 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1570 ===========================
1575 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1577 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1578 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1579 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1580 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1582 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1583 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1586 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1587 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1588 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1589 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1592 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1594 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1597 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1598 =========================
1600 Command-Line Interface
1601 ----------------------
1605 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1606 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1607 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1608 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1610 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1611 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1612 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1613 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1617 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1618 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1620 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1621 tag in your query, for example:
1623 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1625 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1626 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1628 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1629 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1631 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1633 Raw show format changes
1635 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1636 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1637 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1638 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1639 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1640 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1641 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1642 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1644 Listing configuration items
1646 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1652 Changes to tagging interface
1654 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1655 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1656 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1657 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1658 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1659 for more information.
1661 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1662 may need to update in custom configurations.
1664 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1666 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1667 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1668 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1669 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1672 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1673 -----------------------------
1675 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1676 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1677 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1678 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1679 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1680 contrib/ from now on.
1685 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1686 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1688 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1689 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1691 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1692 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1693 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1695 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1696 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1698 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1699 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1700 returning the new database object or directory object.
1707 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1708 compatible with go 1.
1710 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1711 =========================
1713 Command-Line Interface
1714 ----------------------
1718 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1719 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1720 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1721 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1723 Mail store folder/file ignore
1725 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1726 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1727 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1729 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1730 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1732 Unified help and manual pages
1734 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1735 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1738 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1740 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1741 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1749 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1750 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1751 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1752 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1754 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1756 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1757 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1759 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1762 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1763 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1764 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1766 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1768 should be changed to:
1770 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1772 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1774 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1775 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1777 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1779 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1780 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1781 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1782 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1783 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1784 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1788 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1789 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1790 of Mailing List Archives.
1792 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1794 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1795 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1798 Show view archiving key binding changes
1800 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1801 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1802 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1803 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1804 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1807 Support text/calendar MIME type
1809 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1812 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1814 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1815 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1816 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1817 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1819 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1821 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1822 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1823 messages blue by default in the search view.
1827 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1828 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1835 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1838 Python bindings changes
1839 -----------------------
1841 Python 3.2 compatibility
1843 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1845 Added missing unicode conversions
1847 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1848 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1849 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1854 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1856 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1857 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1858 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1859 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1860 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1862 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1863 ===========================
1868 Fix error handling in python bindings
1870 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1871 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1872 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1873 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1875 Quote MML tags in replies
1877 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1878 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1879 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1880 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1881 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1882 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1883 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1884 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1886 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1887 =========================
1889 Command-Line Interface
1890 ----------------------
1894 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1895 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1896 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1897 importing new messages into the database.
1899 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1901 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1902 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1903 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1908 Automatic tag query optimization
1910 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1911 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1912 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1914 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1916 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1917 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1918 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1923 Reduction of memory leaks
1925 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1926 and fixed in this release.
1933 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1934 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1935 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1938 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1940 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1941 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1942 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1945 Improvements in saved search management
1947 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1948 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1949 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1951 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1953 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1954 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1955 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1957 New face for crypto parts headers
1959 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1960 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1961 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1964 Use space as default thousands separator
1966 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1967 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1968 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1970 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1971 buttonized id: links
1973 New function notmuch-show-advance
1975 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1976 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1977 be bound to SPC with:
1979 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1981 Various performance improvements
1986 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1987 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1990 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1991 ===========================
1996 Fix crash in python bindings
1998 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1999 for some, but not all users.
2001 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2002 ===========================
2007 Fix `--help` argument
2009 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2010 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2011 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2013 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2014 =========================
2016 New build and testing features
2017 ------------------------------
2019 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2020 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2021 prerequisites is improved.
2023 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2025 New command-line features
2026 -------------------------
2028 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2030 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2031 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2034 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2036 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2037 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2038 favour of using stdout.
2040 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2042 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2043 limit the number of results shown.
2045 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2047 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2048 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2051 New emacs UI features
2052 ---------------------
2054 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2056 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2057 starting with "tag:".
2059 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2061 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2062 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2064 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2066 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2068 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2070 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2071 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2076 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2078 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2080 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2081 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2082 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2083 requires a database rebuild:
2085 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2086 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2088 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2090 New collection of add-on tools
2091 ------------------------------
2093 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2094 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2095 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2098 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2100 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2101 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2102 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2104 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2105 ========================
2107 New, general features
2108 ---------------------
2110 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2112 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2113 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2114 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2115 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2116 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2123 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2124 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2126 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2130 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2131 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2132 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2135 Python bindings changes
2136 -----------------------
2138 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2140 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2141 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2142 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2143 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2144 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2145 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2147 Ruby bindings changes
2148 ---------------------
2150 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2151 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2152 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2153 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2158 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2160 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2161 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2163 Reply formatting cleanup
2164 ------------------------
2166 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2167 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2169 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2170 ========================
2172 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2174 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2175 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2176 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2177 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2180 Improved Build system portability
2182 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2183 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2184 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2186 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2188 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2190 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2192 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2193 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2194 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2196 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2197 ========================
2199 Vim interface improvements
2200 --------------------------
2202 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2204 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2205 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2206 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2207 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2208 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2210 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2212 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2213 * fix compose temp file name
2215 Python Bindings changes
2216 -----------------------
2218 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2220 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2221 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2223 Build-System improvements
2224 -------------------------
2226 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2228 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2231 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2232 ==========================
2237 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2239 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2240 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2242 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2243 =======================
2245 New, general features
2246 ---------------------
2248 Folder-based searching
2250 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2251 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2252 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2256 For example, one might use things such as:
2262 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2263 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2265 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2266 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2267 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2268 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2270 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2271 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2272 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2275 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2276 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2278 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2280 Support for PGP/MIME
2282 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2283 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2284 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2286 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2288 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2289 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2291 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2292 notmuch will receive these tags.
2294 New command-line features
2295 -------------------------
2297 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2299 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2300 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2302 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2304 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2305 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2306 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2308 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2310 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2311 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2312 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2313 which parts a signature part applies).
2315 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2317 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2318 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2319 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2320 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2321 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2324 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2326 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2327 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2328 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2329 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2330 by translating it internally to the new call.
2332 Performance improvements
2333 ------------------------
2335 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2337 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2338 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2339 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2341 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2342 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2344 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2346 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2347 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2348 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2350 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2351 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2352 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2353 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2355 Faster initial indexing
2357 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2358 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2359 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2361 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2363 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2364 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2365 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2366 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2368 New emacs-interface features
2369 ----------------------------
2371 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2373 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2374 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2375 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2376 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2377 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2378 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2380 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2382 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2383 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2384 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2385 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2387 User-selectable From address
2389 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2390 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2391 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2392 will prompt for the from address to use.
2394 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2395 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2396 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2398 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2399 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2400 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2403 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2405 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2406 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2408 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2410 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2412 ----- Original Message -----
2414 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2415 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2416 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2417 citations work much like conventional citations.
2419 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2421 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2422 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2423 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2424 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2425 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2427 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2428 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2430 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2432 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2433 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2434 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2436 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2438 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2439 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2440 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2441 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2442 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2444 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2446 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2449 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2451 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2453 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2455 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2458 Vim interface improvements
2459 --------------------------
2461 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2463 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2464 * Implementing archive in show view
2465 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2466 * Add delete commands
2469 Bindings improvements
2470 ---------------------
2472 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2474 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2475 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2477 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2479 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2483 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2484 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2485 `list(Messages)` works now
2486 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2488 These allow, for example:
2490 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2492 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2494 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2500 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2502 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2505 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2507 New build-system features
2508 -------------------------
2510 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2512 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2513 the configure script from some other directory:
2520 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2522 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2523 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2524 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2525 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2526 manual invocation of configure.
2528 New test-suite feature
2529 ----------------------
2531 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2533 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2534 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2535 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2536 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2537 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2540 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2542 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2543 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2544 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2545 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2546 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2547 are updated to take advantage of this.
2549 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2551 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2552 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2553 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2554 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2560 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2562 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2563 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2564 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2566 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2568 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2570 to:user@elsewhere.com
2572 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2574 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2576 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2578 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2579 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2580 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2583 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2584 from the Received headers in some cases
2586 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2587 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2589 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2591 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2593 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2595 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2596 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2597 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2599 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2600 -------------------------
2602 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2604 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2605 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2606 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2608 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2610 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2611 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2612 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2615 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2617 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2618 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2619 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2620 fixed to avoid this bug.
2622 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2624 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2625 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2627 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2628 ========================
2630 New, general features
2631 ---------------------
2633 Maildir-flag synchronization
2635 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2636 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2645 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2647 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2648 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2649 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2650 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2652 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2653 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2654 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2655 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2658 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2660 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2661 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2662 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2664 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2665 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2667 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2668 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2670 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2671 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2672 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2674 New library features
2675 --------------------
2677 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2679 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2680 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2681 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2682 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2684 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2685 message with the new function:
2687 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2689 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2690 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2691 over all available filenames for a given message.
2693 New command-line features
2694 -------------------------
2696 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2698 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2699 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2700 access to the mail store itself.
2702 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2703 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2704 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2705 name of a script containing:
2707 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2709 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2710 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2716 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2718 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2720 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2722 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2723 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2724 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2725 now produces nothing).
2727 Emacs interface improvements
2728 ----------------------------
2730 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2732 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2734 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2736 Display current thread subject in a header line
2738 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2740 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2742 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2743 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2744 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2745 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2746 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2747 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2748 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2750 Vim interface improvements
2751 --------------------------
2753 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2755 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2756 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2762 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2764 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2765 ========================
2767 New command-line features
2768 -------------------------
2770 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2772 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2773 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2774 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2776 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2777 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2778 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2779 scripts. For example:
2781 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2782 <operations-on> "$file"
2785 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2787 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2788 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2789 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2790 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2791 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2792 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2794 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2796 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2797 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2798 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2799 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2801 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2803 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2804 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2805 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2806 default rather than Bcc.
2808 New library features
2809 --------------------
2811 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2813 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2814 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2819 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2821 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2822 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2823 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2824 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2825 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2826 notmuch customize interface.
2828 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2830 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2831 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2832 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2833 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2835 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2837 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2838 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2839 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2840 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2842 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2844 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2845 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2846 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2847 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2848 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2849 notmuch customize interface.
2851 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2853 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2854 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2855 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2856 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2857 notmuch customize interface.
2859 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2861 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2862 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2863 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2864 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2867 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2869 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2870 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2871 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2874 New build-system features
2875 -------------------------
2877 Various portability fixes have been applied
2879 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2880 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2881 more portable than ever before.
2883 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2885 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2886 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2887 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2889 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2890 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2891 automatically run ldconfig.
2893 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2894 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2895 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2897 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2898 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2899 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2900 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2902 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2904 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2905 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2906 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2907 used in the resulting Makefile.
2909 New test-suite features
2910 -----------------------
2912 New modularization of test suite
2914 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2915 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2916 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2917 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2918 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2919 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2920 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2921 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2923 New testing of emacs interface
2925 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2926 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2927 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2928 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2929 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2930 database via the FCC setting.
2935 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2937 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2938 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2939 persistent error of the form:
2941 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2943 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2944 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2946 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2948 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2949 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2950 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2952 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2954 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2955 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2956 parsing the notmuch results).
2958 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2960 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2963 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2964 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2965 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2970 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2972 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2973 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2974 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2975 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2976 the emacs interface.
2978 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2980 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2981 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2982 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2984 Python-binding fixes
2985 --------------------
2987 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2989 Debian-specific fixes
2990 ---------------------
2992 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2994 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2995 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2996 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2999 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3000 ==========================
3005 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3007 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3008 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3009 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3010 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3012 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3014 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3015 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3016 want notmuch to crash.
3021 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3023 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3024 directory does not exist
3029 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3031 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3032 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3034 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3035 ========================
3037 New command-line features
3038 -------------------------
3040 User-configurable tags for new messages
3042 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3043 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3044 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3045 to specify this value.
3047 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3049 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3050 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3051 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3053 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3055 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3056 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3058 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3060 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3061 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3062 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3063 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3064 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3067 Indication of author names that match a search
3069 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3070 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3071 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3072 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3073 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3074 messages in the thread are listed first.
3076 New: Python bindings
3077 --------------------
3079 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3080 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3081 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3082 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3084 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3085 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3086 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3089 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3090 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3091 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3093 Emacs interface improvements
3094 ----------------------------
3096 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3098 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3099 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3100 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3101 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3102 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3103 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3104 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3105 but without any of the disadvantages).
3107 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3108 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3109 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3112 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3113 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3114 instead running something like:
3116 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3118 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3119 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3120 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3123 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3125 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3126 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3127 tweaked by the user.
3129 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3130 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3131 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3134 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3135 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3136 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3139 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3141 This support currently relies on an external program,
3142 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3143 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3144 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3145 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3146 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3149 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3150 notmuch) is available via:
3152 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3154 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3155 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3156 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3158 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3160 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3161 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3162 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3163 making this automatic in a future release.
3165 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3167 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3168 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3169 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3170 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3171 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3172 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3175 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3177 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3178 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3179 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3181 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3183 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3184 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3185 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3187 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3188 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3189 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3190 other representation.
3192 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3193 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3196 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3198 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3199 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3200 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3202 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3203 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3204 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3206 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3208 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3209 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3210 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3211 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3212 to display the search result.
3214 More flexible handling of header visibility
3216 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3217 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3218 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3219 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3220 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3221 with the 'h' keybinding.
3223 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3224 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3225 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3227 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3229 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3231 Customizable formatting of search results
3233 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3234 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3235 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3237 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3239 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3241 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3246 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3248 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3249 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3250 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3251 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3257 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3259 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3260 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3262 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3264 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3265 accept are now all accepted.
3270 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3272 Better display of output from failed tests
3274 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3275 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3277 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3278 ========================
3280 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3281 detailed release notes this time!
3283 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3284 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3286 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3287 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3288 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3289 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3296 Better guessing of From: header
3298 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3299 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3300 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3301 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3302 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3305 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3307 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3308 guaranteed to match all messages.
3310 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3312 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3313 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3314 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3315 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3316 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3319 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3322 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3323 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3324 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3325 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3330 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3332 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3333 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3334 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3335 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3337 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3339 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3341 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3342 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3343 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3345 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3347 Previously, the user might see:
3349 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3353 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3355 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3356 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3357 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3358 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3360 Emacs client features
3361 ---------------------
3363 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3365 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3366 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3367 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3368 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3369 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3371 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3374 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3375 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3376 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3377 search with the '*' binding.
3379 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3381 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3382 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3385 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3387 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3388 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3389 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3391 Build-system features
3392 ---------------------
3394 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3396 Add support to configure for many standard options
3398 We include actual support for:
3400 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3402 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3404 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3405 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3407 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3408 separate "make install-emacs"
3410 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3412 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3413 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3414 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3416 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3419 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3420 ========================
3422 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3424 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3425 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3427 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3428 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3429 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3430 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3431 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3432 tags from messages in a thread.
3439 indent-tabs-mode: nil